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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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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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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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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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Dr. Ndubuisi C. Ezeluomba serves as the Françoise Billion Richardson Curator of African Art at the New Orleans Museum of Art. Ezeluomba received a Ph.D. in Art History from the University of Florida, Gainesville, specializing in historic African shrines. Ezeluomba received his B.A. in Fine and Applied Arts from the University of Benin, and graduated from the University of Ibadan in Nigeria, where his master’s thesis focused on the contemporary Nigerian artist Obi Ekwenchi. #MuseumAtHome

For more on Dr. Ndubuisi's work, visit:
https://noma.org/exhibitions/ancestors-in-stone/

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Alexander Hernandez is a first generation Mexican America artist. He received his BFA (2007) in Painting and Drawing from Rocky Mountain College of Art & Design in Denver, CO and his MFA (2012) at California College of the Arts in San Francisco, CA in Studio Art. His current work ranges in mixed media with an emphasis in textiles. His work has been exhibited in Los Angeles, Brooklyn, Chicago, Denver, Baltimore and internationally in Australia, Canada and Latvia.

For more on Alex's work, visit:
Hernalex.com

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Marcela Torres received a BA in Sculpture Intermedia and a BFA in Art History from the University of Utah, continuing their studies in MFA in Performance form School of the Art Institute Chicago. Torres has performed at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Performances is Alive, Fringe Festival (Detroit, MI), Experimental Actions and Time Based Arts. Torres has exhibited work at the Green Gallery at Yale School of Art, Tropical Contemporary, and Petzel Gallery.

For more on Marcela's work:
http://marcelaetorres.com/

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Channing Kennedy is a stay-at-home dad and preschool storytime reader in Oakland, California. In recent years, Channing has worked in the nonprofit advocacy sector, both as a racial equity consultant for national arts groups and as a video producer for community organizations. He was also co-director of San Francisco Zine Fest, one of the country's oldest and largest DIY arts festivals.

Learn more about Channing's work here:
http://pleasehangoutwithme.com/

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Kale Roberts is an explosion of queer sportsing energy with a laundry list of identities that informs their practice as a performance artist and sculptor with a social practice. Blasting out of Tampa, FL, they activate SPACE in an art as life practice. One mouthful of the South, a dollop of blind fandom, and an abundance of misinformed history, they are dedicated to creating new rituals and objects imbued with humor and sincerity.

Learn more about Kale's work here:
Tailgateprojects.com
KaleRoberts.com

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