#Niama Safia Sandy

[bmoreart]

AFRO PASTS / AFRO FUTURES :: Black Magic: AfroPasts/AfroFutures by Angela N. Carroll

[jmarksthespots]

[#BLACKART #BlackArtstory] #CircleofTrust: A full-sensory performance art piece and healing experience  Curated by Niama Safia Sandy Part of the Black Artstory 2017 event series  Friday, February 24 | 6-9pm  During the Museum Hue 2nd Anniversary Reception, “Remember Our Rainbow”/ "A Seat At The Table," Brooklyn Navy Yard Center at Building 92 (a.k.a. BLDG 92) | Brooklyn, NY  Admission: FREE  To RSVP, visit circleoftrust.splashthat.com

On the evening of February 24, I'm debuting my first performance art piece, The Circle of Trust, as a The Circle of Trust is a full-sensory experience aimed at healing the physical and psychic trauma that many people are carrying around through metaphysics and performative arts centered in the modalities and rituals of the African Diaspora. 

Participants are invited to sing, cry, laugh, shout, or react however they see fit without judgement or any other impediments to true freedom from the varying degrees of aggression, oppression, and suppression people of color are faced with across the West.

The experience will feature the healing performance by local healers and artists from across the African Diaspora.  Vanessa Celestine (Healer, Celestine Apothecary & Healing) Danion Lewis (Dancer, Educator, Fitness & Life Coach)

The goal of The Circle is to renew the spirit and focus of participants in the perilous times we are living in.

Note: There will be sage and incense burned in the performance space to create an immersive and centering space; please be mindful if you have an aversion to smoke.

[brooklynmuseum]

Celebrate Black History Month and the opening of Jacques-Louis David Meets Kehinde Wiley at this weekend’s First Saturday. Organized in partnership with The Culture LP, the evening of joy features Common discussing the importance of mental and physical health in our communities, as well as activations by Topaz Jones, NVRSLEEP WORLDWIDE, Bri Blvck, HealHaus, Niles Luther, Niama Safia Sandy, and more! 

+ Starting at 5 pm, visitors should enter through the front of the Museum. Please keep in mind that there could be lines for entry, which may be limited once we reach maximum capacity.

[trascapades]

👩🏿‍💻🎙🎨#ArtIsAWeapon #VirtualArtistTalk The new African Diaspora Art Museum of Atlanta @adama_atl kicks off its Art Salon series today, March 29, 12:00PM EST featuring #artists @fahamupecou (ADAMATL Founder/ Executive Director), @bisabutler, @adamadelphine, #AlexisPeskine, moderated by @___niama___ Register: www.ADAMATL.org ______________________ "Introducing ADAMA Art Salon, an on-going series of conversations featuring contemporary artists from across the African Diaspora. LIVE Sunday March 29 at 12 noon (EST) featuring: Alexis Peskine (Paris) Bisa Butler (New Jersey) Delphine Fawundu (Brooklyn) Fahamu Pecou (Atlanta) Moderated by Niama Safia Sandy (Brooklyn) Our conversation will draw on each artist’s unique engagement with the historical and philosophical underpinnings of portraiture and representation of the Black figure in contemporary art. Join us for free using the Zoom app, Facebook Live or Youtube" "ADAMAArtSalon" #BlackArt #BlackArtists #ArtConversations #AfricanDiasporicArt #Atlanta #NewMuseum #VirtualArt #DistanceLearning #ArtLovers #BlackArtLovers #ArtCollectors #ContemporaryArt #BlackGirlArtGeeks🤓 https://www.instagram.com/p/B-UMgnIgCRl/?igshid=1fksb3q56xfre

[thequietlunch]

Hayley McCulloch talks with Danny Simmons.

[kwesiabbensettsgallery]

If you gonna be in Miami come find us ----- @Regran_ed from @spaniermanmodernmiami - You are cordially invited Friday 11-30-2018, 6-8pm to ‘An Experience of Color: Landscapes and Legacies’ Opening Reception at Spanierman Modern Miami (located at 151 NE 41st Street, #133, Miami Design District), with a complementary extension at the Spanierman Modern booth at Art Miami 2018.  A panel discussion “Time and Context” is scheduled for Monday, December 3, at 2:30 p.m. featuring the curator Niama Safia Sandy, Halima Taha, veteran art advisor and author of Collecting African American Art: Works on Paper & Canvas, and Rosie Gordon-Wallace of Diaspora Vibe Cultural Arts Incubator. #designdistrictmiami #paradiseplazamiamidesigndistrict #spaniermanmodernmiami #minimalism #miamiartcollectors #modernartcollectors #abstractexpressionism #midtownmiami #interiordesigner #artgallery #ar#collectmodernart #curatorialart #miami #miamidesigndistrict #miamidesigndistrictart #miamidesigners #miamiinteriordesign #miamiinteriordesigners #abstract @spaniermanmodern @miamidesigndistrict - #regrann (at Miami, Florida) https://www.instagram.com/p/BqpgvM_hh0C/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=fbsspiiafb8u

[bigbabarob]

#Repost @bsamconvention with @get_repost ・・・ BSAM D.C. 2018 #BSAMdc2018 Saturday, March 31, 2018, 10am - 5pm Howard University Blackburn Center Events 2397 6th St, NW, Washington, D.C. 20059 BSAM and CHILL :: DC #bsamandchillDC TICKETS::: http://BSAMdc2018.eventbrite.com http://BSAMandChillDC.eventbrite.com https://www.facebook.com/events/332878810455786/ Washington, D.C. - Black Speculative Arts Movement, aka BSAM, is an annual Afrofuturism, black comics, independent film, and arts convention held at multiple colleges and universities thruought the United States and abroad. Special guests include MECCAconIFF2018, Afrofuturism 2.0, Open World Comics, Niama Safia Sandy, TheOneWillFocus, Taji Mag, Dr. Baruch, Racial Justice NOW, The Brown Liquor Report, Bizhan Khodabandeh, 4THECULTURE founder Ahadi Ture, Colors in Darkness, I Mix What I Like - Emancipatory Journalism, and more. Our annual conventions, co-founded in 2016 by afrofuturism scholar, Reynaldo Anderson, and founder of Midwest Ethnic Convention for Comics and Arts - MECCA, Maia Crown Williams. They include participating and vending from a vast amount of comics, art, science fiction, and artisan creators and scholars and activists. Social activism, seminars, classes, workshops, plays, and much more have been included in various cities. Students are also welcome to submit proposals to participate as well. We also heavily encourage schools to attend in groups. Locations for BSAM and MECCAcon include St Louis, Detroit, Houston, Toronto, Montreal, Greece, Philadelphia, the Bronx, NYC, Los Angeles, Ghana, Berlin, Ottawa, Nova Scotia, and more. BSAM D.C. is honored to be hosting our very first event in D.C. at the historical HBCU, Howard University. If you are interested in moderating a panel, workshop, and/or lecture, or interested in your film being submitted to MECCAcon International Film Festival, please contact us today. Vending (limited) is also available, starting at only $75/table. Split tables start at only $100. For more information, please contact BSAM co-founder, Maia Crown Williams, 3134510297 BSAMstaff@gmail.com

[meccacon]

BSAM D.C. 2018 #BSAMdc2018 Saturday, March 31, 2018, 10am - 5pm Howard University Blackburn Center Events 2397 6th St, NW, Washington, D.C. 20059 BSAM and CHILL :: DC #bsamandchillDC TICKETS::: http://BSAMdc2018.eventbrite.com http://BSAMandChillDC.eventbrite.com https://www.facebook.com/events/332878810455786/ Washington, D.C. - Black Speculative Arts Movement, aka BSAM, is an annual Afrofuturism, black comics, independent film, and arts convention held at multiple colleges and universities thruought the United States and abroad. Special guests include MECCAconIFF2018, Afrofuturism 2.0, Open World Comics, Niama Safia Sandy, TheOneWillFocus, Taji Mag, Dr. Baruch, Racial Justice NOW, The Brown Liquor Report, Bizhan Khodabandeh, 4THECULTURE founder Ahadi Ture, Colors in Darkness, I Mix What I Like - Emancipatory Journalism, and more. Our annual conventions, co-founded in 2016 by afrofuturism scholar, Reynaldo Anderson, and founder of Midwest Ethnic Convention for Comics and Arts - MECCA, Maia Crown Williams. They include participating and vending from a vast amount of comics, art, science fiction, and artisan creators and scholars and activists. Social activism, seminars, classes, workshops, plays, and much more have been included in various cities. Students are also welcome to submit proposals to participate as well. We also heavily encourage schools to attend in groups. Locations for BSAM and MECCAcon include St Louis, Detroit, Houston, Toronto, Montreal, Greece, Philadelphia, the Bronx, NYC, Los Angeles, Ghana, Berlin, Ottawa, Nova Scotia, and more. BSAM D.C. is honored to be hosting our very first event in D.C. at the historical HBCU, Howard University. If you are interested in moderating a panel, workshop, and/or lecture, or interested in your film being submitted to MECCAcon International Film Festival, please contact us today. Vending (limited) is also available, starting at only $75/table. Split tables start at only $100. For more information, please contact BSAM co-founder, Maia Crown Williams, 3134510297 BSAMstaff@gmail.com (at Howard University Blackburn Center Events)

[swancon]

"Time is this really fluid thing. Now is now, but the past is now and the future too." - Niama Safia Sandy Our fab guests are talking about the future of futurism this week on their podcast, Our Opinions Are Correct. Check them out for a preview of the smart, fun conversation they'll be bringing to Swancon at Easter. Charlie Jane also spoke to our Australian guest Jonathan Strahan on the Coode St Podcast about her new book, The City in the Middle of the Night. We're so excited to meet our guests next month, and we hope you'll be joining us for the fun too! Watch this space for further Swancon 2019 announcements, and if you haven't already got your membership, what are you waiting for? The future is now, get a move on! Read our latest email here

[navigatingnewburgh]

Newburgh Peoples Chorus- Open Call ends June 15

Join the Newburgh Peoples Chorus- a collaborative community project organized by the Frederick Douglass Project and curator Niama Safia Sandy. Inspired by Newburgh's vibrant cultural heritage and rich church communities, this chorus is an action of remembrance, solidarity, and empathy through music. We are calling all Newburgh citizens - no matter your level of musical ability and talent - to participate in the project. We ask that community members come together in song to model joy and unity with our neighbors! Sign up at http://bit.ly/NPChorus or email us  at frederickdouglassnb@gmail.comFirst meeting of strangers will be Saturday June 15th at 1pm. Address will be for those who RSVP. To learn more or to repost it to your friends and community click here: https://www.facebook.com/events/2334067083583813/

[cohesiveeclectic]

Bidding for this print by #DikeBlair who has a solo show up at @karmakarma9 Karma Gallery in the LES is underway on @paddle8 ! Come check out and bid on this work and others at the @nurtureart silent auction + benefit on November 28 ! Party with me and other Co chairs @lauraa.burtonn , @thetcb , @cornerdeliellie , Ian Cofre , Niama Safia Sandy as well as president of @nurtureart @ckh7ckh7 and many more ! https://www.instagram.com/p/BqaI3LOlENN/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=78ryoz4hmwd

[smackmellon]

Dialogues on Transnational Curatorial Practice

Wednesday, July 25th 6 to 8pm RSVP

Dialogues on Transnational Curatorial Practice presents five conversations between CEC ArtsLink’s International Arts Leadership Fellows and No Longer Empty Curatorial Lab Curators (NLE Lab Curators) on socially-engaged artistic and curatorial practices featuring Data Chigholashvili, Georgia; Eva Mayhabal Davis, USA; Sarah Fritchey, USA; Jordan Greenberg, USA; Maria Ivanov, Moldova; Mary Kay Judy, USA; Eva Khachatryan, Armenia; Lera Lerner, Russia; Niama Safia Sandy, USA; and Lilia Voronkova, Russia. In each conversation, an Arts Leadership Fellow will present a single project in discussion with a NLE Lab Curator.

The Fellows are practicing artists, curators ,and researchers who address pressing social issues in their countries with a focus on socially-engaged art projects, social science, the urban environment, and collaborative, site- and community-responsive methodologies. NLE Lab Curators participated in the No Longer Empty Curatorial Lab program, a socially conscious platform for experimentation in curating and a professional development program for emerging curators interested in direct experience curating in an expanded field.

[damaliabrams]

Opening this Saturday at Central Library in Jamaica, Queens! Join NLE Curatorial Lab and Queens Library for the opening of the exhibition "Notations in Passing" as part of the inaugural Southeast Queens Biennial: "A Locus of Moving Points." The Biennial continues at York College Fine Arts Gallery through April 21, 2018. Location: The Central Library of Queens Library; 89-11 Merrick Blvd., Jamaica, Queens  On view: Saturday, March 3 – April 21, 2018 Opening reception: Saturday, March 17, 2-4 pm Directions: F to 169th St. Hours: Monday - Thursday, 9:00am - 9:00pm; Friday, 9:00am - 7:00pm; Saturday, 10:00am - 5:00pm; Sunday, 12:00pm - 5:00pm Artists: Salimah ALi, Ify Chiejina Artist, Damali Abrams the Glitter Priestess, Reneé Harper, Corona Johnson, Rejin Leys and Lisa D. Wade. The inaugural Southeast Queens Biennial "A Locus of Moving Points" is the culmination of the 2017 No Longer Empty Curatorial Lab (NLE Lab) and is curated by: Sarah Fritchey, Corrine Y. Gordon, Rebecca Pristoop, Niama Safia Sandy and Anastasia Tuazon. The Biennial is organized in partnership with York College Fine Arts Gallery and Queens Library. Image on flier by Salimah Ali. (at Queens Library)

[mikeysmethods-blog]

Your Brief And Far-Out Guide To Afrofuturism

Full post over on tuthillscopes.com

Your Brief And Far-Out Guide To Afrofuturism

“Time is that this really fluid factor. Now’s now, however the past has become and also the future too.”&nbsp This is the way curator and anthropologist Niama Safia Sandy describes the main concept of Afrofuturism, a cultural aesthetic mixing aspects of sci-fi, magical...

[trascapades]

🎨#ArtIsAWeapon #NewExhibit "Alternating Currents"

on view at @fridmangallery

July 14-August 20, 2021.

169 Bowery #NYC 10002

http://www.fridmangallery.com

Reposted from @fridmangallery:

Alternating Currents is an exhibition of new works by Allana Clarke, Evan Paul English, Adama Delphine Fawundu, Kearra Amaya Gopee, Basil Kincaid, Ashanté Kindle, Yashua Klos, Hiu Ching Leung, Rob Redding, Marcelo Eli Sarmiento, Nyugen Smith, and Khari Turner.

Curated by Niama Safia Sandy @___niama___ , the exhibition explores recent breakthroughs of the artists’ respective practices over the last year-and-a-half. The works reveal a pursuit of a sense of connection to something larger — to history, to cultural heritage, to traditional notions of art making — and sometimes a desire to break from it.

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Allana Clarke (@allanaclarkestudios )

Evan Paul English (@evanpaulenglish )

Adama Delphine Fawundu (@adamadelphine )

Kearra Amaya Gopee (@kearramaya

Basil Kincaid (@basilkincaid

Ashanté Kindle (@ashantekindle)

Yashua Klos (@yashuared)

Hiu Ching Leung (@_leunghiuching_)

Rob Redding (@smearpainting)

Marcelo Eli Sarmiento (marceloelistudio)

Nyugen Smith @bundlehouse

Khari Turner (@khari.raheem)

#AlternatingCurrents #GroupExhibition #ArtExhibit #BlackArt #BlackArtCurators #ArtLovers #ArtAndTheCity #TraScapades #BlackGirlArtGeeks

#contemporaryart #fridmangallery

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