#Sexypink/notes

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How loyal do you want to be to a telling of the story that cares little for, and even actively erases people like yourself? - Rodell Warner

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Sexypink - come to de Yard!

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Sexypink -Botero is an Artist whose work I have enjoyed for decades. I used to think that his sculptures came from the age of Futurism when I was a teenager. I was surprised when I realized that he was very much still working. Rest in peace Fernando Botero. The joie de vivre he brought to his corpulent people was way ahead of the body positive movements today. Thank you.

added note: Botero did not only produce plump people, he expanded the nature of cats, objects and food as well.

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Sexypink - (detail) Kathie St. Hilaire - collage

Sexypink - Caco- Benoit Batraville (2023) Oil based relief on canvas, collage with skin lightening cream, steel, aluminum, bank notes, banana stickers, silkscreen and tires - 55’’ x 63.5”

Sexypink - Kathie St. Hilaire (detail)

Sexypink - Mamita Yunai (2023) Oil based relief on canvas, collage with skin lightening cream, steel, aluminum, bank notes, prices tags, banana stickers, silkscreen and tires.

71” x 66”

Haitian American Artist Kathie St. Hilaire - more here -:leaflet.perrotin.com

Sexypink - Kathia St. Hilaire - Kanekalon - (2018) Oil based relief collage on canvas with kanekalon braided hair

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Sexypink - Round 1 is now open for the Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation!

The deadline to submit Concept Notes is January 15, 2024

To view full details on this grant and how to apply visit:

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Sexypink - So thought provoking, so relevant. What a read!

Addedum: https://sta.uwi.edu/fhe/sites/default/files/fhe/ebook%20UWIFHE%20HumansAndAI%202023%20%281%29.pdf?fbclid=IwAR3a8HRvTx1IOoSqMhm8wjX_oyPsPbzGCcPgwXt-s7uJZ8xyEJqs2US9QMs

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Sexypink - Bunty O ‘Connor - Stations of the Cross

From her Facebook page -  I was commissioned to make the Stations of the Cross some time around 2012 for this tiny little church in Tobago. I used clay and fired by the Raku method. 

The calabash theme is used to contain the images, as Luise Kimme had painted Jesus being baptized with a calabash.

 Luisa had decorated the interior of the Church with many beautiful carved wooden panels as had other artists, with alterpieces, baptismal font and light fixtures to portray the beatitudes. Alas it is falling into rack and ruin today, despite my approaches to some of the Anglican Church fathers and the TT Heritage people. Some very dodgy alterations are going on and pieces have been broken and lost.

Sexypink - This personal note on her work in Tobago is a reminder to take Artistic effort like this more seriously.

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Sexypink - Created by Barbadian Sculptor Ricky George commemorating the Father of Independence the Right Honorable Errol Walton Barrow (1920-1987)

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A 9ft tall bronze statue weighing 2000lbs was erected in Independence Square to pay homage to Sir Errol Walton Barrow, the father of Barbados' Independence. It was sculpted by a St. Lucian sculptor Ricky George and was unveiled on Errol Barrow Day, Sunday January 21st, 2007.

Born January 21st 1920, Errol Barrow was the last Premier and first Prime Minister of Barbados. His political career lasted 36 years up until his death in 1987. During this time he was able to affect great social and economic changes in Barbados.

He is credited with the implementation of free education, school meals services, improved health care  the introduction of a National Insurance and Social Security Scheme and a host more achievements.

Along with the statue, Sir Errol Barrow is remembered by a public holiday, his likeness on the $50 note and he is one of Barbados' National Heroes.

https://www.gobarbados.org/errol-barrow-statue/

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“What if we take the energy of the 70s and use it to think about climate change?” he says. “There’s a type of grief we haven’t processed on 1970, and grief for our climate crisis. It’s a holy call, because the environmental D-Day is supposed to be coming in 2030.”

Robert Young - Designer

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Castro and Guevara romped around the bucolic green acres while their official photographer snapped publicity shots. As they played, they realized that the grounds of the country club were spectacular, and they knew they had to do something with the property. There, with golf clubs in hand, they decided they would build an art school.

99% invisible

Castro and Guevara golfing and discussing a Cuban Art School

The Instituto Superior de Arte

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“I feel that I’m working on the skin of the culture and I’m making incisions.”

Lorraine O’Grady

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The year was 1976.

Musical poet Cheryl Byron became the first woman to perform her own original brand of poetry in a calypso tent in Trinidad.

Shw went to become a pioneer of the rapso genre.

Byron was a painter, poet, dancer, singer and social and cultural advocate.

She studied dance in Trinidad with Neville Shepard and acted with Slade Hopkinson's Caribbean Theatre Guild.

While on tour in New York City, Byron's artwork won her a scholarship to the New School University, where she studied fine art. She would obtain a Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts degrees in English from City College (CUNY).

She became a professor at Medgar Evers College and the College of New Rochelle in Brooklyn, New York. She also taught at City College and New York City Technical College

While living in Brooklyn, Byron studied dance with Pearl Primus and became a member of the Primus Borde Earth Theater. She then became Primus's special assistant, accompanying her on her numerous teaching and choreography assignments, including with the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater.

At home in Trinidad, Byron was a pioneering performer of rapso and dub poetry. Considered the Mother of Rapso, she was inspired by the artistry of Lancelot "Kebu" Lane.

According to Rhythms of the Afro-Atlantic World: Rituals and Remembrances by Mamadou Diouf, "Cheryl Byron's poetic performances made visible by the female acts of anticolonial resistance that were carried out in religious and spiritual practice."

Byron was an ordained Reverend Mother in the Spiritual Baptist faith.

Byron founded Something Positive, a New York City-based performing arts and education organisation dedicated to preserving the art and culture of the African Diaspora and its cross-cultural influences.

Established in 1981, the ensemble of dancers, singers and musicians performs an original repertoire both nationally and internationally.

Cheryl Byron died in New York on June 17th, 2003, at the age of 56.

Her vision lives on as Something Positive Inc. continues its work under the artistic direction on Byron's longtime protegé, Trinidad-born Michael Manswell.

In 2012, Something Positive Inc. released VISION, a compilation of Cheryl Byron’s music.

An exhibition in her honour closes today (January 1st, 2017) at the Brooklyn Public Library, Caribbean Literary & Cultural Center.

From the Facebook page of Dominic Kalipersad

https://store.cdbaby.com/cd/cherylbyron

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Culture is not only beneficial to cities; in a deeper sense, it’s what cities are for. A city without poets, painters and photographers is sterile.

-Rebecca Solnit

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Caribbean Art Initiative is an independent, non-commercial program fostering the development of arts and culture across the Caribbean region.

The Caribbean Art Initiative is an independent, non-commercial program and network that is working to foster the development of arts and culture across the entire Caribbean region, raising awareness and promoting dialogue worldwide.

Mission: Focus of the Caribbean Art Initiative is on the arts and culture of the entire region, including artists working internationally in the Caribbean diaspora. We seek to place Caribbean art and artists in open and active dialogue with artists and art institutions around the world.

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Children of Las Brisas | Official Trailer | Independent Lens | PBS

SEXYPINK - A must see emotional tribute to excellence against unspeakable odds.