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WOULD YOU BUY MY ART?
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January 29, 2026 at 7:17 AM
lizzlebadd.bsky.social
Another great year of Black art and culture. It’s only up from here!
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November 29, 2024 at 5:29 AM
mdstamper.bsky.social
“Jazz Dancers” by Aldonia R. Bailey (American) - Acrylic on canvas / Possibly 1974 - San Bernardino County Museum (Redlands, California) #WomenInArt #AldoniaBailey #Bailey #BlackArt #AfricanAmericanArt #JazzArt #DanceInArt #BlackRenaissance #art #artText #arte #WomensArt #WomanArtist #WomenArtists
American artist Aldonia Bailey described “Jazz Dancers” as showing dancers “swaying to the music” while people enjoy jazz in Central Park. Rather than isolate a single performer, she makes collective movement the painting’s subject as six women seem linked by an invisible beat, their repeating postures carrying the eye across the canvas like notes in a melodic line. Bailey’s saturated color, simplified forms, and energetic brushwork privilege atmosphere and memory over strict realism. The six Black women sweep diagonally across a vivid green lawn, their bodies leaning backward and sideways as though caught in the same musical phrase. Bailey dresses them in long, brilliantly patterned pink, blue, yellow-green, orange, and deep red skirts paired with pale sleeveless tops, jewelry, and hair ornaments. Their elongated poses turn movement into rhythm so arms bend, shoulders tilt, and skirts flare as the dancers sway together. Behind them, small pavilions painted in pink, blue, and white punctuate a park filled with loosely rendered figures. Tall palms and dense trees frame a glowing yellow-orange sky, giving the scene the warmth and bustle of an outdoor summer festival. This is jazz experienced through motion, community, and pleasure. The work also participates in a long tradition of Black artists representing music and dance as spaces of creativity, social connection, and cultural continuity. Bailey, a Louisiana-born artist long active in Southern California, has repeatedly returned to jazz, dancers, family, and Black everyday life throughout her practice. Her inscription appears to date the painting to 1974, which would make it an unusually early work in her career. The painting appeared in the San Bernardino County Museum’s 2026 exhibition Black Renaissance, where its exuberant celebration of Black music, movement, and communal life resonated with the exhibition’s dialogue between the legacy of the Harlem Renaissance and contemporary Black creativity.
October 8, 2026 at 7:40 PM
lizzlebadd.bsky.social
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November 18, 2024 at 1:19 PM
lizzlebadd.bsky.social
#BlackRenaissance #BlackAesthetic #BlackExcellence #BlackHistory #BlackFutures #AllBlackEverything #BlackSky #HBCUSky
November 23, 2024 at 10:08 PM
drehillart.bsky.social
Another day, another newsletter. Tap in 💚📚 lmk your thoughts.
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Black Arts Renaissance
The need for diverse, nuanced artists and stories in black spaces
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June 27, 2025 at 1:15 PM
flomm.us
charles w. white
‘surrealist brawl’ poster
1937

~ artist interview: aaa.si.edu/collections/interviews/oral-history-interview-charles-w-white-11484

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#chicago
“surrealist brawl” artist party poster chicago artist union at tsoukalas studio 218 s. wabash ave april 3 9:00 pm cheap at 49¢ sizzling rhythm / fun and how!
November 13, 2025 at 5:22 AM
wrathwriterx.bsky.social
White people stole the word, like many things, from Black people and corrupted it like everything before. #woke belongs to us and no one else. Stop stealing! Get your own swag and vibe. #BlackRenaissance
klyph10.bsky.social Clifton Kelly @klyph10.bsky.social · Apr 10
So sick of hearing Dems blame "woke" for losing in 2024. Throwing POC and LGBTQIA+ communities under the bus isn't going to win back the uneducated whites who are salty that the 1950s ended. That ship has sailed.
April 10, 2025 at 2:14 AM
parispasrose.bsky.social
Des films #BlackPanther, #GetOut ou #Moonlight aux séries #Atlanta, #IMayDestroyYou, #Insecure, #Pose ou #WhenTheySeeUs en passant par #Lemonade de Beyoncé et #ToPimpAButterfly de Kendrick Lamar… les 25 œuvres clés de la #BlackRenaissance selon TIME.
The 25 Defining Works of the Black Renaissance
From blockbuster hit 'Black Panther' to Beyoncé's visual album 'Lemonade'
time.com
July 25, 2025 at 12:12 AM
rahknotrock.bsky.social
An ode to none other than Queen Erykah Badu, scheduled to hit subscriber's inboxes at 10:10am (12 hours). I hope yall enjoy this one! I was just having fun celebrating my art mama. 😆 #linkinbio

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Cover art for poetry series with poem title: "Playlist (For Ms. Badu)"
May 24, 2025 at 2:43 AM