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#ArtOffPause Adrian Nduma
Adrian Nduma is a painter and founder of Bonzo Art Gallery in Nairobi, Kenya. His work depicts African wildlife, scenery, and people through acrylics on canvas. He realized that he was best suited for a career in art after he worked as a teacher, for an advertising agency, and as graphic designer. He registered his gallery in 2014, and has worked as an artist full-time ever since. Adrian has exhibited in Kenya, Dubai, Zanzibar, and China.
See Adrian’s work here: adriannduma.co.ke
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#ArtOffPause Dr. Bimbola Akinbola
Bimbola Akinbola is an interdisciplinary scholar and artist based in Chicago. Working at the intersection of visual and performance art, her creative work is concerned with black bodies in leisure, the complicated and nagging nature of belonging, queer worldmaking, and African diasporic nostalgia. Bimbola has a PhD in American Studies from the University of Maryland and is currently the Black Arts Initiative Performing Arts Fellow at Northwestern University, where she will begin her position as an assistant professor of Performance Studies next Fall.
See Bimbola’s work here: https://www.bimbolaakinbola.com/
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#ArtOffPause Live Stream
I’m hosting the #ARTOFFPAUSE livestream to stay connected as we look ahead. Our arts institutions are “on pause” to stop the spread of COVID-19, but creativity is continuing. We’ll check in daily with artists, curators, and scholars about their suspended or upcoming projects. We (maybe) can envision what the future might bring after this crisis.
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#ArtOffPause Tammy Johnson
Tammy Johnson shares her online work supporting communities of color through dance. Johnson is a dancer, producer, culture keeper, writer, equity consultant and godmother extraordinaire. For 15 years Johnson and Etang Inyang performed as the award-winning duet Raks Africa, and co-directed Girls Raks Bellydance and Body Image program. Johnson and Andrea Sendek currently coproduce Cirque Arabesques, a show inspired by Egypt’s national circus and community celebrations. Her solo work, Aiwa! was featured at Eastside Arts Alliance, she was the recipient of Deborah Slater’s Studio 210 Residency Program, and she performed as part of ChimaTEK: Hybridity Visualization Mandala, a piece created by artist Saya Woolfalk. As an independent consultant she has successfully brought somatics and artistic wisdom to the fore with groups like The Laundromat Project and the Young Women’s Freedom Center. Johnson co-produced “Colorlines: Race and Economic Recovery” with LinkTV, and has written for the Christian Science Monitor, The Huffington Post, and Colorlines.com. Learn more here: https://www.tjuniverse.com/
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#ArtOffPause Kevin Seaman/LOL McFiercen
Kevin Seaman discusses toxic masculinity, drag culture and #femMASCULINE in San Francisco. Kevin Seaman / LOL McFiercen is an interdisciplinary performance artist and cultural worker exploring queer identity and drag culture at the intersection of gender and sexuality. They received the 2017 Americans for the Arts Emerging Leader Award, were named one of SF Weekly’s 16 Artists to Watch in 2016, and participated in the APAP Inaugural Leadership Fellows Program. They recently premiered their first evening-length solo piece, #femMASCULINE, while in residence at Brava Theatre Center in San Francisco, and continue to uplift feminist ideals within gay and queer masculine communities. For more on Kevin’s work:
LOL’s U&U Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySn2btARuCI
Drag Alive STUD Show on Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/dragalive
Queer Masculinities FB Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/226019378519129/
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