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#BlackHistoryMonth spotlight on #ArtistActivist #BennyAndrews

🖼Images & ✍️🏾caption reposted from @acagalleries Benny Andrews’s (1930-2006) longstanding history with ACA Galleries is a testament to our commitment to amplifying the voices of impactful artists from all backgrounds, without exception. This Black History Month, we honor Andrews not only for his exceptional artwork but for his activism that challenged injustice and advocated for marginalized communities. From his debut solo exhibition at ACA in 1972 to his later works focused on civil rights, migration, and social justice, Andrews’s art was a catalyst for change. His legacy continues to resonate, demonstrating the lasting impact of art in driving change.

This Black History Month, we invite you to explore the extraordinary work of the artists ACA Galleries has had the privilege of working with. Their contributions continue to challenge, inspire, and redefine the cultural narrative.

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📧 inquiry@acagalleries.com⁠

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Benny Andrews image details:

1. Fun #2 (Miss Josie Series), 2002

2. Dancing Duet (Miss Josie Series), 2002

3. Cabin in the Sky (Music Series), 1996

4. Blues Over Harlem (Musical Interlude Series), 1998

©️Estate of Benny Andrews, Images courtesy of ACA Galleries

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#ACAGalleries #Paintings #AmericanArt #Art #BlackGirlArtGeeks #BHM

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#Repost @trascapades ・・・ 🦹🏿‍♀️🦸🏿#ArtIsAWeapon @schomburgcenter's 9th Annual Black Comic Book Festival, Jan. 13-16, 2021. See full schedule and register for #SchomCom2021 @eventbrite www.schomburgcenter.eventbrite.com (link in their BIO). Reposted from @schomburgcenter Get ready for the Black Comic Book Festival! It’s back for a ninth year and reimagined as a four–day virtual celebration. Events include a tribute to actor @ChadwickBoseman, a workshop with illustrator Tim Fielder, the launch event of John Jennings's Megascope imprint, and more! Click on the link in our bio to register. #SchomCom2021 is from Jan. 13-16. #SchomburgCenter #BlackComicBooks #BlackIllustrators #VirtualFestivals #BlackComics #BlackSuperheroes #TraScapades #BlackGirlArtGeeks https://www.instagram.com/p/CJ_QSAVhqyb/?igshid=bqp6icdv7mhy

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🎨#ArtIsAWeapon @cultured_mag featured fearless artist @asherald and master musician @jonbatiste for its Winter 2024 Artists on Artists issue. Photo by @danascruggs.

Image and caption reposted from @cultured_mag This winter, CULTURED presents our inaugural Artists on Artists issue. An ode to unfettered creativity, bold experimentation, and collaboration, this edition includes a trio of cover conversations between figures—from filmmakers to painters and musicians—who are committed to illuminating our strange, uncertain moment...

It’s been a busy year for the history-making painter and musician. Amy Sherald just opened “American Sublime,” her mid-career survey and largest exhibition yet, at the @sfmoma; while Jon Batiste returned to his classical roots with his recent album “Beethoven Blues,” which presents modern renditions of the canonical composer’s works.

Despite their sweeping impacts on contemporary culture, both artists—shot by @danascruggs in Sherald’s New Jersey studio—are careful to protect the delicate filament, that “pure thing,” at the heart of their work. “When you’re in that flow state, sometimes you forget how you got to the end result. I feel like a vessel. I work hard so I can then be in the moment like a kid,” Batiste tells Sherald. “It’s like a trance,” the painter adds. “The ideas come, and I do what I’m told.”

To read the full conversation between Amy Sherald and Jon Batiste and [order] your copy of the Artists on Artists issue, head to the link in bio.

Amy wears a dress by @gabrielahearst, earrings by @davidyurman, and bracelets and a ring by @vancleefarpels. Jon wears a suit, shirt, and tie by @ysl; ring by @cartier; and shoes by @louboutinworld. Additional jewelry is musician’s own.

Editor-in-Chief: @sarahgharrelson

Photography: @danascruggs

Styling for Amy Sherald: @carlocatastrophe

Styling for Jon Batiste: @jasonrembert

Casting for Batiste: @specialprojectsmedia

Hair for Sherald: @myssmonique

Hair for Batiste: Jenna Robinson

Makeup for Sherald: @laramiemakeup with @dayone__studio

Grooming for Batiste: Jesse Lindholm

Production: @missdionnenyc

#AmySherald #JonBatiste #BlackArtists #CulturedMagazine #BlackGirlArtGeeks

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📚#ArtIsAWeapon Reposted from @blackwomeninvisualart 📚 Art Books + Black Women for Winter/Spring/Summer 2024 - newly released, preorder, or coming soon. ▶️ Swipe for more and feel free to comment below what other titles should be on our list!

📖 Black Artists in America: From Civil Rights to the Bicentennial - The second book in a three-volume series on Black American artists, featuring work from the 1950s to the 1970s that responded to the cultural, political, and social concerns of the era. Authored by Earnestine Lovelle Jenkins #earnestinelovellejenkins, Alaina Simone @alainasimone.inc , Celeste-Marie Bernier #celestemariebernier

📖 The Art of Remembering - art historian and curator Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw @professorshaw explores African American art and representation from the height of the British colonial period to the present.

📖 Grime, Glitter, and Glass: The Body and the Sonic in Contemporary Black Art (The Visual Arts of Africa and its Diasporas) - In Grime, Glitter, and Glass, Nikki A. Greene @nikkigphd examines how contemporary Black visual artists use sonic elements to refigure the formal and philosophical developments of Black art and culture. 

📖 Mickalene Thomas: All About Love - Texts by Beverly Guy-Sheftall @bevshef, Claudia Rankine @claudiarankine, Renée Mussai @mussairenee and more. This major survey publication further affirms Thomas’ status as a key figure of contemporary art. The book also covers her distinct visual vocabulary, drawing on themes of intergenerational female empowerment, autobiography, memory and tenets of Black feminist theory. 

📖 Surrealism and Us: Caribbean and African Diasporic Artists since 1940 - How modern and contemporary artists across the African and Caribbean diasporas transformed European Surrealism into a tool for Black expression. by Maria Elena Ortiz @contemporarychica with contributors Annette K. Joseph-Gabriel @annettejosephgabriel , Negarra A. Kudumu @negarraakudumu Ashley Stull Meyers @ashleyontheinternet and more.

Click on there profiles or search the titles to ADD these to your bookshelves!

#artbooks #bookshelf #blackwomeninart #blackart #BlackGirlArtGeeks

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Reposted from @darrenwalker A groundbreaking exhibition “Entangled Pasts”at @royalacademyarts. Featuring an arresting installation by @tavaresstrachan “The First Supper (Galaxy Black)” in the courtyard of Burlington House (listen to the hustle and bustle of Piccadilly in the background). Bravo @axelruger @arthistorianbyday @ablackhistoryofart Sarah Lea, Prof. Cora Gilroy-Ware, Dr. Esther Chadwick on an inspiring and intelligent show!

#yinkashonibare #karawalker #johnakomfrah #hewlocke #issacjulien #lubaniahimid #soniaboyce #frankbowling #TheFirstSupper #WillTravelForArt #BlackGirlArtGeek

H/t @shansimp

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#NewExhibition

AṢẸ: AFRO FREQUENCIES - an immersive, multimedia Afro-surrealist art experience featuring works by digital artist @vincefraser and spoken word artist @urucker - opens March 22, 2024 at @artechouse #NYC 📍439 W 15th Street

www.arttechhouse.com

🎥 reposted from @artechouse 🚨 ANNOUNCING #AseAfroFrequencies is coming next to #ARTECHOUSENYC. 👑✨

Inspired by ase, the Yoruba concept relating to our power to produce change, Ase: Afro Frequencies celebrates the Black experience through the perspectives of artist Vince Fraser and poet Ursula Rucker. Starting 3/22, tickets are available now through the link in our bio. #ARTECHOUSENYC #ARTECHOUSE

Tickets and Details: www.artechouse.com/program/ase-afro-frequencies-nyc/

Bold, beautiful, powerful; step into this vibrant Afrosurrealist exhibition, featuring the work of London-based Afro-surrealist digital artist Vince Fraser along with poetry and spoken word by ursula rucker.

The spirit of aṣẹ — a powerful affirmation and philosophical belief held by the Yoruba people of West Africa, meaning “so will it be” — reverberates throughout this vibrant and meditative exhibition. Everyone should experience this immersive story of resilience, cultural celebration, and the possibility of the future.

“This exhibit serves not only as art but as a call to action in many ways — to collaborate, to uplift one another, to learn and to progress.” — Essence

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ARTECHOUSE is the nation’s first innovative art organization dedicated to the intersection of art, science and technology. As a pioneer in the field of experiential art, it creates, produces and presents innovative technology driven exhibitions, expanding the possibilities of art and how we experience it.

#AfroSurrealism #AseAfroFrequencies #ase #Yoruba #VinceFraser #UrsulaRucker #BlackArtists #BlackGirlArtGeeks #AfroFuturism

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🎨⚖️#ArtIsAWeapon Congratulations to all the Gordon Parks Foundation Art & Social Justice Award honorees @kaepernick7 @mickalenethomas #MyrlieEversWilliams @aliciakeys @therealswizzz!

Reposted @gordonparksfoundation We are excited to announce the honorees at our annual Awards Dinner and Auction on MAY 21, 2024, held at Cipriani 42nd St. in NYC: Athlete and activist COLIN KAEPERNICK; acclaimed mixed-media artist MICKALENE THOMAS; civil rights activist and former Chairman of the NAACP, MYRLIE EVERS-WILLIAMS; widow of civil rights activist MEDGAR EVERS. Additionally,;15-time Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter, musician, producer and actress ALICIA KEYS and Grammy Award-winning producer, rapper, and songwriter KASSEEM DEAN (aka SWIZZ BEATZ) will be recognized as Patrons of the Arts. We will also have a special tribute to RICHARD ROUNDTREE, who starred in Parks’s groundbreaking 1971 film SHAFT, highlighting the enduring cultural influence of the film on both cinema and music. Link to purchase tickets in bio.

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#GordonParksFoundationGala #GPF #Gala24 #ArtsandSocialJustice #AliciaKeys #SwizzBeatz #ColinKaepernick #RichardRoundtree #MyrlieEversWilliams #MickaleneThomas #Shaft #BlackGirlArtGeeks

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ᴡɪʟᴅ ꜱᴛʏʟᴇ 40

ᴄᴜʀᴀᴛᴇᴅ ʙʏ ᴄᴀʀʟᴏ ᴍᴄᴄᴏʀᴍɪᴄᴋ

closes at the @jeffreydeitchgallery this Saturday, January 13th with a special celebration featuring the legendary @therealgrandmastercaz from 6PM-8PM.

📍Jeffrey Deitch Gallery

18 ᴡᴏᴏꜱᴛᴇʀ ꜱᴛʀᴇᴇᴛ #NYC

Reposted from @jeffreydeitchgallery 𝐖𝐢𝐥𝐝 𝐒𝐭𝐲𝐥𝐞 𝟒𝟎, 𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐂𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐨 𝐌𝐜𝐂𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐢𝐜𝐤

This exhibition beings together over 20 artists to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Charlie Ahearn ( @twincharlie )’s seminal film ‘Wild Style’🔥

In the words of the curator Carlo McCormick-

“While ‘Wild Style 40’ is in many ways a celebration of the graffiti art form that emerged out of this time and starred in the movie, it is centered within a broader circle of participation, including key figures from Colab, who were also forging new kinds of urban art, artists who were major supporters and benefactors of graffiti, the photographers who not only captured this movement but embodied it, and a few who have somehow carried these traditions with an authenticity and ingenuity that goes beyond what hip hop sounds like or graffiti looks like today.”

Participating artist include-

Charlie Ahearn @twincharlie

John Ahearn @jahearnart

Janette Beckman @janettephoto

Fred Brathwaite (Fab 5 Freddy) @fab5freddy

Cathleen Campbell

Henry Chalfant @henrychalfant

Joe Conzo @joeconzo

Martha Cooper @marthacoopergram

Jane Dickson @janeinpeepland

Brian Donnelly (KAWS) @kaws

Chris Ellis (Daze) @dazeworldnyc

Sandra Fabara (Lady Pink) @ladypinknyc

Aaron Goodstone (Sharp)

Eric Haze @erichazenyc

John Matos (Crash) @crashone

Leonard McGurr (Futura) @futuradosmil

Osgemeos @osgemeos

Phase 2

Lee Quinones @leequinones

Rammellzee @therammellzee

Revolt @drrevoltrtw

Don White (Dondi)

Andrew Witten (Zephyr) @zephyrgraffiti

Martin Wong

Don't miss your chance to experience this electric show maxed out with pioneering artists before it closes this Saturday. The gallery is opened each day from 12-6PM.

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Artist: Nathaniel F. Austin @artby_nateaustin

Artwork: “Amiyah” (3ft. X 4ft.) acrylic on canvas

www.artbynfa.com

Image and caption reposted from @artby_nateaustin “Stand up straight and realize who you are. That you tower over your circumstances. You are a child of God. Stand up straight”

-Maya Angelou

I’ve found so much beauty in growth lately. Growth can be painful and uncomfortable but ultimately unavoidable. How then, can we make the most of it? By standing up and pressing through, knowing that there is power and beauty in the end result.

Children often are the greatest models for how we should approach growth. They are eager and excited for the next step in life. When you’re looking for inspiration look to them. Then, stand up straight.

#artoftheday #artoninstagram #paint #paintings #Blackartists #dopeartist #art #dopeblackart #BlackGirlArtGeeks

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CONGRATULATIONS BISA!

Reposted from @bisabutler No entertainment on earth can match a good story compellingly told

- #OctaviaButler (1947-2006)

This is history being made! This is the first time a portrait of an African American woman, created by an African American woman, curated by an African American woman and purchased by an African American collectors collective has been entered into the permanent collection of the #NationalPortraitGallery.

This story begins with me in 1993 reading Imago by Octavia Butler in the library at the National Portrait Gallery while I was a student at #HowardUniversity .

The library was a refuge of calm and a place where I could dream and aspire. The words of Octavia Butler allowed me to imagine a world beyond my reality- through the eyes of a Black woman.

It was serendipity to be asked by The New York Times to create a portrait for the cover of the Arts and Leisure section and the gorgeous photo by @alice_a2studio captivated me.

Then fate shined on me again when my Howard sister #RheaCombs, the chief curator at The National Portrait Gallery asked if the portrait was available.

I said yes immediately and she reached out to the Black Commissioners and Collectors group for financial support and as it goes the money was raised in 17 minutes!

I want to send a huge thank you to Curator Rhea Combs, and Director Kim Sajet. Thank you to the collective ; Taylor and Wemimo Abbey wemsabbey ; Sol Aponte @solaponte and Jennia Fredrique Aponte @jenniafredrique ; Mahari Y. Bailey @mahariyared, Esq.; Lyndon J. and Janine Sherman Barrois @srbarroislyndon ; Ingrid Best @ms_ibest ; Devin W. Blackburn, Esq.; George Fatheree @fathereeleeo and Azita Fatheree; Kenneth T. Little; Nike Opadiran; Ayesha D. Selden @ayeshaselden .

Thank you Sheryll Cashin and Marque Chambliss for hosting!

Thank you to my home team @johnnyjbutler_ and @ehubbs37 for always being there and giving 1000%. You are so appreciated.

**there is zero paint on this artwork

Patternmaster, 2022

Cotton, dutch wax,silk, wool, lace, beads and glitter vinyl

Quilted and appliquéd

24” x 30”

#bisabutler #quilting #artwork #octaviabutler #fiberart #BlackArtists

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“𝕋𝕙𝕖 𝕞𝕠𝕤𝕥 𝕚𝕞𝕡𝕠𝕣𝕥𝕒𝕟𝕥 𝕥𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕘, 𝕥𝕠 𝕞𝕖, 𝕚𝕟 𝕝𝕚𝕗𝕖 𝕚𝕤 𝕚𝕟𝕤𝕡𝕚𝕣𝕒𝕥𝕚𝕠𝕟. 𝕀 𝕨𝕒𝕟𝕥 𝕥𝕠 𝕚𝕟𝕤𝕡𝕚𝕣𝕖 𝕠𝕥𝕙𝕖𝕣𝕤 𝕒𝕟𝕕 𝕀 𝕨𝕒𝕟𝕥 𝕥𝕠 𝕓𝕖 𝕚𝕟𝕤𝕡𝕚𝕣𝕖𝕕.” - #ArtistActivist #FaithRinggold @faithringgold, my hero!

🎥 and caption reposted from @jeffreydeitchgallery 🤩 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒗𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒐 𝒔𝒂𝒚𝒔 𝒊𝒕 𝒂𝒍𝒍 🤩

Growing up during the Harlem Renaissance, Faith Ringgold took inspiration from the city, her neighbors and the culture around her to create her 𝓈𝑒𝓃𝓈𝒶𝓉𝒾𝑜𝓃𝒶𝓁 portfolio 🎶🎺🎨

Now, Ringgold’s works are in the 𝚙𝚎𝚛𝚖𝚊𝚗𝚎𝚗𝚝 𝚌𝚘𝚕𝚕𝚎𝚌𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗 of museums like @guggenheim , @themuseumofmodernart and @whitneymuseum to name a few 😎😎

We are happy to share a clip from #Androiddevelopers showcasing Ringgold’s 𝒷𝓊𝒷𝒷𝓁𝓎 personality and 𝒾𝓃𝑔𝑒𝓃𝓊𝒾𝓉𝓎 (the video celebrates the artist’s mobile app, ‘Quiltuduko’) 💛🤳💛

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Excerpt from @AARP #DisruptAging:

"I have made so much art, and now Quiltuduko is my thing. It’s an art-making app that uses color and design — images instead of the number system of Sudoku. It’s a workout that requires memory and focus, and keeps that brain functioning — for young and old alike. Plus, it’s fun, and you have a piece of art to show for it. I have more than 60 diagrams now, and the themes are based on faces, angles, swirls. I can’t stop making them."

See the full story: www.aarp.org/disrupt-aging/video-disrupt-aging/info-2017/faith-ringgold-quiltuduko-video.html

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🖼Image: Say Her Name - Sandra Bland, 2020

🎨Artist: S.A.W. @iamsawart

📍Location: 75 John Wesley Dobbs Ave NE Atlanta Ga

This mural memorializes Sandra Bland, who died while in police custody 8 years ago today (July 13, 2015). Thinking of her mother and sister, who continue their fight for #JusticeForSandraBland

Reposted from @naacp_ldf Today marks [eight] years since Sandra Bland’s death. Sandra Bland was a 28-year-old civil rights activist who was taken into custody by former Texas Trooper Brian Encinia for an alleged traffic violation. The encounter escalated when the Trooper tried to yank Sandra Bland out of her vehicle for smoking a cigarette and pointed a stun gun in her face threatening to “light her up.” Encinia had initially claimed that Bland assaulted him. He was ultimately charged with perjury since his own dash cam proved that to be untrue. Three days after the arrest, Sandra Bland was found hanging in a Waller County Jail cell. The officers who falsified monitoring logs and claimed they checked in on Bland an hour before she was found hanging were quietly moved to other law enforcement roles. What exactly happened to Sandra Bland still largely remains a mystery and no one has been held accountable for her death.

#SandraBland #SayHerName #BlackLivesMatter #PublicArt #Mural #QueensMural #BlackGirlArtGeeks #NeverForget

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🔥 Reposted from @djreborn I love the opportunity to be in public discourse with fellow artists about our process, practice and praxis. Come check out the conversation about the brilliant @wangechistudio work and her connection to music with yours truly @sanfordbiggers @toschoon @sharpwhitebackground @margotnorton and maureenmahon Today May 20th 3pm

From #Afrobeat to #Afrofuturism, explore the unique combination of African diasporic music and #WangechiMutu’s artistic practice with Mutu x Music – an afternoon of conversations with curators and musicians on Saturday, May 20 at 3 p.m. at @newmuseum.

“Wangechi Mutu: Intertwined” co-curators Vivian Crockett (@sharpwhitebackground) and Margot Norton (@margotnorton) will kick off the afternoon in conversation with Trevor Schoonmaker (@toschoon), Director of the Nasher Museum, to reflect on the twentieth anniversary of Mutu’s “Yo Mama,” a large-scale collage work celebrating the life and activism of Fela Kuti’s mother, Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti. Scholar and catalog contributor Maureen Mahon will also moderate a panel discussion on the political charge of African and diasporic music genres from 1970s Afrobeat to contemporary Hip Hop, featuring artist Sanford Biggers (@sanfordbiggers) and musician DJ Reborn (@djreborn).

Event information and ticketing:

[https://www.newmuseum.org/calendar/view/1913/mutu-x-music-afrobeat-hip-hop-funk-and-the-art-of-wangechi-mutu]

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#Artist: @siphesihle_ntsungwana #Artwork: “SHOW ME” 2023

Acrylic on canvas 21 x 29,7 cm

Images /caption reposted from the artist -(LIKE, SAVE, COMMENT, SHARE ❤️)

Commissions open! Comment “commission” and I’ll DM you my price list ✨

#siphesihlentsungwa

#selfportrait #painting #paintings #acrylicpainting #oilpainting #blackart #blackartists #BlackLove #BlackGirlArtGeeks

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❤️🖤💚#ArtIsAWeapon Happy Black History Month!!!!

Image & caption reposted from @brooklynmuseum “I have never cared too much what people say. What I’m interested in is what they do.” – #ShirleyChisholm

During the next Brooklyn Talks on February 20, we’re reflecting on the legacy of Congresswoman Chisholm, who represented New York's 12th congressional district in Bed–Stuy for seven terms from 1969 to 1983.

We’ll be joined by artist Bisa Butler (@bisabutler), cultural producer Barbara Bullard (@barbaramgmt), and curator Stephanie Sparling Williams (@ssparlingwilliams).

Following the event, get after-hours access to Toward Joy: New Frameworks for American Art where you can see Butler’s quilted portrait of Chisholm up-close.

Learn more and save your spot through the link in our bio.

📷 200th Birthday Bash at the Brooklyn Museum, October 5, 2024. (Photo: Evan Angelastro)

#BkMTalks #BkMAmericanArt #BisaButler #BrooklynMuseum #BlackHistoryMonth #ShirleyChisholm

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Happy Black History Month from #Artist @brandonbarrybrown

📹 @nijahdiane

🎶 @kendricklamar - "GNX"

#BlackArt #BlackArtists

#BlackGirlArtGeeks