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ARTNOIR began in 2013 with a collection of friends who detected the loss of diversity in global art. “Art is a device for social replenishment and yet seeing a really varied crowd at world art parties is very rare.” said Folake Ologunja, who has been a component of ARTNOIR’s networks since its inception. They piled up to stumble into the myriad of openings and art parties that circulate all over the world, to learn, unite and help each other. ARTNOIR members are a mix of art lovers, patrons, creditors, artists, traders, curators and other art professionals who sought not only to shape the painting of other Americans of color in global art, but also keep other Americans of color in art. . World. According to Ologunja, they want to “percentage access and galvanize our help to come with art lovers and color creditors to build a more inclusive and equitable global art.” NOW ARTNOIR is an official non-prohave compatibility organization with programming that incorporates visits from artists, workshops, conferences, exhibitions, meetings and more.
Through July 8 at 5pm EST, ARTNOIR is holding ARTNOIR From: Friends To: Friends Benefit Auction 2020, an auction on Artsy to benefit the ARTNOIR Jar of Love Fund, to provide relief for artists, curators, and cultural workers of color. “ARTNOIR has worked tirelessly over the past seven years to be an agent of change that helps in catalyzing cultural equity across the arts and culture industries,” said co-founder and curator Larry Ossei-Mensah. “These unprecedented times of uncertainty and unrest have had an adverse impact on our community. As an organization based on the foundation of community first, we want to do our part to provide relief, love and care for artists, curators and cultural workers of color when they need it most. The unrestricted grant is designed to help remove some of the burden of thought and free up mental and spiritual capacity to continue creating and collaborating in strength.”
ARTNOIR From: Friends To: Friends Benehave Compatibility Auction 2020 introduces the virtuous best friend 30 artists of color who portray the Black delight in their portraits, adding Fhatuwani Mukheli, Tiffabig apple Alfonseca, Marisol Martinez, John Rivas and Flo Ngala. “The community is an integral component of the portraits we do as an organization,” said Nadia Nascimento, co-founder of ARTNOIR. “All artists who have made a direct decision to collaborate with us in this auction are components of our netportrays. They believe in THE assignment of ARTNOIR and the goal of the Jar of Love Fund. In addition, we have been given a public relations send with one an alterlocal and continue to cultivate this continuum of mutual support. So whether we’ve lectured, a studio trip or exhibited their portraits on our platforms, this artists option represents what happens once you invest in people, in art and have confidence and respect.”
The works at the auction are as varied as the artists; The geometric abstraction of Martinez’s transbide in social observation with melanocytes that use other skin tones as shape colors, with a black circle and a white circle as a focal point. Girl Talk by Alfonseca shows a collection of four women socializing in golden sequins against a pink background. On June 16, 2019, Mukheli portrayed a tender black boy reading about Soweto Upemerging in South Africa, four3 years after some 20,000 academics fought for their right to education in English, before facing police brutality.
“Black artists and creativity have been the root of cultural production, not only in the United States, but also around the world. We have made a point of honor to raise, celebrate and teach our communities in this fact,” Ossei-Mensah said. “For a long time, black artists have not earned their just respect and now that they have reached a tipping point, it has become essential to honor the paradigm shift. By incorporating black artists and the black art ecosystem, we follow the path to justice, liberation and equity for all.
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I am a publishing house founded in Brooklyn that covers everything in the box of normal life: it is the best friend of art and fashion, but also of travel, beauty, design and gastronomy. I travel all over the world to discern the influence of culture on people’s lives, whether through an art fair, a museum exhibition or a cutting-edge product, and then I bring my observations. I want to open people’s eyes to goods they can’t see otherwise. I’ve reported on global art that it has infiltrated Silicon Valley, interviewed the world’s most influential people, and I’ve seen amazing works of art. I write for publications that come with Daily Beast, Monocle, Marie Claire, Interview, Fashionista, The Manual, the Business of Fashion, T, W, ARTnews, Al Jazeera America, Fast Company, The Economist and more. See the global through my eyes on Instagram and Twitter on @annbinlot.