Like Billie Holiday’s “Lady in Satin,” the riveting handmade jewelry pieces of local designer Clarissa Knighten resonate with strength and beauty forged under sustained intensity and pressure.
In 2016, a group of Black artists calling themselves the African American Artists Collective began meeting in Kansas City with the goal of supporting KC’s African American and Black artists on the local, regional and national levels.
Rashid Johnson is one of the most sought-after artists of his generation. In 2013 “Flash Art” magazine christened him a “post-black flower child” whose work coaxes viewers to come to grips with “complex historical reckoning.”
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