Blacklivesmatter 1 the Art Galleries at Tcu Stand in Solidarity with People of Color Seeking Social Justice and Equality
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ORGANIZATIONS, ARTISTS, AND RESOURCES LIST #BLACKLIVESMATTER 1 THE ART GALLERIES AT TCU STAND IN SOLIDARITY WITH PEOPLE OF COLOR SEEKING SOCIAL JUSTICE AND EQUALITY. WE ARE COMMITTED TO WORKING WITH A DIVERSE RANGE OF ARTISTS, INCLUDING THOSE WHO EXPOSE RACISM AND ABUSES OF POWER. WE ARE DEDICATED TO PROVIDING A PLATFORM FOR STUDENTS, FACULTY AND STAFF TO TALK ABOUT RACE, VIOLENCE AND PRIVILEGE. 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS BLACK ARTISTS 4 TEXAS ARTISTS 5 ARTISTS WHO HAVE SHOWN AT TCU 9 MORE ARTISTS 10 BLACK-OWNED BUSINESSES AND SUPPORT 14 FOOD & DRINK 15 NIGHTLIFE & ENTERTAINMENT 25 RETAIL 26 HEALTH & BEAUTY 27 SERVICES 28 RECREATION & CULTURE 29 BLACK-OWNED BOOKSTORES (ONLINE) 30 DFW ORGANIZERS & RESOURCES 32 NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS 34 DFW LAWYERS & BAIL 35 FUNDING SUPPORT 36 QUEER & TRANS ORGANIZATIONS 39 DISABILITY ORGANIZATIONS 40 PHOTOGRAPHY ORGANIZATIONS 41 ART-FOCUSED ORGANIZATIONS SUPPORTING BLACK ARTISTS, THINKERS, AND MAKERS 43 MEDIA 45 BOOKS TO READ 46 CHILDREN’S BOOKS, COMICS, AND GRAPHIC NOVELS 48 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS 50 WEB COMICS 51 CULTURAL RESOURCES FOR STUDENTS TO EXPLORE 52 ARTICLES TO READ 53 PHOTOGRAPHY SPECIFIC ARTICLES 54 VIDEOS TO WATCH 55 PODCASTS TO SUBSCRIBE TO 56 FILMS & TV SERIES TO WATCH 57 BLACK DOCUMENTARIES 58 ORGANIZATIONS TO FOLLOW ON SOCIAL MEDIA 61 MORE ANTI-RACISM RESOURCES 62 BLACK ARTISTS TEXAS ARTISTS Taylor Barnes Vicki Meek Austin Dallas Barnes lives and works in Austin, Texas Meek, a native of Philadelphia, recently receiving her MFA in Fibers from Pennsylvania, is a nationally recognized the University of North Texas. She has artist who has exhibited widely. Meek exhibited in solo exhibitions at Erin Cluley is in the permanent collections of the Gallery, Dallas, TX and 500X Gallery, African American Museum in Dallas, The Dallas, TX. Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, and Norwalk Community College in Norwalk, @barnes_artistry__ Connecticut. @vickimeek365 Michael Ray Charles Austin Jeremy Biggers Born in Lafayette, LA in 1967, he went Dallas on to earn his BFA from McNeese State Dubbed “Dallas’ Hardest Working University and his MFA from the University Multi-Hyphenate” by D Magazine, from of Houston. His work has been both drawing to painting to graphic design critically celebrated and the source of to photography to film making, Jeremy controversy, and in 2001 Charles was the Biggers has been involved with image subject of an Art:21 short documentary. making his entire life. He attended Booker T. Washington High School for Sonseree Gibson – Austin // @ the Performing and Visual Arts where he rungurlrun primarily focused on expression through graphite and charcoal drawing. Riley Holloway Dallas @stemandthorn Holloway is best known for his dynamic work and fresh look at figurative art. His J.D. Moore images are often accompanied by text Dallas and other personal references embedded Born and raised in Dallas, Texas, James within the work. Douglas Moore III, commonly known as “J.D.”, has been working as a full @hollowayfineart time, Dallas/Fort Worth based, visual artist since 2013. He competed a tattoo Chelsey Antionette apprenticeship at Last Angels Tattoo in Dallas Dallas, Tx under Gerald Garcia, in 2013 and Antoinette is a native Texan who arrived continues to tattoo clients at Last Angels in North Texas back in 2010, temporarily to this day. settling at Denton while working on her M.F.A at the University of North Texas, @jdmooreportfolios and has been a part of the Dallas art community as an educator and artist Lauren Woods since 2013, planting roots in Oak Cliff. Dallas Woods is a multimedia artist whose @cantoinettestudios hybrid media projects—film, video and sound installations, interventions and site-specific work—engage history while contemplating the socio-politics of the present. @laurenwoods56 5 TEXAS ARTISTS Jer’Lisa Devezin Murielle White Dallas Dallas A native of New Orleans, Jer’Lisa Devezin Murielle White was born and raised in grew up in the Lower Ninth Ward. Paris, France. She moved to Tampa, Having taken an interest in the arts at Florida where she graduated with her an early age, she was placed in the BFA in painting and drawing from the Gifted and Talented Visual Arts program University of South Florida in 2006. She in elementary and secondary schools, has shown her work in New Orleans, the continuing her studies in art during her Tampa Bay and the Dallas areas, and has high school years. Jer’Lisa entered Dillard participated in many juried competitions University as a visual arts major, where and group exhibitions. She also displayed she began to develop her interest in a solo show at Dallas Contemporary and working with mixed media and continued Stella Jones Gallery in 2010. Murielle’s to establish her artistic vision. work thoughtfully examines and articulates her multicultural identity in a @_jerlisa_ unique way. Spencer Evans @murielle_white Dallas Evans is a native of Houston, Texas. He Annette Lawrence earned his Bachelor’s degree in fine art Denton from the University of Missouri in 2009 Annette Lawrence’s studio practice is with an emphasis in drawing and painting characterized by transforming raw data and earned an MFA from the University of into drawings, objects, and installations. Texas at Arlington. The data accounts for and measures everyday life. Her subjects of inquiry @spencerevans_art range from body cycles, to ancestor portraits, music lessons, unsolicited mail, Brionna Watkins and journal keeping. Dallas Watkins (b. 1997) is born and raised Madelyn Sneed-Grays in Waco, TX. She earned her BFA in Denton Photography from the University of Sneed-Grays is a representational painter North Texas in 2019. Her work is based born in Dallas, TX. She received her B.F.A in photography, but incorporates at the University of North Texas and is varied materials - a few being fibers, currently working on multiple series that textiles, and polymers - most often relate to the diversity of cuisine and the taking on an installation or sculptural cultural climate in America. presentation. Motivated by her family and faith, she explores identity, black or @artworkbymadelyn African American culture, and shared experiences. Through their combinations, Austin Uzor she depicts personal stories of her own Denton and those with whom she collaborates. Born in the eastern part of Nigeria in the year 1991, Austin Uzor hails from Imo @brionnanwatkins state. He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts in 2013 from the University of Nigeria Nsukka where he majored in drawing and painting. Shortly after graduation he kickstarted a studio practice which led to local and international recognition that set the groundwork for his first ever solo show in 2016 titled “Visitors” at the Rele gallery in Lagos, Nigeria. @austin.uzor.7 6 TEXAS ARTISTS Christopher Blay Jamal Cyrus Houston Houston Blay is an artist, writer and curator with Cyrus is a visual artist who lives and works a B.F.A. from Texas Christian University in Houston. He received his BFA from the in Fort Worth. He has worked as curator University of Houston in 2004 and his MFA for the Art Corridor Galleries at Tarrant from the University of Pennsylvania in County College Southeast for the past 2008. In 2005 he attended the Skowhegan ten years. He has been a contributor to School of Painting and Sculpture. Glasstire since 2016, beginning with a Glasstire artist-in-residency that year @jamal.cyrus under the name of his onetime alter ego, Frank Artsmarter. Trenton Doyle Hancock Houston @artist_c_blay Hancock was born in 1974 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Raised in Paris, Texas, Jonathan Paul Jackson Hancock earned his BFA from Texas Houston A&M University, Commerce, and his MFA Jackson is a visual artist from Houston, from the Tyler School of Art at Temple Texas. He works in all mediums of University, Philadelphia. Hancock’s prints, art, including painting, sculpture and drawings, and collaged-felt paintings work illustration. At the age of 11, he completed together to tell the story of the Mounds—a his first large-scale painting, and by the group of mythical creatures that are the age of 16, he was showing in coffee shops tragic protagonists of the artist’s unfolding in the Houston area. Jackson has some narrative. Each new work by Hancock is formal education in art, but is mostly self- a contribution to the saga of the Mounds, taught. portraying the birth, life, death, afterlife, and even dream states of these half- @j.paul_jackson animal, half-plant creatures. Rick Lowe @trenton_doyle_hancock Houston Lowe is a Houston-based artist and Sedrick Huckaby community organizer, whose Project Fort Worth Row Houses is considered an important Huckaby was born in 1975 in Fort Worth, example of social-practice art. In 2014, Texas. His formal education in art start- he was among the 21 people awarded a ed at Texas Wesleyan University in Fort MacArthur “genius” fellowship. Worth, where he studied with two excel- lent painters-Ron Tomlinson and Jack @ricklowe2222 Barnett. He then transferred to Boston University (BFA, 1997), where he received extensive academic training in studio art. Tierney Malone For graduate studies, he went to Yale Uni- Houston versity in New Haven, Connecticut (MFA, Malone is a modern-day storyteller 1999). who creates works on paper and mixed media constructions. He uses the canon @huckabystudios of African-American history and pop culture to help him create contemporary tales about life. By invoking colorful and emotionally charged figures from jazz, sports and literature, Malone makes powerful and sensitive works that are both visually beautiful and politically provocative. @tierneymalone 7 TEXAS ARTISTS Letitia Huckaby Rita Jo Sanders Fort Worth Fort Worth Huckaby began her artistic career at the @chevalios age of four, when her parents started her in dance classes. She studied Ballet, Tap, Michael Darough Jazz, and Modern dance until the age of Waco eighteen, and was selected to participate Darough graduated from the University of in the prestigious Oklahoma Arts Institute Memphis, earning an MFA in photography two years in a row.