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Curtis Patterson is a world-renown sculptor whose large-scale works invite participation and curiosity. https://www.blackartserenbe.org/jurists daily 0.75 2021-10-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f6c6bfa8333a5f1e42fe20/1633293154372-PQEVTA9MVVNWAHUAHY1U/Picture1.png Jurists https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f6c6bfa8333a5f1e42fe20/1633293344735-CSJCL6TFEPNPXJ2D779K/pic+5.png Jurists https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f6c6bfa8333a5f1e42fe20/1633293392506-MMYHVXA9OQCHC1VNBHUP/pic4.png Jurists https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f6c6bfa8333a5f1e42fe20/1633293443202-RATJ8LKO5PIH3OGUW5J8/pic5.png Jurists https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f6c6bfa8333a5f1e42fe20/1633293619430-65NTNURE06C74TE2OH3C/pic7.png Jurists https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f6c6bfa8333a5f1e42fe20/1633293680328-JJDWNNVC8BS1QLFJFYNG/pic8.png Jurists https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f6c6bfa8333a5f1e42fe20/1633901359484-6MWCYH311VWMF2N2QKTL/unnamed.jpg Jurists https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f6c6bfa8333a5f1e42fe20/1633917001169-VNSDW97RKH11I4QNPQRI/arl+weithers+photos0002.jpeg Jurists https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f6c6bfa8333a5f1e42fe20/1634409556574-MVOJUYLR2CSWDNAMS7JY/IMG_1108.jpeg Jurists https://www.blackartserenbe.org/the-project daily 0.75 2021-08-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f6c6bfa8333a5f1e42fe20/1627572569712-TXR7D63D90ZHYQXK1QA2/priscilla-du-preez-xy0JBTQlRuY-unsplash.jpg About - Backstory Like communities across the country last year, Serenbe felt the impact of George Floyd's murder. You could read about it on our Facebook pages, see it in the signs and flags that went up around the neighborhood, and hear about it in conversations everywhere. That moment spurred a group of residents to explore what part Serenbe had to play in a national racial reckoning, and to ensure that we turned what we learned into lasting positive change for our community. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f6c6bfa8333a5f1e42fe20/1627572026290-2DO24SKQSFKHF6G7VXHB/bob-osias-qxnKmvB07wU-unsplash.jpg About - The Project As a way to affirm Serenbe’s culture and shared values, this art project will serve as a visual and intentional declaration of welcome and affirmation to visitors and residents who identify as Black. Our hope is that while elevating and supporting Black artists, this project will open up our cultural space and spark curiosity and dialogue about the Black experience in Serenbe. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f6c6bfa8333a5f1e42fe20/1627571924462-P8OSFF5F2AJ4MF0EOYTH/jurien-huggins-b_XgP4vM47E-unsplash.jpg About - Why Black and Why Now? The Public Black Art Project is meant to be intentional in affirming more than traditional White aesthetics and messages such as looking to the past for inspiration, how “people used to live” in “the good old days.” Inclusivity and welcoming require cultural signposts such as diverse public art in our space https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f6c6bfa8333a5f1e42fe20/1627571815575-G4MUJNJBPBK5YG1A3RZZ/IMG_4255.jpg About - Community Collaborative at Serenbe Community Collaborative at Serenbe is a 501c3 organization created exclusively to identify and accomplish high impact initiatives for the continuous improvement of the hamlet known as Serenbe and its surrounding community. https://www.blackartserenbe.org/get-involved daily 0.75 2021-08-08 https://www.blackartserenbe.org/get-involved-1 daily 0.75 2021-07-27 https://www.blackartserenbe.org/project daily 0.75 2021-11-11 https://www.blackartserenbe.org/community-collaborative daily 0.75 2021-07-28 https://www.blackartserenbe.org/resources daily 0.75 2021-08-02 https://www.blackartserenbe.org/supporters daily 0.75 2026-02-12 https://www.blackartserenbe.org/about-page daily 0.75 2021-10-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f6c6bfa8333a5f1e42fe20/1628440516288-G6F7F2D2I00W1DRK3D1Z/unsplash-image-mD9K4NiSqrM.jpg About - The Project Our hope is that while supporting Black artists, this project will open up our cultural space and spark important, community-wide dialogue. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f6c6bfa8333a5f1e42fe20/1633898778582-1OVINWB1A2HV43KUTT1W/IMG_4325.jpeg About - The Artists “The role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don't see.” - James Baldwin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f6c6bfa8333a5f1e42fe20/1633898893108-53I888LLE8KT9E3NP7MS/IMG_5877.jpg About - The Jurists The Public Black Art Committee at Serenbe selected an independent jury to ensure a fair selection process for the commissioned work. Our jurists include visual artists, an expert on biophilia, academics, curators, a collector and dealer of African American art, individuals with prior experience jurying public art and community residents who understand Serenbe’s values. The jury will be supported by the Fulton County Public Art Conservator. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f6c6bfa8333a5f1e42fe20/1627934993031-IDBGEDM97QYYOVTIUIVA/IMG_4255.jpg About - Community Collaborative at Serenbe Community Collaborative at Serenbe is a 501c3 organization created exclusively to identify and accomplish high impact initiatives for the continuous improvement of the hamlet known as Serenbe and its surrounding community. https://www.blackartserenbe.org/community-letter daily 0.75 2021-08-06 https://www.blackartserenbe.org/tina-dunkley daily 0.75 2021-10-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f6c6bfa8333a5f1e42fe20/1633902067892-J22W274XG2O99WRP3T0G/unnamed-1.jpg Dr. Tina Dunkley - Dr. Tina Dunkley Tina Dunkley’s service in the arts includes 35 years as Curator and Director of the Clark Atlanta University Art Galleries. Daughter of West Indian parents and granddaughter of Jamaican artist John Dunkley, whose work hangs in Kingston’s National Gallery, Tina Dunkley has maintained a professional career as an artist throughout her tenure as an arts administrator, curator, writer, and educator. Inspired by the struggles of African descendants displaced throughout the Western Hemisphere, her work explores the experience and politics of denial that informs much of the history of the Americas. She has stated that her work is “influenced by the full-circle recognition of her ancestors’ journey through slavery five generations ago.” Tina’s Awards have included Atlanta Printmakers Studio Emerging Printmaker Artist-in-Residency (2017), Women’s Caucus for Art Lifetime Achievement Award, (2014), and a Travel Grant to Pernambuco, Brazil, from the Georgia Partners of the Americas (2001), among others. Tina’s work can be found in collections at the High Museum of Art, Nexus Contemporary Arts Center (Women’s Walk), Marriott Marquis Hotel, Delta Airlines, Hartsfield Airport, Hyundai, AT&T, IBM, Atlanta Life Insurance Company, Hammonds House Art Galleries, Thacker Construction Company, Georgia State Art Collection, And Fulton County Arts Council. She has also danced with Katherine Dunham’s troupe and is a talented songstress. Don’t worry about sounding professional. Sound like you. There are over 1.5 billion websites out there, but your story is what’s going to separate this one from the rest. If you read the words back and don’t hear your own voice in your head, that’s a good sign you still have more work to do. https://www.blackartserenbe.org/penelope-mcphee daily 0.75 2021-10-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f6c6bfa8333a5f1e42fe20/1633902557601-O18H0XTYBGJA67AODV05/unnamed.jpg Penelope McPhee - Penelope McPhee Penelope McPhee is the President Emeritus of The Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation, where she served as president from 2004 until her retirement in February 2021. Prior to moving to Atlanta, Penelope served as vice president and chief program officer of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation in Miami, FL, from 1996 to 2004, leading grant-making programs of the nearly $2 billion foundation. A national leader in the arts, she joined Knight Foundation in 1990 and launched its national Arts and Culture Program. Penelope has had a distinguished career as an author and television producer. Her television documentaries and performance programs have won five Emmys, as well as prestigious awards from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and the National Association of Television Program Executives. For seven years she was on the staff of WPBT, Miami’s public broadcasting station, where she launched its cultural affairs department and served as executive producer of cultural programming. During that period, Penny served on the board of Miami-Dade County’s Art in Public Places Program. She is also a noted author whose pictorial history of the civil rights movement, “Martin Luther King Jr. A Documentary: Montgomery to Memphis,” was recognized in 1980 as one of the “Best Books of the Decade” by the American Library Association. Her 1986 book, “King Remembered,” received the New York State Martin Luther King Jr. Medal of Freedom. https://www.blackartserenbe.org/jerry-thomas daily 0.75 2021-10-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f6c6bfa8333a5f1e42fe20/1633917040807-GGDI56AUL2UORM2VYT4Q/arl+weithers+photos0002.jpeg Jerry Thomas Jr. - Jerry Thomas Jr. Jerry Thomas Jr., Esq. is an art dealer and consultant for original investment quality African and African American art. He has been featured in network broadcast television and written media. In addition to giving presentations to the National Black MBA Association Annual Conference on investing and collecting African American art in 2005; he was quoted in the Los Angeles Times in 2005; and in 2006, was quoted in BusinessWeek Magazine and the London Stock Exchange regarding the investment potential of significant African American art. As a practicing attorney, he handled cases involving nationally renowned collectors/dealers and art institutions. As a result of this involvement, his life-long interest in African American and African art was transformed into a passion for the scholarly, business-professional and investment aspects of the visual arts. “Art is a way of thinking and expression. The way an artist interprets her environment and what she seeks to express is almost necessarily a function of the artist’s individual experiences which in turn is a derived from the culture or cultures from which the artist belongs or has been exposed." https://www.blackartserenbe.org/kevin-sipp daily 0.75 2021-10-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f6c6bfa8333a5f1e42fe20/1633902978622-4OMJJI64J7E0USRYN3VM/unnamed-2.jpg Kevin Sipp - Kevin Sipp Kevin Sipp currently works as the Project Supervisor for Gallery 72, a Municipal Art Space for the City of Atlanta Mayor’s Office of Cultural Affairs. Gallery 72 is dedicated to presenting stimulating and thought-provoking contemporary art and programs that focus on advancing Atlanta’s art offerings. Gallery 72 seeks to promote cutting-edge contemporary art while extending opportunities to artists and art organizations to explore creative expression and compelling ideas. Kevin is also a fine artist, independent scholar, writer, and curator with expertise in printmaking, painting, sculpture and multi-media installation and poetry. His fine artworks have appeared in solo and group exhibitions throughout the country and internationally. His aesthetic focus examines the spiritual, socio-political, and historical influence of African-derived culture in the world, often making references to African and world mythologies, Afro-Futurism, Cultural Identity, Colonial History, past and contemporary music forms, and comic book culture. Kevin is a public speaker who has lectured audiences at venues such as Brandeis University, Emory University’s Michael C. Carlos Museum, The High Museum of Art, University of Cape Town South Africa, arts festivals and comic book conventions. As a featured poet he has shared the stage with such luminaries as Amiri Baraka, Sonia Sanchez, Saul Williams and the poets of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe. https://www.blackartserenbe.org/kelli-morgan daily 0.75 2021-10-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f6c6bfa8333a5f1e42fe20/1633903135616-7G5PIL07EC4561CA5SFF/unnamed-3.jpg Dr. Kelli Morgan - Dr. Kelli Morgan Dr. Kelli Morgan is a Professor of the Practice and the inaugural Director of Curatorial Studies at Tufts University. A curator, educator, and social justice activist who specializes in American art and visual culture, her scholarly commitment to the investigation of anti-blackness within those fields has demonstrated how traditional art history and museum practice work specifically to uphold white supremacy. Dr. Morgan has held curatorial positions at the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields, the Birmingham Museum of Art, and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. She has held teaching positions at the Tyler School of Art and Architecture at Temple University, Wayne State University, and the University of Michigan where she merged the classroom and the museum gallery to create various anti-racist paradigms for how curators can actively address the complexities of traditional art history, community engagement, and scholarly innovation. In 2014, Morgan was awarded a dissertation fellowship from the Ford Foundation and earned her Ph.D. in Afro-American studies and a graduate certificate in public history–museum studies from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2017. https://www.blackartserenbe.org/dr-phill-tabb daily 0.75 2021-10-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f6c6bfa8333a5f1e42fe20/1633903471598-WLESYZTY0GFW94XHZPE6/unnamed-4.jpg Dr. Phill Tabb - Dr. Phill Tabb Dr. Phill Tabb is a Professor of Architecture at Texas A&M. He created the master plan for the wellness community Serenbe. His publications include Biophilic Urbanism: Designing Resilient Communities For the Future published by Rutledge, Solar Energy Planning published by McGraw-Hill, The Greening of Architecture: A Critical History and Survey of Contemporary Sustainable Architecture and Urban Design, Serene Urbanism: A Biophilic Theory and Practice of Sustainable Placemaking and Coedited Architecture, Culture and Spirituality published by Ashgate. Phill teaches studio design, sustainable architecture, and the theory of placemaking, and he is a practicing urban designer and licensed architect. He has been a long-time member of the American Institute of Architects and holds a NCARB certificate. Phill lives in Serenbe where various galleries have exhibited his watercolors, sketches and architectural drawings. https://www.blackartserenbe.org/wanda-hughes daily 0.75 2021-10-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f6c6bfa8333a5f1e42fe20/1633903627962-F6SOBUJT79ZXFJH268XG/unnamed-5.jpg Wanda Hughes - Wanda Hughes After moving to Serenbe in 2015, Wanda’s artistic dreams were awakened. She immersed herself in metalsmithing classes and worked with a Tiffany’s branded instructor to learn to design statement and fine jewelry. Her designs are sold in the Chatt Hills Gallery and have been purchased by museum curators and returning clients. Wanda is also a technical writer and documentation specialist with a career spanning over 20 years in the Systems Integration and Automated Identification Data Capture industry. She purchased a residence in the hamlet of Mado, in 2017, where she currently works from home as the customer-facing resource who can speak to deep technical elements by ascertaining client needs and promoting the relevant products while demonstrating use cases. https://www.blackartserenbe.org/gigi-wilborn daily 0.75 2021-10-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f6c6bfa8333a5f1e42fe20/1633903820182-XC5Y1Z6RA11EC9FM91KU/unnamed-6.jpg Gigi Wilborn - Gigi Wilborn Born in Atlanta, African-American artist Gigi Wilborn has always been creative. After completing her nursing degree, Gigi briefly shifted away from her creative background in order to focus on her nursing career. She soon returned to her true love, specializing in acrylic/watercolor-based abstract and mixed media creations. Her Mixed Media pieces often draw parallels between current political topics and contains a slew of hidden messages and double entendres woven within the blankets of color. Gigi came to Serenbe in 2020 the day before the pandemic lockdown. She lives and works here, surrounded by her art, husband, and two young daughters. She is a former Goat Farm studio member and her artwork is represented by Dogwood Gallery, Kuali Studio Gallery and Chatt Hills Gallery. https://www.blackartserenbe.org/nancy-livengood daily 0.75 2021-10-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f6c6bfa8333a5f1e42fe20/1633903966685-HO0RYEMTGIN1DF1LZMV3/unnamed-7.jpg Nancy Livengood - Nancy Livengood Nancy Livengood will assist the jury in evaluating materials for sustainability at the specific site as the commissioned piece must last for the continued benefit of the public. She serves as a materials guide, combining scientific concepts with the physical care of art. In the three years Nancy has been the Public Art Conservator with Fulton County, she has been responsible for the 70 commissioned public art pieces and 20 legacy art pieces throughout the County, managed the Art on Loan program which provides the different departments the opportunity to display in their public spaces from the more than 500 artworks in Fulton County’s collection, curated and installed exhibitions in Peachtree Gallery and assisted in additional exhibitions throughout the County. Most recently, she has been responsible for the installation of 238 artworks in the renovated libraries from the Fine Art Acquisition Program (where 1% of the renovation budget was directed toward the purchase and maintenance of Fine Art for the spaces), culminating in the downtown Central Library opening to the public in October 2021. https://www.blackartserenbe.org/serenity-for-shango daily 0.75 2021-12-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f6c6bfa8333a5f1e42fe20/f3f3032b-8695-41d1-9d28-de329b9d768f/Screen+Shot+2021-12-19+at+7.08.25+PM.png Serenity For Shango https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f6c6bfa8333a5f1e42fe20/6a092e72-2949-4d03-a55e-e6a6599bc3bb/Screen+Shot+2021-12-19+at+7.08.03+PM.png Serenity For Shango https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f6c6bfa8333a5f1e42fe20/f92e0d66-1134-4f9b-ba70-767d898914a7/Screen+Shot+2021-12-19+at+7.08.38+PM.png Serenity For Shango