https://www.inthetrove.com/interviews daily 0.75 2022-07-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1446233544795-G3DEB0NEO42QQGOWVFDC/image-asset.jpeg Interviews Impeccable at the DC Jazz Festival. Photo: Sharon Pendana https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1446228322174-GM5SB9K4WIBT6JUZINYE/image-asset.jpeg Interviews Ron through the years. Left photo, Eastman days. Center photo in July 1973 at Lotos Club, NYC by Steve Salmieri. Right photo by Henry Adebonojo. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1446233760800-XTI9QTLNKV9LS05HEJ0B/image-asset.jpeg Interviews The Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres medal; Ron with his twin grandsons, Ronnie and Myles; Ron and Quintell in selfie mode; one of Ron’s Grammy Awards: his handsome sons, Myles and Ron Jr.; his youngest grandson, Seen and his eldest grandson, Nelson. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1446226808525-DRS4XWRYER229BNKGGKC/image-asset.jpeg Interviews Ron Carter photographed by Henry Adebonojo. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1446231340494-0L1Z3B45EPE0AK61H51M/image-asset.jpeg Interviews 1. The scent of lavender. 2. Aural glow from his instrument. That transcendent moment “when the sound of my acoustic bass seems to glow in the dark,” is a particular favorite. 3. Making my wife smile. Quintell says that being with her husband is “a slice of Heaven.” 4. Hearing the sound of a Formula One car engine shifting through the gears. It’s a sonic delight that the fast car enthusiast can enjoy through the marvel of his Tetra Speakers. 5. Knowing that I helped a fellow musician play better/differently. Jazz bassist and professor at Rutgers, Kenny Davis, shared that many years ago as a private student of Ron’s, the maestro once positioned his fingers for him and left the room as he continued to play. Ron called out to him when he “heard” Davis’ lapse from the corrected form, changing the intonation. He gives Ron high praise for making him a better musician as well as teacher. "Studying with Ron is like studying with Michael Jordan or Dr. J for basketball. He's a master; like studying piano with Mozart. I'll still call Ron to this day if I have a question. I respect him not only as a bass player, but as a man, and for how he conducts his business," he says. 6. A great home-cooked meal. Pretty easy to come by when your son is a chef and your wife can “burn” too. 7. Flying home on American Airlines. After touring its always great to get home with an airline he can rely on. 8. Morning Light Service. The intimate, early-morning gathering for meditation, scripture, homily, discussion and Holy Communion each Sunday at Riverside Church is “very centering. It’s a perfect start to the week,” he says. 9. Wearing a great tailored suit/shirt/tie/combo. F-One in Tokyo, for whom he appears in advertising, makes most of his suits, though he has been known to occasionally don one created by his wife. He gets his custom shirts from Paul Stuart in New York. For finishing touches, he loves Ferragamo ties and Hermes pocket squares. 10. A hug from a friend. And he gives as good as he gets. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1460997032922-TS2IACJMAROQC0BTEWIT/image-asset.jpeg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1446232025113-DKEEHJH54UC0OHDM5XMN/image-asset.jpeg Interviews Graduation day at Eastman with his Dad, Lutheran by his side. Newlyweds Ron and Janet dine at home in Rochester. Photos courtesy Sandy Nixon/Finding the Right Notes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1446233460373-DZCMZ7MLTAOQB2B6BY32/image-asset.jpeg Interviews A small cross section of his recordings as a leader. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1446233145994-FEG1T85XX2J0BYY1AU5U/image-asset.jpeg Interviews A tiny smattering of his many recordings with other artists. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1461010442707-STJTAXFW70H9FWB6CZCG/image-asset.jpeg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1461010222914-IG2XG1XHWZC56CGNVAW2/image-asset.jpeg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1461009360634-ICPG63Y7XI1ESXJQEOLG/image-asset.jpeg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1461010127399-67P1P4KUS17RGFW3593F/image-asset.jpeg Interviews From his private collection, works by Francks Francois Deceus and Xenobia Bailey. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1446237539813-FN9UKK844PVPMV6QUPVE/image-asset.jpeg Interviews Danny Simmons photographed by Frederick V. Nielsen II. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1461009119052-GB0D4KD061IAFM9N9ALU/image-asset.jpeg Interviews Signed by Booker T. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1460996840594-VD3PF68VMDHSA37Y8N7H/image-asset.jpeg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1461009262814-MS80HJ8DBW1WM1R3UY3V/image-asset.jpeg Interviews Comics of the Marvel Silver Age. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1461009443477-MODAQL1YUAYL7EK759XM/image-asset.jpeg Interviews His Gallery at Wagner opening reception, photo by Debbie Hardy; Complications and dissertations (2012); Red goes with everything (2012) and Long time coming/long time gone (2012) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1446253456325-Q6INX8UF0RI3S1P1F4LH/image-asset.jpeg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1462534936843-OOVAJIYBIGORU0IZ78GB/image-asset.jpeg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1462534960798-P3WSYGAY4WK9RS4Q87FL/image-asset.jpeg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1462534983726-4NZCVCPLEQOU0P2JL1LE/image-asset.jpeg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1460996906753-KM0I9PZLFRMXT08MEH59/image-asset.jpeg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1446302172424-EW6DFZ8R9JAZK27J76UV/image-asset.jpeg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1446302900573-7DVS142Y6B7DLG7YTSVQ/image-asset.jpeg Interviews 2. ¿adónde? Stoneware. Gifts from their wedding registry, she and Mark love the brilliant combo of form and function in the modular dishware. Versatile stoneware makes each piece microwave, dishwasher and oven safe. Stackable stoneware, the plates fit on the bowls as lids– storage perfection. 3. Supermarkets, Drugstores and Flea Markets Abroad. ”I love the sensory overload of patterns and smells and the strange novelties of new places. I get lost in the bliss of it all” A Cheng- du supermarket via Maxxelli-Blog. 4. Braun Multimix (immersion blender, mixer, chopper and kneader all-in-one) “My longing for suburbia is greater than me. With this I can make soup by the boatload to fill our new basement chest freezer with little effort. I became a smoothie queen during my pregnancy and with this it’s a no-brainer to whip up something delicious in a heartbeat. Multimix: ”It’s stupid cheap, cleans in a jiffy, I’ve had it forever. It comes with a pile of attachments, too, so you can basically do next to everything with it.” 5. Metropolitan at Diner. While the famous Williamsburg watering hole no longer offers its variation on a black currant Cosmo, Nicole insures “When I come back to the bottle, I’m gonna make it come back, it’s so good! It’s perfection in a glass!” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1446302276242-CTWD2ZIMI0BH0IE6JBOV/image-asset.jpeg Interviews Some NLJ beauties: North South East West amethyst ring; a willowy, pearl-bodied spider; Aerin cuff; amethyst and diamond double leaf Barnaby drop earrings. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1446303214493-IP0UZASQJOTIMRM6Q7WS/image-asset.jpeg Interviews 6. Adidas Santiossage Slides. The nubby massage sandal is “one of the very few branded things I wear. As soon as the weather gets warm, I’m in them constantly.” With its massaging footbed , the Santiossage is a perennial best-seller. 7. Drive-thru-Car Wash. Again, suburban nostalgia. “There’s nothing that can completely reset me like that. It would be impossible to not to forget myself while going through.” 8. Custom Cutting Gemstones. She has a “total addiction. It’s a labor of love. It’s really exciting to approach and re-approach a piece until you get it exactly right. By designing both the stone’s cut and its mounting, I control the entire vocabulary of the piece. Getting into custom-cutting stones changed my work entirely. I can never go back to pre-cut stones.” George’s influence is evident in the Sheri Ring’s custom-cut Rutilated Quartz with its cabochon top and faceted underside. The ring is featured in Lloyd Boston’s “The Style Checklist.” 9. Vinyasa Yoga. She practices at Go Yoga Williamsburg under the instruction of Stephanie Sandleben and Michael Hewett. Photo via Flickr: all rights reserved by Bendyburg. 10. Lip Goo. “I’ve always been a goo addict, a total junkie. I always have it around.” Her current obsession is Kiehl’s #1 Lip Balm. Photo via Flickr: Elizabeth Taylor https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1446303115720-NE72KWU6MRM22Z984AXG/image-asset.jpeg Interviews 1. My studio. “I get an itch to be there and when I’m working away, I’ll completely lose track of time. It’s my sanctuary.”Signage from George’s shop; the wintry garden as seen from her workbench; her tumbler, “the most thoughtful gift I’ve ever been given”; George’s trusty wooden saw; with a mini-torch, she solders ear wire to a hoop casting. View the step-by-step process on Flickr. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1446302406969-V1OV2E2QQXHMHAHRFDZ8/image-asset.jpeg Interviews George’s tools and cameos. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1446238078635-TNRHTYWMMWO3IDAG5BJK/image-asset.jpeg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1446302642330-5IWWL5WVKXO5W33NQMOV/image-asset.jpeg Interviews Once again, he got her with a handcrafted box. After months of contemplation over the design, Nicole created her bridal rings and Mark’s band. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1446302572489-DYKKPLZW6AAXKD3UVYJJ/nlseattlebridalset.jpg Interviews His and Hers wedding bands commissioned by a Seattle couple. Photo: RSP Media https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1446302788063-ENN030L1GOIU5DG7DDI3/image-asset.jpeg Interviews They married in August 2008 and on March 2, 2011, the beautiful boy arrived, Jack Calder Maljanian. Family photo by Urbanito. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1446307419962-96SU3M5HRU43DMO39F1Y/image-asset.jpeg Interviews Reed at work. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1461201271707-JZCVJP6HQMU5KQF31UMU/image-asset.jpeg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1446307217544-N7QNG5GCCP040C5SUFAX/image-asset.jpeg Interviews The body as homage: dad’s initials, on “tying the knot,” a sorority of three, mom’s signature https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1446238339946-21WICFDL8068O2TJPR98/image-asset.jpeg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1446307328910-WMX928JMCMYS6MHQLG8C/image-asset.jpeg Interviews Young Reed, “I was a nerd. I read a lot.” The nurturing Morano family. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1446307003226-JPAT7GP2DQKXRC5UWY9I/RMWalker_Loves.jpg Interviews The gorgeous Walkers: Reed, her “lighting soulmate,” Matt and their boys. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1461003030530-7EIQJP4V8TF3MXDJ6QSH/image-asset.jpeg Interviews Toshi and her father, muses both. Toshi drawn by Michael Arthur; Cordell Reagon, from Charlotta Janssen’s series “Freedom Riders.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1461003267033-S9O9CISH1NEAYZ8TK6KD/image-asset.jpeg Interviews Toshi, Tashawn, the “Warrior Princess” and Bob. Photo: Erica Beckman https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1461005213466-FH74GHRCF6YXEZDZANG1/image-asset.jpeg Interviews Toshi chills at home. Photo by Frederick V. Nielsen. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1461004462951-MVKU95NO1RQIAB9VTCUS/image-asset.jpeg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1446241660193-VPZQCEBNIAQT9WKE8679/image-asset.jpeg Interviews Toshi Reagon photographed by Frederick V. Nielsen. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1461018105946-FRCH5IN8QC5FRCKVASI0/image-asset.png Interviews Toshi, Warren Haynes and Pete Seeger perform in the Clearwater Benefit Concert. Photo: Bryan Bedder/Getty Images. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1461004815662-K6RZN6V8YB0PO9UV7DMF/image-asset.jpeg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1461002830909-4ABACQ54NYJJ1RGD4KF3/image-asset.jpeg Interviews Freedom Singers, Cordell and Bernice Reagon; Baby Toshi and Mom Bernice; the legendary Flora Molton https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1461003397038-228ESZ32KUDQ9C03UT2G/image-asset.jpeg Interviews Toshi, Bob and single malt scotch. Photo: Sara Seinberg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1461004322636-IUUZZMY4E994EN7CD9VQ/image-asset.jpeg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1461003166325-X14PYUDY16TG32YR02M4/image-asset.jpeg Interviews Toshi with her musical moms: her mother, Dr. Bernice Johnson Reagon; June Millington (photo: Julieta Cervantes) and Nona Hendryx (photo: Desdemona Burgin) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1461004198785-HBLU7ZXVZ02BJTQPT5ER/image-asset.jpeg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1460995318006-L41FTBQO7J1T6253LX24/image-asset.jpeg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1461004106099-6MKT703M3FZUBWRXOWBQ/image-asset.jpeg Interviews Love at Hazel: Michelle Obama holds court in the dining room, sweet Baci chills in the backyard and Toshi’s fig jam https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1446242448222-0S774EC90HBIM8PCA7F8/image-asset.jpeg Interviews The polymathic professor, Fanon Che Wilkins photographed for THE TROVE. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1461677415729-QQ16N3KTHU51GVPWU4BP/image-asset.jpeg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1462535040892-FOT1J626ER1J9TIU9S30/image-asset.jpeg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1446255454135-MMTJB0KWPGKCEO593FCR/image-asset.jpeg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1460913786828-BZRH01GFNQBRLWZGOVEM/image-asset.jpeg Interviews The Afrosupernatural exhibition signage at Aljira; Leonardo at work on Subterrestrial Magik; Maia Estelle Benzant-Pérez proudly stands before her father’s finished work at the opening. Photos courtesy of Leonardo Benzant. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1460914696643-939JZILDD0EVJ8V240VT/image-asset.jpeg Interviews Canto encantada de Fior Daliza Pérez. Photos by Henry Adebonojo for THE TROVE. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1460915950433-57G7W9319MQF2WMNH0MT/image-asset.jpeg Interviews Studio vignettes: from a glimpse of one of his favorite quotes on the wall to the paint-splattered floor. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1460944321517-D79YY4TRY1G8UFAEANCC/image-asset.jpeg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1460913367558-7YEZB4CDIO96MF94JV0S/image-asset.jpeg Interviews Leonardo Benzant photographed by Henry Adebonojo for THE TROVE. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1460916834967-HOH7NRN6QZELPG252ITQ/image-asset.jpeg Interviews On view at Aljira from the Signatures series: Mama Kalunga And The Funky World Of The Kongo, 2011, oilstick and mixed-media on paper, 60 x 72" and To Invoke the Spirits of the Forest, 2011, oilstick and mixed-media on paper 75 x 60" Photos courtesy Leonardo Benzant. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1460915567455-HT6Y7JOZ0J3F7D2JAQER/image-asset.jpeg Interviews Leonardo's beautiful wife, jewelry designer, Lisa Shears and their daughter Maia. Photos courtesy of Leonardo Benzant. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1460915428013-WB627NQL1CIZ1DWQ7DUH/image-asset.jpeg Interviews One of many sketchbooks. Photo courtesy of Leonardo Benzant. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1460944279132-R5S6HUBWSV13K9RRTZRZ/image-asset.jpeg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1460914984372-2188T2NNLHB8E6E8W2VK/image-asset.jpeg Interviews Leonardo and Fior Daliza Perez on their wedding day and today. Photo by Henry Adebonojo for THE TROVE. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1460913658532-U1IFD8VKXCV482V7YAVZ/image-asset.jpeg Interviews Stringing beads. Photo by Sharon Pendana. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1460951487995-3JNAWRXEKB1WMI214JK6/image-asset.jpeg Interviews Yoruba inspiration: beaded crown and precious earth from the orisha Oshun's sacred grove in Osogbo, Nigeria. Wall photo by Henry Adebonojo. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1460944105008-EP3Q37GTI12SVGFZF5SY/image-asset.jpeg Interviews In the studio; appendages and a glimpse of Memoria Kongo: Bambula, a magnificent painting for the Afrosupernatural show which incorporates beadwork. Photo by Henry Adebonojo.. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1460916561272-KH5E90EQ2BG3ENQTTNRG/image-asset.jpeg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1460991804025-8IAKILAQWVZ9RSK5ODYF/LeonardoBenzant.jpg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1460914002799-DN73E7CUW976V7FPYUSR/image-asset.jpeg Interviews Lenny from the block: at 2 months, in Kindergarten, with little sister Fiorhina and baby brother, Hamlet, and as a teen. Photos courtesy of the Pérez family. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1460944628111-B8LHJDTX393827KVWB6Q/image-asset.jpeg Interviews Leonardo in the studio. To the right, Beings Born From Word and Stitch. Photo by Henry Adebonojo for THE TROVE. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1460916448247-G0NESW4VKNJA67160S2R/image-asset.jpeg Interviews An art patron moves through Cosmology of Resistance at the Danny Simmons-curated installation at Brooklyn’s Skylight Gallery at Restoration Plaza. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1460944132832-P7U6AEXJBG3CNQ16GR4P/image-asset.jpeg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1460999636425-VS82FQ7EI3GTMUE3VIPS/image-asset.jpeg Interviews Gwendolyn’s suburban digs and one of its treasured family photos: Mrs. Quinn and her babies. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1460999758004-Y5Q5HJ7VIFV6MTIXCHX7/image-asset.jpeg Interviews Through the years. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1460999214539-A8O1K674AIP1513WOQFC/image-asset.jpeg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1460999259972-19NCITT4SU4O5IIM55C6/image-asset.jpeg Interviews Lonnie, Sr. and Queen Esther, then and now. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1460999920500-Z1PJDTGSV4AS17Q4RO9C/image-asset.jpeg Interviews GQ in the mix with (clockwise) mentor Clive Davis; CeCe Winans; Lenny Kravitz; Sean Combs; Will Smith; Sir Elton John; Beverly Johnson; “musical hero,” Quincy Jones; Deborah Cox and Kirk Franklin. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1460999995461-ORKJP97LNN9IKD6VI1MN/image-asset.jpeg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1461000597271-1ITRDZSAEB5DEAT6BFVS/image-asset.jpeg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1461000560625-43EXOI62V1W75D05MNUT/image-asset.jpeg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1461000297721-V3DXXRUJX2WCS5RR5579/image-asset.jpeg Interviews She cherishes time with godchildren Asia & Sophia and Qaasim & Khalil. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1461000426744-SSIXG747MYCWA3MJZ3LR/image-asset.jpeg Interviews Gwendolyn made her debut recently as a background singer in a showcase at NYC’s Sugar Bar for Toni Seawright. The Tonettes (a.k.a. the Blackground Singers) Asa “LoveChild” Arnold, Gwendolyn Quinn, Gerald Latham, Marvel Allen. Photo: Ronnie Wright. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1461016975269-EVT12NKK1S1D4S5DWI2N/image-asset.jpeg Interviews Gwendolyn Quinn photographed by Ronnie Wright; makeup by Brandon Zimoyer. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1461000191296-2MRERW9Q8ESG039XKN44/image-asset.jpeg Interviews Gopolang (left) with her friends; in a thank you performance at Emmanuel Baptist Church; and at the Essence Music Festival in New Orleans with B. Smith; Pastor Shirley Caesar and Gwendolyn; Tina and Erica Campbell of Mary, Mary and the Peetes, Holly and Rodney. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1461001176472-O0YH6FD1EIBKANROQJ5Q/image-asset.jpeg Interviews With the Arian Queens of Soul and Funk, Aretha Franklin and Chaka Khan. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1461199724386-Q4Z2ZZMYXWAGON2MFXQ4/image-asset.jpeg Interviews Two of his works have been utilized for the Italian translations of the Junot Diaz books, “This Is How You Lose Her” and “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1461199189718-K4XRKVKYYIY6K97BU3NN/image-asset.jpeg Interviews From Depicted/Connected (L-R) “Her Story, 2013; JAG, 2013; D.C.O.G. (collaboration with Tim “Con” Conlon) 2013. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1461199527963-KICJR4YEDLM4Y6QI3MI5/image-asset.jpeg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1499902252048-74W7W30MTMMDTC5KJ3VQ/image-asset.jpeg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1461199088146-I5MT8BXOM9ML3MD2NEXG/image-asset.jpeg Interviews Tim shoots a reference portrait for the Depicted/Connected show. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1461200104112-RWK0GPQ780ZPZ0IP893G/image-asset.jpeg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1461200131660-E96QGWD51MJCUCF0KEBP/image-asset.jpeg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1461199857806-CGRVS3BKULRCRYOQQ4QR/image-asset.jpeg Interviews Brush with fame: Questlove and his purchase; a portrait of actor Bryan Greenberg; Uma Thurman with her portrait from “Prime.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1461198890896-FGH68RKP6SR33TNM0X7Y/image-asset.jpeg Interviews Tim Okamura photographed by Rene Cervantes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1461199139000-GUKTOIKC8E3PH7EPV4FT/image-asset.jpeg Interviews Tim shoots a reference portrait for the Depicted/Connected show. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1499902279549-ORLLEPFETL8A3KCEWJJ2/image-asset.jpeg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1461200836196-JBU2GIJ2GZL94R6WIMG9/image-asset.jpeg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1461199985928-KUHV0W89P7JSH8HF5YIN/image-asset.jpeg Interviews Courage 3.0, 2010-2012. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1461200070866-05ED9PEN15W00QSQ3T0K/image-asset.jpeg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1461200033375-B0JMWUQJBGNARQPQ4IBU/image-asset.jpeg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1462324932065-XY0J771MC6WJED81II83/image-asset.jpeg Interviews A quiet moment before the revelry. Works from such artists as Radcliffe Bailey (foreground) and Jean-Michel Basquiat (center right) fill the colorful loft. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1462325328591-L55JPQENZS6KUNI0R8HZ/image-asset.jpeg Interviews Before family and friends, at Cala Luna in Costa Rica, the blithe spirit wed the lithe athlete. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1462325534985-ZVJAX2HZWCT8JS9K76DA/image-asset.jpeg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1462324629082-GRJGD2HZAEWH44MS5H4V/image-asset.jpeg Interviews The golden girl. Photo by Sharon Pendana for THE TROVE. Elevation Mirror I: Arizona/New Mexico, 2000, Honduran mahogany, beveled mirror, brass tacks, found and made objects 85 x 48 x 12 in. Photo by Robert Baldridge. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1462326284840-3X07UXR0SANBMJZD7NRP/CRRiley_Faves.jpg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1462326586729-D084VMIBUSU2CJ5YVR1K/image-asset.jpeg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1462416912782-JXVVZEYTBGSX6J88XGTE/image-asset.jpeg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1462325016458-S3DN3YALE9UEM5O0LL8H/image-asset.jpeg Interviews First and second place winners, as well as judges of the crown contest; the evening’s menu; Chef Cassandra and Hiroshi; crown selection amid art books; one of Cheryl’s “Legacy Bags,” personalized with her childhood cowgirl snapshot; organic Costa Rican coffee was served in the familiar stripes of Paul Smith and floating flowers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1462326333044-YQVOIT6BW0QF70665EE5/image-asset.jpeg Interviews From left: Shinique Smith, And The World Don’t Stop, 2009; Fred Wilson, Iago’s Mirror, 2009; Whitfield Lovell, After an Afternoon, 2008 (from Kith and Kin) and Carrie Mae Weems, from The Kitchen Table Series, 1990 (the entire series was recently acquired by The Chicago Museum.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1462325183107-FRUI82OGXCV5LX4C7GI7/image-asset.jpeg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1462416178091-DI9OW4OMI27594PHZHCU/image-asset.jpeg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1462325646777-S0FKBVF3PEEP7YYY3QVN/image-asset.jpeg Interviews The humble design diva and the offices she designed for BET. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1463498816721-2048Q7KG4ZD9ALTM17L3/image-asset.jpeg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1462421048598-32V5MFQMUU3OGS5O5CV8/image-asset.jpeg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1462421824512-IX1CBZYZ659RA4GB2PPT/image-asset.jpeg Interviews Nnenna Ogwo photographed for THE TROVE. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1462422293338-MQ4ZE8YWCKA7YVNXR0F0/cntnkrsafro.jpg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1462422302926-AF2JXBTC0CAN9QGEAUMG/cntnkrsafro.jpg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1462422311497-2ZS5POL2559Y7QIZ0F2E/cntnkrsafro.jpg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1462422324821-O5M0SGLV3854DN94QQCS/cntnkrsafro.jpg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1462421426315-9SL2WZ2YBPNKUWCSK170/image-asset.jpeg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1462990825590-6RKDSPV1RQI2NI2K36RI/image-asset.jpeg Interviews Harriette Cole photographed by George Chinsee https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1462587531095-D848VTH7U65DR04UYCXA/image-asset.png Interviews Some of Harriette's books and a portrait of her father by the artist Simmie Knox, which hangs in the Maryland Court of Appeals in Annapolis. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1462471575737-HUJURWPW3K9XPTCN0NOB/image-asset.jpeg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1462471522228-X3Q8860EDQM4IIJWC5BQ/image-asset.jpeg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1462471906824-XT937V0M5DNW5A8WX08O/image-asset.jpeg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1462490576258-HKWWAFKJNLXYX2PY3G2Z/image-asset.jpeg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1462535105062-4LK56O4F7H1UTS084HL9/image-asset.jpeg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1462535270321-Z7U9STTN7BVJE1X7R3CI/image-asset.jpeg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1463495325699-CYD1WYPLD73FYX0JVMVM/image-asset.jpeg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1463495100858-54IZVTYAL639PLXRHZTT/DWimberly_Faves1.jpg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1468361937300-8FFXCWC8R9U7DXYOD8CP/image-asset.jpeg Interviews Dexter Wimberly photographed at Driscoll Babcock for THE TROVE. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1463495022668-8PXBK88FJ7NCNZTG4S8S/DWimberly_wedding.jpg Interviews Kanako and Dexter Wimberly on their wedding day in May 2012. Photo: Hiroki Kobayashi https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1463494985511-RX9JWADDZZH4K46X7Q72/DWimberly_XClan.jpg Interviews In esteemed company on the cover of XClan’s debut album. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1463495146261-OWGEZJ9THYXKKRNZ3CCG/DWimberly_Faves3.jpg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1463494928296-R4KNUI1BGG42Q1PUCZ4Q/DWimberly_MBowland.jpg Interviews The curator stands before Margaret Bowland‘s, The Tea Party, 2013. Oil on linen, 64 x 78 inches. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1463495167507-L8YN94BQROK96WCTGWSA/DWimberly_Faves2_Okamura_Becoat_Moore_Armstrong_Pecou.jpg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1519869801784-SSJVIFWA7ZFAH9UWJCH8/oasi.jpg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1519866273167-R7LJLVUCNJ4N9IKLOKAI/DancerDja.jpg Interviews A 1970’s anti-nukes rally: “I want to GROW not GLOW.” And grow she did into an awesome command of her body. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1519933760088-S23MCY6WNJ0YNIMR9I9I/DDJ_PQ.jpg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1519874220800-MI60OOS34MWQVRI6D94O/20160301_123238-764x520.jpg Interviews Book available as pdf download from ielanguages.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1519873813690-0WQTGSHJWMWC88K92LT5/Aperitivo.jpg Interviews “No matter where I am, I rarely have a night without an aperitivo.” Wine photo by Sara Rosso. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1519867905769-JGHPR0PTEE73WDU0FO5S/ddj_ninacontinimelis.jpg Interviews “Soho Moods,” Auditorium Parco della Musica, Rome. Photo © Nina Contini Melis. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1519870125714-RQ1Q4NHK7ENUQJK58VHX/ddj_fearless.jpg Interviews Holiday Island, the Maldives. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1519861261178-EQSXUNLJDYNYW6ZEUERO/DjaMom.jpg Interviews Little Mirahl was born December 28, 2010. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1519872490432-IU5WDUOFM9GHIJH8OZ59/DDJ_HatsAndHeels.jpg Interviews A few hats from her collection. Pumps, Carlos by Carlos Santana. “Don’t they just make you want to Salsa?” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1519938731711-O0H13P9BRBVE7HM69B4N/ddj_famdance.jpg Interviews The Sisters Johnson get their dance on. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1519934306099-T09FP5IJRNJT7LL9RYHN/djassi+daCosta+johnson.jpg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1519931177120-LXI1LWCOGBAHFLS7XHT4/ddj_DaCostaJohnsons.jpg Interviews The striking DaCosta Johnson family: Orundun and Awolowo (left) and their children, djassi, Mamadou, Yaya and Djani. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1519867738823-3QUWQ6Z0SYIRNE852Q9A/Verinis.jpg Interviews Dja love. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1519868677731-JNXT8MIXP2EKJND8WFTB/GDiapers.jpg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1519928180058-3TB176YHADAT3MEADDS1/DDJohnsonFeature.jpg Interviews djassi daCosta johnson photographed at 2 months pregnant. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1519932365783-WIQM4QCNUV48V81K6RNG/ddj_passion1.jpg Interviews The mind-blowing Passion ribbon solo. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1519873064518-SXVL081GBHQDUP98RUWL/arvore3_5-711533.jpg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1464289005789-6ON0ZIT5244AKJ4Z88NQ/image-asset.jpeg Interviews Jelani Bandele photographed by Keith Major. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1464443524498-VMJZZQZ5DKLMNODDXEVC/image-asset.jpeg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1464306451701-FI1BJQS5DR3YOXARNP7V/image-asset.jpeg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1464112736160-3QTTPN65TLMJ9Y548LU6/salmon_square_400x600.jpg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1464112735802-ICADEDGLN2LIACZI0TII/Croquetas_400x600.jpg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1464112735740-GQTXFCHVAWTCB7MWSIH1/brisket_400x600.jpg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1464112736238-F5ANDLWHQL4798S624D0/Frozen-Mango-Souffle-400x600.jpg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1464388272392-1K1WGVB72Q55G72MNMVJ/JB_JB_FB.jpg Interviews JB & FB: photobooth shenanigans. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1464374972798-YQ82NOAO6JYZAFSIYWOT/image-asset.jpeg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1464304306964-TEIP0SWM6JODO4XWU44Y/image-asset.png Interviews Dionne Warwick at the Fox Theatre, Brooklyn December, 29 1964. Photo: Donaldson Collection/Getty Images. Murray the K's Holiday Revue album cover from December 1964. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1464373513794-7I6SKIMULER9INGLTTKT/image-asset.jpeg Interviews Harry, Jolly and their strong-willed daughter at three-years-old. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1464383043683-T1VDGWYZEHIJH15X0VVK/image-asset.jpeg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1464371895896-23EVUKPKS4W8NI3CV1LG/image-asset.jpeg Interviews Clockwise from ieft : High stepping in London with Glenn Tunstull; gathering at a mentoring dinner with Jackie Rhinehart, Nora Nelson, Katina Bynum and Gwendolyn Quinn; hugs and a sexy side view with fashion and costume designer, Emilio Sosa at a BFC fashion show: with the women of Sister Friends; and with her partners in Elle Empire Jordan Anderson and Cielito Pascual. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1464058062755-V48M6A5PWQZQ9Q3I6VUA/image-asset.jpeg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1464307804694-3J2KA4P7NF46DEO3DE3H/image-asset.jpeg Interviews Surrounded by love: Devin (left) and Sirron flank their fit , fly mama; twenty years and counting with Nora; and the golden boy, pampered pooch, Bentley. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1464363717161-W39UD31M6EY29X13GF2Q/image-asset.jpeg Interviews With her statuesque beauty and luscious locks, Jelani has been photographed for New Word Magazine by Donn Thompson and Essence Magazine by Eddie Milla. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1464362086282-3V10QAZI69WEG7X9AMIZ/image-asset.jpeg Interviews Jelani and her sisters, in gorgeous hair glory. With Patricia in the 1970s and photographed with Raechelle by Michelle Agins for Sisterfriends in the 1990's. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1464307017070-T224IAKYK439RUPMM4Z9/image-asset.jpeg Interviews The nutritionist in 1987. And the venous and arterial tangle of the perfusionist's trade. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1464308923175-UJPVA9V9PP14JUEG4ZRP/image-asset.jpeg Interviews The eighties: Jelani and Sirron rock tees from perennial favorite Brooklyn festival, Atlantic Antic. Her third magazine gig was on a short-lived guide to life in "The City.." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1464360036389-RJ7F692SX8GJW6JFZ8D7/image-asset.jpeg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1464644867255-3P6H80BNIIVFVHU6DXTA/image-asset.jpeg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1468298041129-MZ2WG79H1BWYVYBMDOG6/NWA_Family.jpg Interviews The Webbers of Judge's Row. Dad, Paul R. III; Mom Fay keeps little Nikki from hurtling toward her big brothers, Scrappy & Stevie on Dad's boat; Fay and Nikki stylishly " breezin ' through the lobby" of the Fontainebleau Miami Beach in the 1970s. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1464661919491-SISACQG50B3FO204AJIY/image-asset.jpeg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1464658595209-PDRXRAHF1KNCJ1R3IOJN/image-asset.jpeg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1468292578132-4LGHG3G2NRCMPRWGMXVN/image-asset.jpeg Interviews Smiles all around: beautiful bride and her gorgeous Mom; the lovely couple is wed by Rev. Michael Eric Dyson; Asher's toast; and a sweet, sweet dance with Dad. Photos: Hazel Photographers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1464650150066-ZCUM0LRA9FP0YYEJ98XU/image-asset.jpeg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1468017520653-ATQ5IM3TP2M0Y09UN2H6/image-asset.jpeg Interviews The Georgetown Visitation Class of 1983. Nikki is grateful to the many women from her class who've demonstrated generous support in the fundraising initiatives for her recently inaugurated foundation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1468308318648-9M4SPYF0A6FABDMJOMSC/image-asset.jpeg Interviews Jef solos with Mint Condition; newly affianced. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1468304504891-HSXSUEVUFXXID9SF15DX/image-asset.jpeg Interviews I Live For... social media campaign. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1468307663464-ULT55CYHTL5X49GJTDJ6/image-asset.jpeg Interviews Mindfulness journey. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1468309543567-GKSTLYKF7CZDCX56E47X/image-asset.jpeg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1464787051419-C427D7EF2XIGUT6F6GH2/image-asset.jpeg Interviews As a producer, she was "playing it cool on the outside;" as a fan, "swooning on the inside," during Maxwell's live-to-tape concert of his seminal album, Urban Hang Suite for BET in 1996. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1468519419805-F1SK3K2KIEGD3CC5044R/image-asset.jpeg Interviews Nikki Webber Allen photographed by Kristin Stith for Emulsions Photography. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1468299642792-I6N4IUASQBOJHSRKBJG5/image-asset.jpeg Interviews Prince hangs in mid-eighties dorm room ubiquity while Nikki rocks Rutgers red. Photobombing Abdul Malik Abbott and Phil Roc on a Classic Concepts video shoot for Boyz to Men's "Motown Philly" in 1991. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1468339645240-HC8D9WEV5F5AUIBOO159/image-asset.jpeg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1468305765501-HFNDEFVGGN2OMV4K9KRC/image-asset.jpeg Interviews Nikki shared the story of her beloved Paul. Roscoe Burnems moved the crowd. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1483895422568-319U6KGQ4J4TTKAD91UM/image-asset.jpeg Interviews Paul Rainey Webber, V (1991 -2013) Rest in peace. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1468016402790-9YH1RZ4PXJGMO02F00I9/image-asset.jpeg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1467836237675-WEX97LIBDUJEPSXLCML3/image-asset.jpeg Interviews From Bow & Drape. Photo courtesy Nikki Webber Allen . https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1468337330912-SMW1X6TQP0403PQAMPY8/image-asset.jpeg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1468528199994-3EO389EP8RMWTFAPKIO0/image-asset.jpeg Interviews Nikki's favorite, David Tennant, the tenth Doctor in the series, Doctor Who. And Dad's memoir. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1464613157260-XPK2GK12VFP3F2BX4ZX1/image-asset.jpeg Interviews Bandan beauty; a hnadmade scooter; Erin's handiwork in the schoolhouse; a tiny duo. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1464612557234-CCKMXBTIJHG4SEKIWBWJ/image-asset.jpeg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1464624657009-49ZN3LRN8N2JBVSQ71OA/image-asset.jpeg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1464625060299-W623YDKRJSDCRHX0NEC4/image-asset.jpeg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1464624200916-PQ27DDYEKRXPP48R5QYU/image-asset.jpeg Interviews Jaipuri adornment was everywhere even on the camels. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1464623892239-1KAL5Z7RI1CE5RUVPN1T/image-asset.jpeg Interviews Jonathan and Erin auto-rickshaw through Agra; petals at the feet of Ganesh at the Taj Mahal. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1464629156507-LFR2NABLHN221CTG5IS9/image-asset.jpeg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1464613277946-RGIJ0X23E2K9M0S7ZWUO/image-asset.jpeg Interviews Virunga Moountain; a traditional home, and the gorillas of the mist. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1464624464704-HTF791DJVQ5F5II9UX6C/ERobinson-Sketchbooks.jpg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1464612727185-YMSCXR5751WT0X9B99AS/image-asset.jpeg Interviews Banda Village, Nyungwe Rainforest, Bandan Villagers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1464624299495-M0PD7GQTUPLI40W6FN7J/image-asset.jpeg Interviews Glimpses of Kerala. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1464612354473-0BALI7LRV5T8DXNGKG3S/image-asset.jpeg Interviews The Robinsons of Shepherd Park: Harry, Erin, Dianne, Kia Winlock and Leigh Warfield. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1464623397568-IJOW28VC6J7AMGZ38E2X/image-asset.jpeg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1464612002113-3EVV0TOS9HL9RK4D9N1O/image-asset.jpeg Interviews Erin Robinson and the sweet girls of Banda Village, Rwanda. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1464623156607-0H4COELFOA0NVZYMXX6K/image-asset.jpeg Interviews Joining Erin at the chalkboard, the girls doodled and swayed their tiny hips to the Brazilian rhythms. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1464623514197-EW210Z88FH8WWKWA93Z4/er_rebecca.jpg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1464623522412-RQW21UAXX20UNGTYA8SW/er_rebecca.jpg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1464623528110-7TT3CMZQLCEPL990QLI2/er_rebecca.jpg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1464623535523-UL5UUM62I0VG611NU6O3/er_rebecca.jpg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1464623780383-CYE3O2G7X7MPILUXNFAK/image-asset.jpeg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1464623721299-STJ21YX93NAVD2D2UYQE/image-asset.jpeg Interviews Nairobi menagerie. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1464612827287-L8KOSIPR4KAFM8AMQPVY/image-asset.jpeg Interviews Sustenance. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1464623835879-R9J9TB3C9T88XPCVP7I4/image-asset.jpeg Interviews A morning prayer; a beautiful life drawing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1464871225094-TUSADAD20LNILG0UF3SD/image-asset.jpeg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1464869700599-3K6AEZ2N9PEAHAE0I07Z/image-asset.jpeg Interviews The bashful boy and the confident man with his supportive parents, Valerie and James Scales, Jr., after a gig. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1464871265382-NJ8T3VYKPW4XGKEHN3VK/image-asset.jpeg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1464869312634-73TC72OUHY5VH0MFTU8R/image-asset.jpeg Interviews Jonathan Scales photographed for THE TROVE in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1464873940378-IWX3FM1BSUVZF87RTIYK/image-asset.jpeg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1464870930313-WQJ2V9H3M5MY8AZBVD7K/image-asset.jpeg Interviews Krispy Kreme on the road with Phill and Cody; cutting the cake with his bride and best friend, Rachel. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1464871130379-TGA3V57AASBX5MBPMT8I/image-asset.jpeg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1464870113618-6BLAVJXDT6A8S9O8H4W3/image-asset.jpeg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1483591050423-ZWPWFCKYYS0GJBONL5F8/image-asset.jpeg Interviews Gary Dourdan photographed by Frederick V. Nielsen for THE TROVE. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1466513805464-X6AA2PXP8YIO16FMQS1U/image-asset.jpeg Interviews Top: "Clyde" in Five Thirteen. Center: "Sheldon" in BET's Being Mary Jane; "Augie Johnson" in TV One's Love Under New Management; with Stephen C. Bishop in TV One's, Media, forthcoming in 2017. Bottom: "Ayden" in Reversion with Aja Naomi King; and on the TV One series, Belle's. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1465900600481-AG0FRGZTI87LK6JB32B1/image-asset.jpeg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1469992011673-UNW63LBACM0H7RP6PF5E/image-asset.jpeg Interviews The Family Durdin. Selma and Robert flank their NAACP Image Award-winning son . Artist Bobbie enjoys a Cinderella moment on the red carpet with her "big baby bro." Look-alikes Kimberly and her "bro bro" get in some hang time. Gary convenes with his uncle, Robin Corley and younger brother, Joel. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1469818471549-2R1OOPKWJGJUF4EGTTS0/image-asset.jpeg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1466554221961-O5V0508HIEVT25LWZCS2/image-asset.jpeg Interviews KIehl's Original Musk photo via 15 Steps. Ugo Cacciatore ring photographed by Frederick V. Nielsen II for THE TROVE. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1465898715828-KVDL20ZLI13HHHJYIG38/image-asset.jpeg Interviews As George Lester Jackson in Black August; Dies of gunshot wounds in Grissom's arms (William Petersen) as Warrick Brown on CSI. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1466185291430-Y7PLUJNVTL0HGBM630DB/image-asset.jpeg Interviews A sultry moment with Janet Jackson in the music video for "Again." Album art for Bell Café's the brooklyn tapes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1469991770449-NPQTX1KUCFO1XGYJHFE7/image-asset.jpeg Interviews Darryl Andre Durdin (1951-1972) Rest in Peace. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1465894267149-ABVBKG4OA21788SX2WZL/image-asset.jpeg Interviews In character as Christie, a mercenary and first mate of the ship, the Betty in Alien: Resurrection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1466561268272-G4GTKUANSS3ZE52NUSDE/image-asset.jpeg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1466556188127-TKIIXAZ4S8OM28CYE8WG/image-asset.jpeg Interviews Naomi "Nai Palm" Saalfield of Hiatus Kaiyote. Prince performs in the rain during the Super Bowl XLI half-time show in 2007. Photographed by Chris O'Meara/AP. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1465897764128-8R5RPG08368A57E6ECHO/image-asset.jpeg Interviews With Kenya Moore (top) and Gretchen Palmer in Trois; Jack Van Adams (Gary) speaks to his cousin Lem (Darren Dewitt Henson) in Soul Food; and as Malcolm X in King of the World. Photo: ABC PhotoArchive /Getty Images. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1466265885457-5PPPUSWW0768W0SS3DBZ/image-asset.jpeg Interviews The young couple at "Seventh on Sixth," New York Fashion Week in 1991. Photo: Ron Galella Archive/Getty Images. The lean model. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1465899088663-BXTMABF4D7ZOEY61Y418/image-asset.jpeg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1466180142250-1YVO0DZN2T379BH1B1US/image-asset.jpeg Interviews Gary, then and now. Left photo, courtesy of the Durdin Family. Right photo by Frederick V. Nielsen for THE TROVE. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1466653141191-B1L91XU2XFML9PWVL5RV/image-asset.jpeg Interviews Speaking with Cheick Tidiane Seck, who is guesting on Gary's forthcoming album. He exclaimed from Mali, "We visited the incomparable Salif Keita at his house!" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1466554975724-41MLASNS9BANCBIQ8ZK3/image-asset.jpeg Interviews A view of Paris from Basilique du Sacré-Cœur de Monmartre. Photo by Florian Plag. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1465898083314-3GCS6K3JXD43CKO80RKT/image-asset.jpeg Interviews And then came CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1466530389225-X0EOO8USL0GETQ0Q8KVZ/image-asset.jpeg Interviews Photographed by Frederick V. Nielsen II for THE TROVE. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1466262821610-ZWDW04N5FV96K52HNQKZ/image-asset.jpeg Interviews Proud papa: celebrating with Claas of 2016 graduate, Nyla. Boys in blue: clowning with Lyric. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1465892713776-CH9KECIQ4Z52FQLOYDMT/image-asset.png Interviews In a classic scene from A Different World, Freddie (Cree Summer) and Shazza (Gary) receive a less-than-welcoming acknowledgement from Marion Gilbert (Diahann Carroll) at Whitley's wedding. Photo: NBC/Getty Images https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1465963260946-I0UKE4T2HD01XUORBSAF/image-asset.jpeg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1466566436638-05XHO933S9MK1NHIOCAT/image-asset.jpeg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1466192994162-WHT3XSN8GHHGXPWI8XLG/image-asset.jpeg Interviews A loving touch from Dad, the "most giving" person he's ever known. (Rest in peace, Mr. Robert Booth Durdin, 1925-2015) An encouraging word from Ruby Dee. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1466697476266-YLLYQ2L0PGDEBBQKHLQR/image-asset.jpeg Interviews In Kirina, with the village griots and with a young student of the music school. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1467228858940-5B6UFPK4X9YPJ470IPE0/image-asset.jpeg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1467234066381-IYDB3GE06EBQGZXROAOC/image-asset.jpeg Interviews Alonzo Wright photographed by Graziela Vigo. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1467238129635-RKR33L49OKABYVIDJK2M/image-asset.jpeg Interviews Alonzo's recordings. ( yes , this is an addendum) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1467223747303-T4D1KA37TXSUUH56TKTX/image-asset.jpeg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1467225465087-1355LLNPY6OGW6XWH78J/image-asset.jpeg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1467232564167-83DQ2YWAXCSQ2MZA0MJE/image-asset.jpeg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1516323836834-WIBAXA2TQ564DT7H2ACI/BBC_Aruba_CitronMartini.jpg Interviews The Crofts in Aruba: Barbara and Chase head to jet ski, documented by Monte. And a classic libation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1516739068399-T8A7TO5J1FMNWUOU6BUI/BBC_HughesLetter_SOMBF.jpg Interviews When Langston Hughes dubs your book, "the MOST," it's high praise. Some of My Best Friends ©Brumsic Brandon, Jr. Art Trust. Photos courtesy of Medialia Gallery. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1516481127853-VZ8UNVNQGE79WYH1KO0Q/BBC_TimeForJoya.jpg Interviews "Seymour the Bookworm." Joya Sherrill holds Mr. BB's book, Luther on Time for Joya! Photos courtesy of Barbara Brandon-Croft. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1516760058942-GDV9DNEEOA56IL3UXU5X/BBC_Monte+_Chase_AsHuey.jpg Interviews Barbara's loves: cool cat, Monte; and Chase as Huey Freeman, perfect Halloween look for the son and grandson of cartoonists. Photos courtesy of Barbara Brandon-Croft. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1516299532255-6JUUD07X2LJ8C1TQUQF2/BBC_GoodacreParkWaterfall.png Interviews The lush waterfall of Goodacre Park. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1516629515483-4ABYTA86WF26DB4OUTRX/BBC_BBCandBBJ.jpg Interviews Barbara and her dad: cartoon history makers. Photos courtesy of Barbara Brandon-Croft. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1516630221049-A4NQT658BMVTGNSHQKT0/BBC_BombCycloneQueens_HenryAdebonojo.jpg Interviews The "bomb cyclone" of early January 2018 blanketed Queens, NY in snow. Photo: ©Henry Adebonojo. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1516756446131-RCGX9ATJ2CGBCB7VWXN4/BBC_TheBrandonFamily.jpg Interviews Rita and Brumsic Brandon, Jr. Their children Barbara, Brumsic III and Linda on Easter Sunday 1963. Photos courtesy of Barbara Brandon-Croft. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1516312665887-PBY9MZPN7BUZLRI0IQ3N/BBC_WICF_panels.jpg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1516759901145-VWL3GI20VVSXDP0RYTCD/BBC_Luther_Panel_MrB.jpg Interviews . The themes from Luther resonate today. Mr. Brandon at his drawing table. ©Brumsic Brandon, Jr. Art Trust. Images courtesy of Medialia Gallery. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1516723195553-389H0TA0AW5S15S6IZ65/BBC_EarlyArtwork.jpg Interviews Artwork from the college years: an assignment to illustrate food yielded Barbara's clever take on chocolate; through a lesson in etching from revered artist Benny Andrews, Barbara produced her first and only etching (the original plate, above) though she is contemplating a return to the medium. A 1970's pastel drawn from her imagination, though she says, "I must have had Muhammad Ali or Harry Belafonte on my mind." Artwork, ©Barbara Brandon-Croft. Images courtesy Barbara Brandon-Croft. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1516741490826-AAA1PVAIZIRHET2JSGX4/BBC_Topical.jpg Interviews It's a Brandon skill to succinctly communicate the spirit of the day in a single panel. Barbara was compelled to brush off her felt-tips to acknowledge the treachery of the sitting president. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1516484140223-WJJL89MWODW6E5LN6MTY/BBC_Name.jpg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1516366811298-XE17PX3CKUZI8MMURRQ2/BBC_FashionBook_Children.png Interviews The Fashion Book, named "the fashion Bible" by Vogue Magazine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1516630770963-NAD6B3NM6ZC0U2GDN59X/BBC_SevenDeadlySins_BBJ.png Interviews "We were very socially conscious, it was just a part of what we breathed. I mean, the 7 Deadly Sins were in our dining room." Illustrations, ©Brumsic Brandon, Jr. Art Trust. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1516743159321-VA56TZCOVYFZYIOLBAXV/BBC_WhereImComingFromBooks.jpg Interviews The covers of her books. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1516329863235-GRO2TX33KBOA8V5WSLF7/BBC_TheFamilyCroft.jpg Interviews Barbara and Monte on their wedding day; baby Chase; Mommy and son; the proud family Croft at the CULLUD exhibition opening. "Monte, Chase and me. It's a good solid feeling," she says. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1516299375718-B3A4RDB0UIA289K97XHD/BBC_Chocolate_Meat.jpg Interviews Barbeque brisket photographed by Hector Manuel Sanchez for Southern Living. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1516369102109-87QC5A20AKNSOWC4Y5LN/BBC_withLeslie_Pull_Quote.jpg Interviews With bestie, Lesiie. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1516542526201-JNTY6U3SFBAXXE0ROF5L/BBC_WISCF_ELLE.jpg Interviews Cheryl, Lydia (with baby Aretha), Sonya, Nicole, Lekesia and Judy, six of the nine characters from Barbara's groundbreaking comic strip, Where I'm Coming From. ©Barbara Brandon-Croft https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1516749986425-AN7FPH5IXKKUW0TE23BG/31876v-enlarge.jpg Interviews Where I'm Coming From. "Yes, That's My N.O.W. Literature You See on the Coffee Table," December 15, 1991. This strip is in the collection of the Library of Congress and part of the exhibition Drawn to Purpose, American Women Illustrators and Cartoonists. Jackie Ormes' work is featured in the same show. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1516738168338-SS5OZAB05ZM0269JVCS7/BBC_%C2%A9Cullud_BarbaraPreparesExhibit.jpg Interviews "CULLUD," the board game, "anyway you play it, you lose..." ©Brumsic Brandon, Jr. Art Trust. Barbara preparing the exhbition. Photo courtesy Medialia Gallery. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1516483737363-SMVW2JHCHZBTGGUA6A6D/BBC_TROVEPortrait.jpg Interviews Barbara Brandon-Croft photographed by her much taller son, Chase Croft. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1469241807935-FAUUOWQ48DP87EFPF6XH/MBarnett_Travel_885.jpg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1469224830839-UXQ9PM8KYX4F34D3KE4G/image-asset.jpeg Interviews Limited edition “Tap Tap” carpet, inspired by the colorful buses of the same name in Haiti. Malene donated the profits from the sale of this carpet to Aid to Artisans Haitian Artist Recovery Fund. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1469241259308-J4VP4L42I6B78HXZBLDV/image-asset.jpeg Interviews Malene’s serene, sun-drenched master bath. Photo: Henry Mitchell Interior Architecture. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1469241512900-DLYVBE55U73G1NK8370D/image-asset.jpeg Interviews A Nepali weaver crafting the “Market Women” pattern in wool and silk. The “St. Vincent,” so named for Malene’s mother’s homeland, provides the backdrop for a spread on Beyoncé in the March issue of L’Officiel. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1469241373792-BKW0R50ST7RI58IIKEO7/image-asset.jpeg Interviews Dr. Cynthia Barnett surrounded by her girls, Debbie, Malene and Nneka. Malene’s first painting –with colorful carpet– hangs in her mother’s home to this day. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1469241646543-PQOJF7TRFOUUWHPKQGAM/image-asset.jpeg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1469241680652-GL5FQ9EVPJVE26E7OFNT/image-asset.jpeg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1469240844554-NWNVZN2T8Y0RAB8O8P1E/image-asset.jpeg Interviews Editor-in-Chief, Cindy Allen and Malene at the celebration for Cindy’s 10th anniversary at the helm of Interior Design magazine. The “Wolof” rug which commemorated a trip to Senegal, garnered the first major press for the fledgling Malene B, and inspired the design of the custom iron gates at Malene’s Brooklyn home — they mimic the silhouettes’ small heads and elongated necks. Her own work imbued with illustrative motifs, Malene found herself in great company amid the artists and designers included in the GAP, such as interior designer Sheila Bridges (far right) whose “Harlem Toile” suite of home goods is featured. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1472573557222-H2507Y4ESZ7XCCKCI7LY/image-asset.jpeg Interviews She doesn't romanticize motherhood, yet Selah is "without question" Rhea's favorite person on the planet. "I learn so much from my daughter; she can hold her own, she cracks me up," she says. "She has a sense of self-worth that’s really pretty rad to me. I did not have that at her age. She rocks!" Photos courtesy of Rhea L.Combs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1472521632640-WB7R2X48S0DX1BZJUQBQ/image-asset.jpeg Interviews Rhea is proud of her work on the "Double Exposure" series of books to benefit the Earl W. and Amanda Stafford Center for African American Media Arts. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1472512774432-E5KDOAUTYS5KQPPY93CT/image-asset.jpeg Interviews The Tuscan hillside. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1478049200642-XRDU0QLW34KQIQQ47O24/image-asset.jpeg Interviews The exquisite filigree cladding on the museum exterior pays homage to the craftsmanship of early African-American ironworkers in Savannah and New Orleans. Photographed by Simba Mafundikwa. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1473857594210-BINSPQ9H1QMJECTLCMNJ/image-asset.jpeg Interviews Rhea is honored to have her interview with artist/filmmaker Camille Billops included in Cinema Remixed & Reloaded: Black Women Artists and the Moving Image Since 1970. ( left ) A print of Billops' original poster art for her film KKK Boutique: Aint Just for Rednecks. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1472489614171-MOLQG40G4HQVXJ2NR0PH/image-asset.jpeg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1472522214507-XCXV4S7AXP8GBW0S54XG/image-asset.jpeg Interviews Harrison Martin and his wife Fannie Bell, Rhea's great-grandparents. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1473822169285-JF00FT48C02RLHLOKKV1/image-asset.jpeg Interviews Alva Rogers, Barbara-O and Trula Hoosier in a beautiful scene from the film. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1473459874189-278YPJPJO5JRJN6TT1DA/image-asset.png Interviews Comedian Richard Pryor. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1473461867302-HOFWZ31UJMAZA965ET86/image-asset.jpeg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1472521309202-DJLSZRB6RBZTT6KW5OM1/image-asset.jpeg Interviews Generations: Fannie Bell Shackleford Martin embraces her daughter Frances Martin Suttles; Frances' daughter, Rita Suttles Combs embraces her youngest daughter; and baby Rhea. Photos courtesy of Rhea L. Combs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1472483604638-7MNIXFV64XGMET9U33VQ/image-asset.jpeg Interviews Little Rhea, the pacifist hockey player. "My father (Charles Combs, top center) was a hockey fanatic. He watched it all the time. That’s part of the reason I was so proud to be on the team; it was a way for us to connect." Photo courtesy of Rhea L. Combs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1472512386673-4ZO7XA857O7WZQAG1YND/image-asset.jpeg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1478053776439-8FJXBE43VVR4H9HXXT6J/image-asset.jpeg Interviews Of the nearly 37,000 items in the NMAAHC collection, Rhea's favorite artifacts are the personal effects of Harriet Tubman, gifted to the museum by historian Charles L. Blockson . Among them, a silk lace and linen shawl given to Ms. Tubman by Queen Victoria in 1897; and the brave abolitionist's hymnal from 1876, signed "Harriet Tubman Davis" Photos: Smithsonian Magazine (left), Sharon Pendana (center), Washington Post courtesy of the Smithsonian Institution Archives (right). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1472524573414-WE894T5PTT5ES0FT8FL1/image-asset.jpeg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1484499408487-IC329R0X3WGSDFJ80YYM/image-asset.jpeg Interviews Rhea L. Combs photographed at home by Sharon Pendana for THE TROVE. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1484500877740-01JL8U03X3KY4TESLQB1/image-asset.jpeg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1473861638510-Y2ABWGYA065T226V0HUU/image-asset.jpeg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1472654126245-15370LTI6QMUUQOYS5DE/RC_SmithsonianCampaign.jpg Interviews Rhea is honored to be among the group of her "amazing colleagues" to represent the organization's Smithsonian Campaign, a fundraising initiative. In this capacity, she has spoken in Chicago, Atlanta, and Los Angeles. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1472504812172-9ETJPEXI9N5IZI9AHMQZ/image-asset.jpeg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1480318780584-PT0NKGR34MMW0SX5VQ3F/TLC_PQ.jpg Interviews Photo: ©Lucy Cobos/Cobos Photography https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1479919258675-QPBJKLFSH9H911KN32IN/image-asset.jpeg Interviews A cross-section of recordings on which Terri Lyne has served as leader, producer, composer, arranger or session player, including, TLC and Friends, alongside George Coleman, Kenny Barron, and Buster Williams, with her dad, Sonny Carrington sitting in on the final cut. It was privately recorded when she was just sixteen, years before her major label debut, Real Life Story. Also in the mix, her beloved friend Teena Marie's final release before her 2010 passing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1480041320086-VH5XKWB2UVSBVN9QOIGR/image-asset.jpeg Interviews Matt Carrington, Jr. and the gifted granddaughter he never met. Photos: left, courtesy of The Carrington Family; right, Richard Brown for DownBeat magazine (3-22-79). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1479698980336-R2SGV6VL41X3F1Y1MGRT/image-asset.jpeg Interviews Clockwise from left: Little Terri the budding saxophonist before losing both her baby teeth and her embouchure; sitting in with Oscar Peterson on piano and Keter Betts on bass; all poise as the master, Art Blakey sits smiling at her feet; a post-jam pic with sax great, Grover Washington, Jr.; flanked by her father, Sonny and Mr. B.B. King: Terri with her proud parents and the legendary John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie, who said of Terri's skill, "Oooowee, man, she's mean! She's good, man! That little girl can play!" Photos courtesy of Terri Lyne Carrington. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1479777789726-U5IAI0A4KK4E71CM03XB/image-asset.jpeg Interviews Terri Lyne started touring with Wayne Shorter shortly out of her teen years. Photo courtesy of Terri Lyne Carrington. The NEA Jazz Master performs for his 80th birthday at the Newport Jazz Festival. Photo: Sharon Pendana for THE TROVE. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1479997879207-466BAMTOF1NX1QLIPN29/image-asset.jpeg Interviews TLC with: Nancy Wilson, Clark Terry & Dianne Reeves, Tipper Gore, George Duke, Cindy Blackman & Sheila E., Kennedy Center Honoree, Herbie Hancock, Nona Hendryx, Patrice Rushen, Esperanza Spalding, Lizz Wright, Ledisi and an artist she's not yet played with but would love to ... Chick Corea. Photos courtesy of Terri Lyne Carrington. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1479272540623-LHG0WO1BK1YVP6BALUS4/image-asset.jpeg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1480001465288-UWKHHQUGU6DCQ5ZRN5NJ/TLC_Mags.jpg Interviews Terri commands attention for both her solo efforts and collaborations such as the ACS Trio with Geri Allen and Esperanza Spalding or the Murray, Allen, Carrington Power Trio with David Murray and Geri Allen. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1479916709518-0K7CCCIF26OR2VJNWRGU/image-asset.jpeg Interviews With Jack and Lydia DeJohnette. Photo courtesy of Terri Lyne Carrington. A trinity of greats grace the June 2012 cover of Modern Drummer magazine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1479269362777-6XV7DYWL6644CECMHI43/TLC_WineAndCooking.jpg Interviews Chardonnay from the only Black-owned estate winery in Napa Valley, Brown Estate; and one of TLC's vegetarian specialties, Tofu Stir-Fry. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1479263592912-JC5FZG858ZX91ZNSMEU8/image-asset.jpeg Interviews Photo by Tracy Love. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1480041579092-ACD7S4XZYF336S7U1QNK/image-asset.jpeg Interviews Through the years. Photos courtesy of Terri Lyne Carrington, except second image, top row, EBONY magazine, Johnson Publishing Company. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1479922493737-YIB5BIK0OZ58ZZH8HOQC/TLC_AHSposse_VIBE.jpg Interviews A rising drum star: in triplicate for People Magazine; performing "Human Revolution" from her debut album on Verve Forecast, Real Life Story on the Arsenio Hall Show in 1989; cutting a lean figure in an artful cymbal shot; house drummer on the set of Vibe with host, Sinbad in 1997. Photos courtesy of Teri Lyne Carrington. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1479942633310-CU9SGTUXH6QLSAMEPNB1/image-asset.jpeg Interviews With Honors: Craigie Zildjian, Avedis Zildjian CEO joins as Lee Eliot Berk, then-President of Berklee College of Music presents Terri with an Honorary Doctorate. Photo courtesy of Terri Lyne Carrington. Charles Garrett, President of the Society for American Music (SAM) and Roger Brown, current President of Berklee College of Music flank SAM honoree Terri. Photo: Michael Broyles https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1479777356414-F6NR1OECUFNDSH7K20Z9/image-asset.jpeg Interviews A young Terri Lyne reads Angela Davis An Autobiography. Now one of Terri's closest friends, Ms. Davis continues to inspire. In the liner notes to Terri's 2002 release, Jazz is a Spirit, she writes that Terri "has significantly transformed the way we think about jazzwomen , and how we think about jazz. Jazz is a spirit and thanks to Terri, that spirit is extricating itself from its exclusively male history." Photos courtesy of Terri Lyne Carrington. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1479657491344-8QZQLHI5I6DA6F6LTXLM/image-asset.jpeg Interviews Terri Lyne beams with her first GRAMMY® in 2012 for Best Jazz Vocal Album for The Mosaic Project. She enjoyed subsequent wins for Best Jazz Instrumental Album in 2014 for Money Jungle: Provocative in Blue and in 2015 for once again producing the Best Jazz Vocal Album, Dianne Reeves' Beautiful Life. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1479314775822-UK0GPWFCZQW8E4WKB0K3/image-asset.jpeg Interviews A few TLC Faves: Missy Elliot, So Addictive; Joni Mitchell, Don Juan's Reckless Daughter (particularly the song "Paprika Plains") Marvin Gaye, What's Going On; Jimi Hendrix and the Band of Gypsys, Live at the Fillmore East; Rachelle Ferrell, Individuality (can I be me?); John Coltrane, Ballads; Shirley Horn, Here's to Life; The Beatles, Abbey Road and Miles Davis, Sorcerer. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1480005076607-HPYWYM6FIPO7HZV8RUQW/TLC_PortraitbyTracyLove.jpg Interviews Terri Lyne Carrington photographed by Tracy Love. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1480005188662-SKSW2RJ6JPOZNTXQWZ7X/image-asset.jpeg Interviews By Sharon Pendana https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1480343534147-A5CKDVZ19RK7LS3CYH67/image-asset.jpeg Interviews TLC with Clark Terry, Wayne Shorter and Carlos Santana, Nelson Mandela, Al Jarreau, Greg Osby and Cassandra Wilson, Herbie Hancock, Wallace Roney, Wayne Shorter, Vibe MD, Greg Phillanganes, Herbie Hancock, Vernon Jordan and Quincy Jones at the White House, Al Gore, performing with Valerie Simpson, Rachelle Ferrell, Lalah Hathaway and Cassandra Wilson and finally, rehearsing for an event at the Thelonious Monk Institute for Jazz with the remaining members of the Second Great Miles Davis Quintet: Ron Carter, bass; Herbie Hancock, piano; Wayne Shorter, saxophone. Photo with Clark Terry, Jet magazine. All others courtesy of Terri Lyne Carrington. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1479269592463-Q5OY6S80B6MSNESBWI4G/image-asset.jpeg Interviews After living in New York and Los Angeles, Terri Lyne returned to her Boston-area hometown to be near her beloved parents, Judy and Sonny Carrington, and join the Berklee faculty. Some of her most treasured moments are spent at family gatherings. "Nothing like spending time with family," she says. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1479696260833-2TO4X0AGU6UO3OR41CCP/image-asset.jpeg Interviews Top left: Young Terri Lyne's idol Diana Ross at Studio 54; below TLC's take on white suit and tails with Roy Haynes. Center: Terri Lyne's Slingerland Drum ad appeared alongside a feature article on her in the October 1977 issue of Modern Drummer magazine. Top right: Drummer Buddy Rich, who helped the tween become the youngest endorser for Slingerland Drum Company (though she now endorses Yamaha drums) helps her on set of the advertising shoot. Below, Terri Lyne is flanked by drum greats Tony Williams and Roy Haynes. Personal photos courtesy of Terri Lyne Carrington. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1479320296080-1MKF98IWBYYDPNYIB1CR/image-asset.jpeg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1479305424481-JF4MAO1YFLSL9JA0JE6O/image-asset.jpeg Interviews The stunning Presidential Suite at Four Seasons Sydney overlooks Sydney Harbour and the Iconic Opera House. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1482721237993-H9DVPCANOD78MCEJHGRB/image-asset.jpeg Interviews He created Flying Colors in 1998 for a designer show house at Madam CJ Walker's former home, Villa Lewaro, benefiting the United Negro College Fund. It draws inspiration from the room’s “jockey” theme. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1480652706639-DH7QKTCWSKF8T82B15PC/image-asset.jpeg Interviews From his series of painted plexiglass over collage: The Sweeper; Earth, Woman, Spirit; Hair-Line; and The Salon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1482500959472-850MDRJ0S53DYS9ZYJ96/JJG_With_Lockard.jpg Interviews Jimmy with mentor John Onye Lockard, twenty-five years his senior. "I like this picture because I was at his elbow; his knowledge flowing into me." Photo courtesy of Jimmy James Greene. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1481995348340-CUT6V26MJ9QZ237UU29Y/image-asset.jpeg Interviews The Greene siblings: (from left) future engineer/city planner, Paul; future blind rehabilitation therapist, Jan; future anesthesiologist, Brenda; future radiologist, Judy, and always artist/musician Jimmy. Photo courtesy of Judy L. Greene. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1482514426997-2HSADANMBBGREGMGHY18/image-asset.jpeg Interviews His love of music finds its way into his visual art: (left) Monk's Dream and (right) Saint John [Coltrane}, watercolors, colored pencils and acrylics. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1482515877551-SB0412SYCZQ2FXCRHK39/image-asset.jpeg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1480658802175-PXWSPM2PTOHBW1SRY8ZJ/image-asset.jpeg Interviews Then and now: Jimmy and his beloved daughter, Loni. He and wife Sherri parted when Loni was just a toddler and co-parented from two homes. The teen years were challenging, but today, it's all love, all around. "I enjoy being a father," he says. Photos courtesy of Jimmy James Greene. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1482601734580-7H2161UIB0ON9D4YPD60/JJG_Fences_MasaiPassages.jpg Interviews From August Wilson's Century Cycle: A Visual Representation, characters from the play, Fences, Troy Maxson and his son, Cory represent the 1950’s. (left) Masai Passages, acrylic on canvas, (right) was created during The Moving Form, Jimmy's live performative collaboration with musician friends Baba Andrew Lamb and Wil Halsey. As the musicians play, Jimmy creates, free-hand, an impromptu artwork. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1481977793417-W2JG6IOC69PCMZV6AS7M/image-asset.jpeg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1482754003813-IOFE5LCYOXNW6KBYPQS8/image-asset.jpeg Interviews Theodore and Juanita Greene. Photo courtesy of Judy L . Greene. The Greene kids, southpaws all, at home in front of Greene's Apartments. (clockwise from left) Jan, Judy, Paul, Brenda and Jimmy. Photo courtesy of Aicha Greene. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1482715973810-7C82WDHHLLSPLGM3YJ0J/image-asset.jpeg Interviews Jim et Jules. Jimmy with Julia Chance. Photo courtesy of Judy L. Greene. The artist stands before Quiet Intensity, (dry pastels on toned board ) inspired by his muse, Julia. Her likeness appears in the stained glass window that he conceived for St. Phillip's Episcopal Church in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. Below, the completed window next to the study for its execution. Friend and fellow artist, Berton Ridley, inspired the male image. Photos courtesy of Jimmy James Greene. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1482514174327-8Z97U3ZD0TKP1GOIQTHG/image-asset.jpeg Interviews From the Adinkra series, Sankofa (left) and Ubiquity (right) both, acrylic on canvas. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1482640917652-PXY5CD5PDLP2FTCPWR2O/JJG_Name.jpg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1481976803586-U1W5HHQR2T2CUT4BEVP0/JJG_ElephantEars.jpg Interviews Photo courtesy of Jimmy James Greene. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1482698343217-CIAQBIN3AI15FF1UIUB4/image-asset.jpeg Interviews Jimmy, second from left, with fellow members of Mass Production in 1973. The photo appeared in the February 17, 1977 issue of Jet Magazine in an article on the death of drummer, Delbert Patterson, seated front center. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1480659125763-B8THP4AMHZ7TH51R16EI/image-asset.jpeg Interviews Casio G Shock Analog/Digital watch. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1481977893685-AJ2PFFWCM7QH2SY7AW6L/image-asset.jpeg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1482585141765-NHGSHBUDMPXMTDGYVE7S/image-asset.jpeg Interviews The original sketch for Cultivate, and the completed stained glass mosaic. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1482585576223-DUYC68KQ7LQN1TNJWJVS/image-asset.jpeg Interviews From the Ancestral Layers series, The Teacher, painted plexiglass over collage. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1482597031115-AHH91HJANWTWWRO7DJ2W/image-asset.jpeg Interviews With gallerist Kim Hamilton at his recent exhibition at Hamilton Landmark Gallery in Harlem. Featuring works from his People of Color, Adinkra and Romance series, he sold over a dozen works of art. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1482512405393-YR2B3K8QN7RKP8H6G55P/image-asset.png Interviews The Children's Cathedral, by Jimmy James Greene and the children of Bed-Stuy. Fabricator, Peter Columbo. Photo: Metropolitan Transit Authority. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1482641027686-F4RJQ48Y5DM69BG7XOG9/image-asset.jpeg Interviews The Troubadour, acrylic on canvas with collage elements. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1483478665060-CSNFYRJS1HF8OUAEW53C/image-asset.jpeg Interviews Jimmy James Greene photographed by Sharon Pendana for THE TROVE. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1480659212190-RKHGXS2U8TNL0SG8TDL9/image-asset.jpeg Interviews Tunisian Patchouli (left) and Almond Glow (right) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1481986935068-1XR1NK0WM7DORIW4D3EJ/JJG_Faves_1.jpg Interviews Analog https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1482722692007-ONTLKIO57HDTJWCWCPZN/image-asset.jpeg Interviews Jimmy James Greene at work, photographed by legendary creative director and artist, Hollis King. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1482507372132-Z5LQX7HI5C39UNTIFTMY/image-asset.jpeg Interviews Christ dragging the cross through the cotton field taunted by the overseer’s lash was the first image to come to him as he began the series. A jubilant nativity scene created in stained glass became the pièce de résistance. Only the watercolor study of the triptych survives. Images courtesy of Jimmy James Greene. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1499303062935-B42EGWWY14CH5R7YFBL2/image-asset.jpeg Interviews Delissa Reynolds photographed by Frank Ishman. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1501121897356-MW40FBN2AJAOHWC45XEF/static1.squarespace.jpg Interviews Photo: Tonchi Antunovich Finkin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1490194231689-8ZTCPCNOCC10W3JNVL4F/image-asset.jpeg Interviews (Left) Producers, Natasha Ferguson, S.Epatha Merkerson, and Delissa at at Justice Works benefit reception in 2005. Photo: Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images (Right) Errol Cockfield, Delissa and Andrea Bell at the Mayor Bloomberg Small Business Award Ceremony in 2013. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1498841499978-SG78XP250N53K0OXYF8F/image-asset.jpeg Interviews Celebrating her birthday with the brave firefighters of Engine 280/Ladder 132 in Brooklyn. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1499284076245-RCGFYS18H4HJJVP4EQPC/image-asset.jpeg Interviews And the bride wore vintage. The stunning bride and groom surrounded by love: Aunt Bernice and Uncle Malloy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1490239663576-R2PJI510N4A2XJ7IEIS4/image-asset.jpeg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1490192242100-KWN18JTLEXKOKT60Q23J/17103407_10155060149904935_1886099644984084185_n.jpg Interviews As Saint Monica with Judas (portrayed by Gabriel Furman) in Last Days of Judas Iscariot. Photo: LaMama Experimental Theatre Club https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1499286092504-RJ08N9LOQCHFH2EFNFUE/DR_MemorialWall.jpg Interviews One wall, hung with framed photographs of friends, Jerry Gonzalez, Todd Johnson, Marpessa Dawn Outlaw and Sekou Sundiata provides ancestral creative inspiration. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1498763993027-E41S0L3CI7YBG0YE1LC3/image-asset.jpeg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1499278347244-0IPDDGJ58F9X3A1NI9WC/image-asset.jpeg Interviews Cherished ephemera. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1499369130794-UMVW4HTLQUHMKKQ6EBEH/image-asset.jpeg Interviews The perfect country home a deux. Summer 2017 in East Meredith, Delissa and the doggie. Photo: Elia Lyssy https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1498944660105-IQ7PB0JV2673WN6OO1A2/image-asset.jpeg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1499034711229-EUOCK0Y5X2HFHCJOEHEI/image-asset.jpeg Interviews Kindergartner Delissa; photographed at Bar Sepia by Elia Lyssy; rocking a signature tee; and photographed by Sergio Kurhajec for O, The Oprah Magazine, 2011. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1490192405331-HY45QY5P85LBMNLVRUZR/image-asset.jpeg Interviews Bruce Springsteen and the Girls, Red Bank, NJ, 1979 © David Gahr https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1490148685825-TBHXKAX8DSWWD3SQ37GK/image-asset.jpeg Interviews Bar Sepia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1490188788644-PZVH9V4DGSBP1QQ945C5/image-asset.jpeg Interviews Halloween at Bar Sepia. Delissa and Elia with photographer, Gigi Stoll. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1498685130335-7L1YLLSNO03Y4R6SMOKE/image-asset.jpeg Interviews Gena Wheeler's headshot—Delissa's favorite pic of her mom; the movie poster for The Female Response, with ensemble billing; and a publicity still of "Victoria" in a scene from the film. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1499037268883-OM7KYZ40XMADCCX7YHHD/image-asset.jpeg Interviews Mary Louise Reynolds; Elia Lyssy as a small boy; a sketch of Elia, the cinematographer by none other than Tony Bennett; a sepia-toned treasure, the family's old New Jersey homestead (a wedding gift from Delissa's Uncle Marvin) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1499290962129-7EOA3L27LN3W3N724VH1/image-asset.jpeg Interviews Sepia Life: Delissa at the annual crawfish boil. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1490279253316-1G3BU0B1TQP8DL56JNGM/DR_WheelerReynolds.jpg Interviews Hard-working, industrious and generous, Mary Louise Reynolds (here with her grandchildren, Tina, Delissa and Julius) would eventually open the Reynolds Golden Age Day Care Center & Boarding Home for the elderly and mentally challenged. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1490307467629-GASMUB4I3SR2C6DXCUIC/image-asset.jpeg Interviews Elia at work; sweet Kika (Rest in Peace) and the grand couple of Bar Sepia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1498947908081-RJ3JGQQAK1HB5GQV5YYZ/image-asset.jpeg Interviews A vintage-inspired pretty from BHLDN. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1499273264472-YMYGIR0FFPEYXSKFWIOD/image-asset.jpeg Interviews "My nieces and nephews are amazing human beings and are beautiful people all around" Delissa says. "I'm very close to them and very proud of them." From left, Aja Cathcart, Davion Reynolds, Kai Reynolds, Monisha Knight, Raymond Jackson and in front, Danielle Jackson. (Not pictured, Shaun Burgess) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1490407585772-8A5ZK06PZ73RK45QUXWH/image-asset.jpeg Interviews "They started my transformation." Monisha and Aja flank their Aunt "Lisa." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1490407090857-U42EAEQVNCEAL8WUP0DM/DR_DDM.jpg Interviews Delissa Reynolds, Donna Gorsline and Marpessa Dawn Outlaw, circa early 90's. "The three of us became inseparable." The duo became a trio when Delissa and Marpessa met the vibrant Donna as she worked the door at the premiere party for Spike Lee's Jungle Fever. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1498946393038-JZRUB4Z6W4J9DA7RIRTP/image-asset.jpeg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1493568821892-BHCNWD47V8X9GQOB61ZG/JS_NH_Family.jpg Interviews View from the dock; Jan and Moe. The family gathers for dinner. Photos courtesy of Janathel Shaw. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1493552270193-X3K5XJM5J97OQO5VJHOO/image-asset.jpeg Interviews Janathel Shaw, Self Portrait, ©2012 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1493578588894-7F8XE9EKCP4KQ759O8IJ/image-asset.jpeg Interviews The teacher, working on theatrical set design with her DCPS students. Photo courtesy Janathel Shaw. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1493593763303-DS8CTY0009G4P6T2HLXR/image-asset.jpeg Interviews Seated near African American sculptor Edmonia Lewis' famed 1876 sculpture, Death of Cleopatra, Janathel sketches the 1905 Elisabet Ney marble, Lady Macbeth at SAAM. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1493594845682-F7IBAXF4N5S2X1ZB066S/image-asset.jpeg Interviews The grad student working on Sistah Anger from her ©1994 Sistah series. Photo by Andrew White. A work, cut and hollowed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1492395071732-J8G2SF85XUSTPCJ1Z5R2/image-asset.jpeg Interviews Star Wars introduced one of the most favorite cinematic robot duos of all time: the astromech , R2-D2 and his humanoid counterpart, C-3PO. RIght, Maurice's interpretation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1493577318705-FZRU1UTYULEUG40D165X/image-asset.jpeg Interviews Janathel has never shied away from political art. Left, Still A N___/No Entry, ©2014 In her latest show, SOLIDAREity! she presents the powerful archival piece, because it remains as painfully relevant today as iit did when she created it as a grad student. Death God fo da Young'ns, ©1995 (installation) Ceramic with glaze, bullet casings, gravel and wood. She explains: "Death God grew out of my sorrow for the continued loss of young lives to violence, miseducation, misguided manhood rights and societal violence. The ceramic figure represents a deity that demands and feeds off the tragic deaths and unknown possibilities. The scarifications on the body are shown defiantly, and the visage of the figure is a distortion of what should have been a shaman or spiritual figure. At the base of the form lies bullet casings and empty shells of urban warfare. Some of the casings were actually found in a playground." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1492048111319-D9SGB5WKLFF0HJMPNSOD/image-asset.jpeg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1493661875575-AMIR6CRQJTJKQ38JPY29/image-asset.jpeg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1492008971134-2OFZ0H21OBKTBZ872HNL/image-asset.jpeg Interviews Left, Joseph H. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, designed by Gordon Bunshaft of SOM © Ezra Stoller | Esto. Right , Robert Arneson, General Nuke, 1984, glazed ceramic and bronze on granite base. Collection of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1492113232800-EFSGN2X6KGINIXGEKWGW/image-asset.jpeg Interviews Janathel makes no apology for the variety of her favorite authors. Here, a few including Nikki Giovanni's Ego-Tripping. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1492019581826-LEBA5EG7ILLG8YA6AT6L/image-asset.jpeg Interviews Detail from Charles White, Untitled, 1950, ink and graphite on paper. Collection of Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Julie Seitzman and museum purchase through the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1493593108371-BUQFPDUSMTUEZIM0GI6M/JS_Drawing.jpg Interviews Elizabeth Catlett at work on a bust. Dancing, 1990, Color lithograph. Target, 1970, Bronze. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1493557008584-VG2VVAYF2KIQWBODRITG/JS_GraphiteDrawings_%C2%A9JanathelShaw.jpg Interviews Drawing was Janathel's first medium in childhood, and to this day she puts pencil to paper, often in large graphite portraits. From left, her sister, Dorethea studies Here to Stay, ©2017 center, Prodigal Son, ©2015, a rendering of her son Maurice; a gallery patron stands before The Poet, ©2015. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1492013412384-FPIURL06WNJCRX9CZQ30/image-asset.jpeg Interviews Magdalene Anyango N. Odundo , Reduced Mixed-Color Symmetrical Piece, 1990, ceramic, slip, Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1493590892725-ODFITZ2DBVXLKYN406UL/image-asset.jpeg Interviews Elizabeth Catlett, Singing Head, 1980, black Mexican marble. Collection of Smithsonian American Art Museum, a work that deeply inspired the young visual art student. Senior portrait, Duke Ellington School of the Arts 1980 yearbook. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1493574578563-LBNUBDCR0VUTF97HLEMZ/image-asset.png Interviews Future Deferred, ©2015 I wanted to acknowledge the death of the young men who died like Jordan Davis, Michael Brown, Trayvon Martin and Tamir Rice, the little boy who was killed for playing with a toy gun." Using sgraffito technique —drawing on clay–she "tattooed" their faces on the neck. She'd made the piece all white to try to emulate white marble sculpture," and showed it in her show Unspoken Messages. At the time, Moe suggested that making the figure black would have given the piece greater impact. "It wasn't until shortly after his passing that I looked at it and I realize I'd chosen a crackle glaze and I chose it for a reason. I'd done all the tattoos; I'd done the drawing in sgraffito and thought it does need the high contrast of black, not just in terms of the message of black pride and strength but to be able to see it. Also, it looks like it's undergone some travail but hasn't stripped away its dignity. I put in a black stain on top of it, and the piece just went Pow! I said, 'Maurice, baby you were right.' He was right. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1493553271970-AF4NHBHPGC8XBMGKEW86/image-asset.jpeg Interviews Maurice Kewan Shaw. Jan's gentle, beloved Moe. May he rest in eternal peace. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1496580211319-5SBQ22GYMAUWCNN2UC7J/image-asset.jpeg Interviews Agua for Papa upon his return from playing. ©David Cea/dac photos https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1496580049072-RUN1US86ET5TMP5FCK5U/image-asset.jpeg Interviews Biker and boots. Photo courtesy of David Cea. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1496589552728-LACGYCZOUZ3KVE976BK3/image-asset.jpeg Interviews Lucy. ©David Cea/ dac photos https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1496347172557-9KAW3SATMZKPUQYXDKXV/image-asset.jpeg Interviews Unbridled love and joy, the Cea way of life. Photos courtesy of David Cea. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1496588843511-WMP0O24D6P2XJSQNWW69/image-asset.jpeg Interviews Las niñas. ©David Cea/ dac photos https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1496593388311-WMABW6OQQGTRM77I43Q7/image-asset.jpeg Interviews The woods of Las Apalaches (the Appalachian Mountains) ©David Cea/dac photos https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1496693479755-ARN2QMIHEXHB3O20CD8F/image-asset.jpeg Interviews Danza Con El Sol. (Lucy) ©David Cea/ dac photos https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1496688234083-F482WLNRY7AP029CVZP2/image-asset.png Interviews A page from the photo album: teenagers David and Lucy. Courtesy of David Cea. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1496715208319-GFH83OB7S7L6HZ5NLOCV/image-asset.jpeg Interviews ©David Cea/dac photos https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1496583910357-1K90R21IY6ZJFHTGJEOV/image-asset.jpeg Interviews (Top) A salvaged door and a pair of paisley pants are up-cycled as a funky credenza in David's hands. (Below) For his November 2015 exhibition at the State Theater in Culpepper, VIrginia of portraits of Latin American people in Panchimalco and San Salvador, Guatemala and Nicaragua, he thought, "how can I show the pictures? The people are in the mountains. They use what they have, they reuse." Then he came across some discarded wooden fencing, cleaned it up, cut it up, and created frames on which to mount their images to "celebrate their resilience." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1496590235384-D5UZ2XK7THMUWDO59QCQ/image-asset.jpeg Interviews Elders. (Left) Panchimalquense woman. (Right) Protestor among an alliance of pipeline fighters, ranchers, farmers, tribal communities, and their friends rallied in Washington DC in April 2014 to fight against Keystone XL. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1496597327150-Z1CN3SD7GNR6M943I4OT/DAC_Familia.jpg Interviews Brothers Gustavo, Hugo and little David, cousin Daniel and sister Evelyn. Photo courtesy of David Cea. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1496592411326-TB2IFMJMZACKK3EO2UTN/image-asset.jpeg Interviews Besos . Photo courtesy of David Cea. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1496595792986-QB0JDUP9T1KJL1L9TC95/18121441_10154878590054425_4437760089530390843_o.jpg Interviews Family outing in nature. ©David Cea/ dac photos https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1496592829727-8SUZU2PFK9EWM6FEUORH/image-asset.jpeg Interviews Photo courtesy David Cea. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1496580889340-CG2KOSV466LIIOYG164R/image-asset.jpeg Interviews Lucy at the bonfire. ©David Cea/dac photos https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1496591534141-NILEVSUGMSM77DOHLM56/DAC_collects.jpg Interviews ©David Cea/ dac photos https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1496353416342-UFVKGY30CPJNEARXQGN1/image-asset.jpeg Interviews Photo ©David Cea/dac photos https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1496693077837-CM4DB9UF8KQB1TKPWDW1/image-asset.jpeg Interviews "Peace Be With You," hangs in front of Casa Cea. On the opposite side of the sign is Bienvenidos ("Welcome") ©David Cea/ dac photos https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1496595552066-FYC0BZ07RG3NWEJE6LX0/image-asset.jpeg Interviews Lulu dances. ©David Cea/ dac photos https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1496589770592-7NHNCNO0DPIOJPATMRZ3/image-asset.jpeg Interviews Chinatown, Washington, DC. ©David Cea/ dac photos https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1496343505370-I7HG0A172Z4OIUW9Z80P/image-asset.jpeg Interviews David Cea, Self-portrait, 2017. ©David Cea/dac photos https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1496595616161-VN3YMOCI2IGQL7TAVJ7M/image-asset.jpeg Interviews Nissa's morning: breakfast of mathematicians. ©David Cea/ dac photos https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1496588998369-BBMQOJHZMDT09NIJDTR8/image-asset.jpeg Interviews Brian, The Sound of the Sun ©David Cea/ dac photos https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1496582965529-SN5DWZ089TDWFQ5WEFRA/DAC_Letters.jpg Interviews "When Lucy was in the States we were writing letters every day almost. There were no emails, it was paper. Love letters." Photo ©David Cea/dac photos https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1496591330763-NICBVC65R93HQ2ZF3FD7/image-asset.jpeg Interviews Photos courtesy of David Cea. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1496702040561-DHE9KP00R84SUWLVAH0W/DavidCea.jpg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1505399664349-O8KHBHPJG7U74TS8V9CI/LJP_PullQuote.jpg Interviews Photo by Yoshinori Hashimoto for The Peculiar Patriot. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1507052915741-T3CJ6VGSDZF5BCONTG4Q/LJP_Portrait_byFVNielsenII_TheTrove.jpg Interviews Liza Jessie Peterson photographed in Brooklyn by Frederick V. Nielsen II for THE TROVE. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1506118650739-4OC9ZR5YX8UZODEJ237J/LJP_Spell_Jacket.jpg Interviews Photo by Frederick V. Nielsen II for THE TROVE https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1505390965232-EJ5OHGE8CSGGVCW2WC47/LJP_Jewelry_.jpg Interviews Photos : Frederick V. Nielsen II for THE TROVE. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1505768694621-3WO1DNQ8PGSEXQIXMMND/LJP_EarlyDays.jpg Interviews Baby Lee Lee; Afros and turtlenecks—twinning with mom; Ninth grade: snatchback, gold hoops and no pork on her fork; Laura Biagiotti shades and a Dior bag-working the wicker and rocking the boots is a theme she'll reprise in a glamazon calendar. Photos courtesy of Liza Jessie Peterson. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1506163760182-LBQCVZE8MLRKP4IZGV4U/LJP_WP_WWII.jpg Interviews William T. Peterson, decorated veteran under the command of Gen. Douglas MacArthur in the South Pacific during WWII and proud father of Georgetown University graduate, Liza. Photos courtesy of Liza Jessie Peterson. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1506035094941-GSWFBEJSN3OBG7U6CGNX/LJP_Claudine.jpg Interviews Claudine (Diahann Carroll), her six children and new husband, Rupert (James Earl Jones) walk triumphantly down a Harlem street on their wedding day. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1506451443621-1SM5W9WJ1Q1WM4TZKF7O/TheTROVE_LizaJessiePeterson.jpg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1506571790466-VQDK2NI2JL5RVAWET36E/LJP_SummerstageLJP_Rux_HotSauce.jpg Interviews From the page to the stage, wokring it out with Carl Hancock Rux at Central Park Summerstage. Healing in a jar, Liza's Gangsta Goddess Hot Sauce. Photos: Sharon Pendana https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1505351940640-7NEEAJ72KVYG28M4JPLD/LJP_Ankh_c1931pic.jpg Interviews Family photo courtesy of Liza Jessie Peterson. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1506037474655-WEC12YWUYW3CI11IIVX8/LJP_kmtc.jpg Interviews Left, In Kemet: "Our holy book is written in stone, not paper, baby." RIght, Initiate of Queen Afua's Sacred Woman Village. Photos courtesy of Liza Jessie Peterson. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1505397696579-KZZ218LZQSNKTARJTRYA/LJP_Ava_13th.jpg Interviews With Ava Duvernay on the set of the Emmy award-winning, 13th. "I was honored to have been interviewed for 13th. Ava's an artivist too, her activism really comes strong through her art . I’m putting it in the ether that I hope my work will land on her radar. I just hope our energies reconnect I would LOVE to work with her. It would be a dream come true; our sensibilities are so aligned. I’d love for her to come see Peculiar Patriot." Photos courtesy of Liza Jessie Peterson. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1505359197859-3YWDFZOQAJRFVGI8XDHF/LJP_WineAndKale.jpg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1506166856771-3HHPGSB91OMFJJU9RXXG/LJP_WithDanny%2BUncleRon_SlamCrew.jpg Interviews Above, Liza with fellow artivist , Danny Simmons and "Uncle Ron," jazz legend, Ron Carter at BRIC Arts in 2015. Below, Liza with Saul Williams, Sonja Sohn and Bönz Malone at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival for the Grand Jury Prize-winning film, Slam; the film's editor, Emir Lewis in the background. Photos courtesy of Liza Jessie Peterson. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1506155558862-RR861TQV2O4XYMWM1QTL/LJP_BelovedFam.jpg Interviews Cherished family: William Toney. Peterson, Helen Thornton Peterson and Leslie Esdaile Banks (née Peterson) May they rest in peace. Photos courtesy of Liza Jessie Peterson. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1506451293990-235BY3POG881UGAJYY7K/LJP_by_FrederickVNielsenII_TROVE.jpg Interviews Liza Jessie Peterson photographed by Frederick V. Nielsen II for THE TROVE. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1505352910913-414O57MWT57ZADIN3OC3/LJP_MomsJournals.jpg Interviews Helen Peterson, Liza's mom, and one of her journals. Photo: Frederick V. Nielsen II for THE TROVE. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1506177510221-YAYFD5KZEWUG6YGZTRCX/LJP_Paris_Modeling.jpg Interviews WIth Claude in Paris; the model on set. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1505401241827-TGSWC7OFZM0OJUJBY311/LJP_RecordingAllDayAudiobook.jpg Interviews LJP records the audiobook for her incredible book, All Day: A Year of Love and Survival Teaching Incarcerated Kids at Rikers Island. Photos courtesy of Liza Jessie Peterson and Hachette Book Group. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1506036164074-LVXZ4QX1PVNPC6S0ZWG2/LJP_ChildrensLaughter.jpg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1522514075554-5W3M3HPJZMWGVEGLM77D/CW_Lamar_Joan.jpg Interviews The debonair Air Force bombadier and the Catholic girls' school beauty. Photos courtesy of Crystal Whaley. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1522891720199-G8GL5XO6N6KCH6ACQ17U/CW_MXGM_Cuba.jpg Interviews Parading in Cuba. Photo courtesy of Crystal Whaley. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1522462725076-6VAF3EZUH5VNK6E5TW69/CW_Kissing.jpg Interviews Among the images she loves: A Late Night Kiss, Harlem, 1951 by George S. Zimbel and Carnevale di Rio, Brasile, 1973 by Mario De Biasi, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1522943854341-PZQ2JY8BPWG2FLVFVNF6/CW_HS.jpg Interviews Crystal's Immaculate Heart High School years: Cheerleading; hanging with her girls; tonsorial standard in the 'hood; gathered in her bedroom before heading to an "all-night punk soirée;" graduation at the Hollywood Bowl. Photos courtesy of Crystal Whaley. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1522551970063-CFLYYKGYS58OHBMIQZ28/CW_FabulousHair.jpg Interviews Celebratory hair: Joan and Crissy at Christmastime; Crystal channeling her "mama muse" for her birthday. Photos courtesy of Crystal Whaley. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1522467191418-3HXOGADYOVWUSE9YNJLU/CW_Porches.jpg Interviews Young Crissy; photo courtesy of Crystal Whaley. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1522945948436-DRPF9INWS48XEGKEOPR4/CW_UptownRecords.jpg Interviews Crystal, third from left, and the team at Uptown Records, surround label founder, Andre Harrell. Photos courtesy of Crystal Whaley. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1522952172622-R0LFMPRRTY2HGHLY86H8/CW_CWhaley_TheTROVE_PullQuote.jpg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1522953261191-H30GOH9CK1CO2T28JQWT/CW_MfonPolaroid_MfonBook.jpg Interviews As Mfon Essien's photo assistant, Crystal would sit in for subjects as Mfon adjusted her lighting. Here, one of many polaroid portraits. The inaugural publication of MFON: Women Photographers of the African Diaspora. Photos courtesy of Crystal Whaley. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1522550866560-7PY4ILXX56IPDEHZQKZD/CW_MDearWithAndWithCrystal.jpg Interviews Ineice "M'Dear" Mercer, baby Crissy and Joan Mercer Whaley; Joan and her mama, M'Dear; College graduate Crystal and her grandmama, M'Dear. Photos courtesy of Crystal Whaley. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1523196501022-HALOTPAXLU2YHOI5LQOX/CW_EmmyAwards_Portrait.jpg Interviews Emmy award-winning producer Crystal Whaley holds one of her two gilded, winged women. Photographed by Helen Williams Nurse. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1522552196724-YU556EKPZAT0ZP7KUTTJ/CW_JuneMurphy_JonHaggins.png Interviews "Auntie" June Murphy's surprise 1970's wedding day to New York designer, Jon Haggins, wearing a dress of his design. Photographer Bill Cunningham shooting the festivities on the far left. Photo: Jack Manning/New York Times. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1523110657049-JAK82JTSHLSPREPHDTKA/CW_ThroughTheYears.jpg Interviews Crissy at three; 80's fashionista in high school; fly and forty-something, the photographer/curator stands before her work. Photos courtesy of Crystal Whaley. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1523120621263-FP07J4XKK0U27GWBAXPG/CW_Sorors_Sisters.jpg Interviews With elder soror, Katherine 'Kitty' Solomon who was also initiated at Howard University; the founding members of Oyá's Elements; and the new millennium Oyás sistren. Photos courtesy of Crystal Whaley. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1522948129490-9XFV3WPWV29LFKZ2LTJ5/CW_MUV.jpg Interviews Dancing with Movement of the Urban Village. Photo courtesy of Crystal Whaley. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1523115654987-2GPJOE70BSDU2QJ8BGDW/CW_Howard.jpg Interviews The Howard years: With her head-turning mama; Crystal, second from right, with her AKA line sisters including bestie, Helen (in the red jacket); and a jubilant graduate in cap and gown. Photos courtesy of Crystal Whaley. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1522461031354-5LVQFK35NE69JRUXOY8I/CW_Dance.jpg Interviews Technics turntables; Joyfully getting her twirl on. Photo courtesy of Crystal Whaley. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1522942057608-7I1BUE84I5ZN0UB4EL4K/CW_Title.jpg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1522493298653-D25HMXNHKRQ284UEIDUM/CW_Faves_Images.jpg Interviews Paternal ancestors. Crystal's great grandmother, Birdie Hunt (second from the right) and her sisters. Photos courtesy of Crystal Whaley. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1522947009033-BTN6PQ15V9NQXDTIA6PW/CW_Since72.jpg Interviews Serving 'tude since '74. Photos courtesy of Crystal Whaley. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1522492719746-0CUTRWNZFZOY2LGEUUHS/CW_baths.jpg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1523112437231-R6KDLI91YB4F3ULUGYPX/CW_Family.jpg Interviews Crystal is grateful for the family that remains. Crissy and Dad, Lamar; Lamar Whaley, today; happy baby with Dad and Granddad; The grands. Photos courtesy of Crystal Whaley. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1522415210691-3OCRX15N8FL6KQ50ZT5A/CW_BondNo9_RedLip.jpg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1522441982221-U7KDD5IXU8T1T4H25EFJ/CW_BlackGirlMagic.jpg Interviews Black Girl Magic. Photo courtesy of Crystal Whaley. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1522548393720-KPZNE5ESDAXP9HYLVBMH/CW_Passport.jpg Interviews One of Crystal's early passports; exploring Cuba and her portrait of a Holy man in Lalibela, Ethiopia. Photos courtesy of Crystal Whaley. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1523123324465-I3TJ55PPVVNEFJOXLL3H/CW_WhaleyLife.jpg Interviews Joan and Lamar cut the wedding cake. And baby makes three. Photos courtesy of Crystal Whaley. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1522461142491-H2NG2GQ1SXHPOBAFA0RE/CW_Beach.jpg Interviews Double take: Crystal wearing a vibrant Martine's Dream caftan on Playa del Carmen, Mexico. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1514099291410-K2QZJ1NMC1OEOSURGH6Z/CR_Paris.jpg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1514309926773-JD780N5YBC2IXMYCBT34/CR_MJ_Stevie.jpg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1514100198452-W8Z8N5SWLXJ0WGAJ3G2Q/CR_TiffanyCross_Design.jpg Interviews Clay's cherished Tiffany & Co. sterling crosses are emblematic of his faith for sure, but they also represent clean, classic design. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1514103055653-I3B4N32D1Q5HZ2AKW0H3/CR_Books.jpg Interviews After writing three non-fiction books, including his memoir, Walking Tall, Clay made his foray into fiction with Christmas Is. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1514314428087-7XFFXHYYV4HURA62ZGFP/CR_RCCS2005.jpg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1514291845121-QIHA1HU43W6VYK4QAF4D/unnamed-1.jpg Interviews Photo: New York Air series © George Steinmetz https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1514311563111-PB50VM4YENVD8Z46NKQT/DisneyYears.jpg Interviews Goofy brings out the birthday cake for Donald's 50th birthday during Show Biz Is in 1984. Mickey and Donald visit the Eisenhower Executive Office Building which houses most of the offices for White House staff. Photos courtesy of Clay Rivers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1514381349922-ZI9ZI4RV1LRPJW16RNDJ/CR_PullQuote.jpg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1514395068309-UOXI4BP3XR23L447U782/CR_BestFriends.jpg Interviews Clay and Ms. Elsie Adams. Photos courtesy of Clay Rivers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1514101110780-JFSCLIM0A515LRKCMC3R/CR_GoodCocktail_Cooking.jpg Interviews Cocktail by Elliott Clark at Apartment Bartender. Cioppino from The Daily Meal. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1514098996054-7MOPVO7ZAIUH77KLIXJD/CR_Family.jpg Interviews The lovely "Connie" Rivers and her dashing husband, "Rosey" flank their beaming boy, who's clearly delighted by his tricycle. Photos courtesy of Clay Rivers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1514312483793-VAGQ11V65MSOKV7H9NT0/CR_Disney_Amenities.jpg Interviews Photo, left: Kristi Petersen Schoonover; right, courtesy of Clay Rivers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1514564247183-AYW0XZ1H80T4P5B2345O/CR_Jack_and_Knitting.png Interviews Samuel Jackson Pollack, known as "Jack" was Clay's second Bichon Frise; the first was "Bailey." Photos courtesy of Clay Rivers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1514319133723-6GUC3PL52S43MGDKF3OH/Clay-Rivers-Portrait.jpg Interviews Clay Rivers, photographed by Jeff Nicholson/The Shot Photography https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1514321990813-CF5MGR0R1HZ1CKW10EDF/Clay.jpg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1514560980272-G0DAZ71ZDFSTSL7TDPH1/CR_75thRCCS_Flight.jpg Interviews Flying high in the televised production of the 75th Anniversary of the Radio City Christmas Spectacular. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1514099337519-1U6NAF8DDHP25BY2G7RP/CR_MyFaith.jpg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1514564322914-33EWNR5SINNWKKKC9VC4/CR_RCCS75.jpg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1523287263045-40PBXMFF91B5U1OYA1XT/RB_KaiMilla.jpg Interviews From the sketchpad to the catwalk: Renaldo's design drawings fully articulate the look created for Mrs. Stevie Wonder's fashion line, Kai Milla. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1523297041385-QY76C9QTMYJBJIF9AK4N/RB_BeatleBoots_DrivingShoes.jpg Interviews Renaldo ushered in the new year rocking a tuxedo and Gucci patent Chelsea boots. RIght, from Tod’s Pre-Collection Spring/Summer 2011, the Gommino Loafer. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1523298978443-C4CW344FAQEW5KWGLR66/RB_SMeisel_PMcGrath.jpg Interviews From Vogue Italia, Meisel and McGrath’s fashion collaboration with Stylist Karl Templer and Hairstylist Guido, and supermodel Gisele Bundchen on the cover. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1523295447339-81UVMKTQLWP3K3D67PSF/RB_LittleBoyJoy.jpg Interviews Renaldo's beautifully illustrated holiday 2010 greeting card hearkens to his childhood days and the discovery of paper dolls. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1523297382250-PQU2GVZK20UQUFWJFVS5/RB_Eat_DrinkFaves.jpg Interviews The stylish interior, great food and proximity to the garment district make Elmo a favorite haunt of the fashion crowd. Renaldo gushes about Bongo: “If you like club–good house, the music will keep you coming back. It’s great!” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1523273742132-FJYUIGQ544PXFHZ3W58T/RB_FashionComics.jpg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1523286727639-AIBMPZKXAEXODHSWH91D/RB_LovesModels.jpg Interviews With Kimora Lee Simmons in the nineties and with former roomie, Coco Mitchell, circa 2011. "She still has my heart," he says. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1523288887984-97ALW8AGZG8L03KJSFCY/RB_Cashmere_DarkDenim.jpg Interviews He often shops Barneys New York for cashmere pieces. Raleigh Denim creates jeans in varying washes and silhouettes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1523297863081-B42DK22HWGNKSJ0UI4Q9/RB_RenTitle.jpg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1523226894009-Z5X54J6UMBRV68BVJBTN/RB_AntonioIllustrationOfRenaldo.jpg Interviews Immortalized in graphite by fashion legend, Antonio, Renaldo's image appeared as a chapter opener in the 1985 book, Antonio's Tales of the Thousand and One Nights. Original sketch from the exhibition, Antonio Lopez: Future Funk Fashion at El Museo del Barrio. Book image, Departures. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1523284504030-5VA8KYARTL362FJT90ND/RB_RenaldoLTD.jpg Interviews To Illustrate "the Jaw-Dropping Dress," Renaldo's matte jersey stunner photographed by Robert Tardio is featured in Lloyd Boston's The Style Checklist. The ever elegant Coco Mitchell, wears looks from the Renaldo, Ltd. Spring 2004 collection. Right photo courtesy of Renaldo Barnette. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1523226134928-Q4P4RYLM4Z67UFIG1XPI/RB_Renaldo_By_MichaelMcCollum.jpg Interviews Renaldo Barnette photographed by dear friend and fellow designer, Michael McCollom. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1523732054239-JZJCZQU4C1RD8IA9FCO5/RB_LauraAshley.jpg Interviews A project Renaldo worked on to revamp the Laura Ashley image was an all-encompassing vision for the brand from apparel to accessories and shoes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1523229005991-SY4EIL0B2COVXKYCNARS/RB_BarnetteFamily.jpg Interviews Lillian Barnette with her children, Phyllis, Corinzo, Eddie, Jr. and little Renaldo. Photo courtesy of Renaldo Barnette. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1523289375748-JJW6R9TYKJ4U7BWJILB2/RB_WhiteShirt_RoderickTung.jpg Interviews From the Spring 2011 collection of Los Angeles cardiologist-turned-haberdasher, Roderick Tung. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1532552041779-4UZB9CJHR79LKBZ7NPIU/MC_MEOPARIS.jpg Interviews MEO in Paris. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1532551978889-IYM1JLUM53WTE8QEJ2KB/MC_PARISMEO.jpg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1532552641754-HFR29MLW46BZBVDP9QCL/MC_MEOMURAL.jpg Interviews MEO in Paris. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1532551567618-KL3DH73W5M3KB0BS8IBN/MC_TheTROVE_NLSN.jpg Interviews The first-time dad tagged his son in many pieces; Nelson, then and now. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1532550192760-VZ2PL6TQVY9ZGL9DD1X3/MC_MylesinParis.jpg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1532550620503-5EI2WV0WTZRN8AY2NY93/Myles+Carter.jpg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1532552278820-MSA1EZXDH8W4M0T7B4SS/MC_MOREMEO.jpg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1532563000716-5BRU8C62RV1S9T0VLYIK/MC_MEOSneaker.jpg Interviews On the tongue, the “1″ train and on the side, his celebrated wall. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1532560468069-E6M0OXDQ03Y9N35Z1PQC/MC_5s_2009.jpg Interviews From the Skoto Gallery exhibition: 5′s, 2009, acrylic on canvas, 28 x 50 inches. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1532553256158-JQE0U0AHOFRWSUOW292T/MC_ChefMyles.jpg Interviews The art of cooking. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1532560025406-AWP6YEFBPZX4K1826TJB/MC_AtWork_0s_2010.jpg Interviews The artist at work. 0′s, 2010, acrylic on canvas, 32 x 32 inches. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1532564524268-XA2VESPIBI0UDNYMHZC7/MC_TROVEfaves2.jpg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1532563846145-HGCUS9OFTWWXIC95AU0B/MC_TroveFaves.jpg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1532550837151-8M9C2HC5X7G29V28V0SH/MC_fam.jpg Interviews Myles with his lovely parents; rocking the boots on a 1969 album cover with his Dad and big bro, RJ. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1532551168209-SWS7Y9K509IVJ9T9FMA6/image-asset.jpeg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1539894516679-SZE2NGTVL7D608WLQYHR/JA_MrAndMrs.jpg Interviews Beautiful MaameYaa; double wedding portraits; Harlem’s hot couple. Photos courtesy of Jeremiah Abiah. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1539910474413-DU5BG0CW5M95O6Q75GOZ/JA_PullQuote.jpg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1540764262265-FEIOHU9GH1ATYIGBFZI0/JA_+J_ABIAH.jpg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1539889711148-WKE5N5FHC3EJ3T920VOL/JA_The_Wiz.jpg Interviews The young student thespian at School of the Arts; as the cowardly lion in The Wiz. Photos courtesy of Jeremiah Abiah. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1539126251271-JUMTS1MODR10PVRA3WOP/JA_ThreadArt.jpg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1539891789119-F00QXSL13M1O9UYQ6XP2/JA_AMAsKente.jpg Interviews He rocked the red carpet, gloriously repping for Ghana in bold, vibrant kente at the recent American Music Awards, wowing the media along the way. Photos by Gwendolyn Quinn. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1539147793922-M8YTKYVFR40I0L1ID1NR/JA_ItalywithMom.jpg Interviews Ah, Roma. Gelato con Mamma. Photos courtesy of Jeremiah Abiah. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1539825585501-8A91FHEWWOHHXVEQG2ZU/JA_Sweetback.jpg Interviews A documentary on the “Sweetback” opera premiered in 2012. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1539146749502-JUD8IO6DTG5TL9MIVS3D/JA_ScarfLove.jpg Interviews Friend and famed illustrator, Robert Risko depicted Abiah in his ever-present scarf. Rocking his favorite in flight. Images courtesy of Jeremiah Abiah. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1539112256110-3OOJK3L8H04Y155F4PD5/JA_AbiahThruTheYears.jpg Interviews Through the years from a first bowtie to his first headshot to a confident and consummate professional. Photos courtesy of Jeremiah Abiah. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1539826996672-KTPFUH65ASCEJ5HYWIVU/JA_Recording.jpg Interviews From left: His first major label recording under his given name, and his three successive, independent releases as ABIAH with cover art by his longtime art director, Michael Boyd. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1539893437879-SWO5BYKGW9NY57S711MR/JA_AbiahWayClient.jpg Interviews With a few of the many clients of The ABIAH Way: Ben Vereen, Maysa, cast members from Too Proud to Beg, Kimberly Nichole, and Common (between them, “Piccolino”). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1540489893991-YTPT7FRSH91624IMDCIB/JA_Fam.jpg Interviews Jeremiah with his “Piccolino,” Italian for “little one” — the great nephew he feels privileged to help raise. Brilliant artists, Jeremiah and his “surprise” cousin, Robert Glasper. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1539112033472-GTQGAXK00M98IUSRYLKT/JA_MsPhyllis_LittleJ.jpg Interviews The lovely Ms. Phyllis Griffin and her baby boy. Photos courtesy of Jeremiah Abiah. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1539126605797-3878OU8Q5SFCL3AU33GM/JA_CherishedBooks.jpg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1539661186601-8YQCD1GE4RSN20VFID50/JA_NinaDebutAlbum_MissHotDamn_By+JimmyJamesGreene.jpg Interviews The original art for Little Girl Blue. (left) Artist Jimmy James Greene’s “Miss Hot Damn” (right) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1539126534153-OZOSCPI0ONUTUW2KM702/JA_RaptureAlbum.jpg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1540482770742-LA1SGJE3521UMDCFXI8N/JA_TROVEPortrait.jpg Interviews Jeremiah Abiah photographed by Denzel White & Cody Dash. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1539143585562-JOOL9V2NTD50ZYDF6EO9/JA_JeremiahsCooking.jpg Interviews Among his specialities: the spicy spinach and fish stew Nkontomire and Jollof rice. He good-naturedly scoffs at the Jollof Wars among African nations: “Everyone else makes red rice, Ghanaians make Jollof!” Photos courtesy of Jeremiah Abiah. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1539141032404-3C2EA37ZLCQYY0B7OJRC/JA_Kumasi_ByDanSloan.jpg Interviews Procession of the King of the Ashanti people at the Adae Festival. Photo by Dan Sloan. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1540489107389-XSGDKZBM0YLTUP2LCCZ3/JA_AbiahKente_RonaldJiPhoto.jpg Interviews ABIAH sings Nina Simone at Joe’s Pub at the Public Theater. Photograph by Ronald Ji Photography. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1539139197800-I5GL2LUFN6H3Z2LEXC8T/11921689_10206314760880648_6168838024384099205_n.jpg Interviews Photo: https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1539118003377-X9I0O63XD8CPQWM1ORR1/JA_CakeUVeryMuch.jpg Interviews Cake U Very Much still thrives. Among it’s offerings: Banana Pudding, Jeremiah’s specialty Red Velvet Cupcakes, The Heaven Cake (“like a pound cake”), and Strawberry Cheesecake. Photos courtesy of Jeremiah Abiah. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1539136020390-G6KCDNVGFQC1EHPERMMP/JA_BootCollection.jpg Interviews But a few from his collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1542425263875-DGKGTENEBFD4SC9CZBV4/WH_Sunrise.jpg Interviews Winter Sunrise by George Hodan. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1542433961120-OOAXAE77D8L610008B1B/WH_TheHookerFamily.jpg Interviews William, Donna and Yureesh. In recent years, father and son share the same smile and smooth pate. Photos courtesy of the Hooker Family. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1542429368293-FE6MGLU1EPK9H7GW4YAK/WH_ArcosantiBell.jpg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1543071198118-WNXP7B7YMCDQ39JJQ62W/William-Hooker-The_TROVE.png Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1542430644823-TOB9FWDG53P197DCSEVY/WH_TreasuredTexts.jpg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1542426308568-KKPDN4B83G8PL48RSH4I/WH_WilliamSpeaksatHome.jpg Interviews William Hooker photographed in his Manhattan home by Sharon Pendana for THE TROVE on September 11, 2018 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1542417712632-LG39B5LTIERR5GV9PP54/WH_FatherAndSon.jpg Interviews Baby Yureesh; The Hooker men. Photos courtesy of the Hooker Family. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1542648975206-WMKQ2AZK0A1IWWP5FFVE/WH_Recordings.jpg Interviews A few of the 60 + recordings William has made as a leader. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1541200062025-VYK73E92XYQDAO5DAIJH/WH_TROVEportrait_ByYusefJones.jpg Interviews William Hooker photographed by Yusef Jones for THE TROVE at Rhizome DC on August 19, 2018. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1542421721819-DBV5FAKCLUPLRDCP726J/WH_CharlesWhite_O_Freedom.jpg Interviews From Charles White: A Retrospective at MoMA.: O Freedom, 1956 Charcoal with crayon, erasing, stumping, and wash, on ivory illustration board. Courtesy Rennie Collection, Vancouver. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1542646118307-D7V5HAIUMDJKAX6WNMAE/image-asset.jpeg Interviews Photo by Jesse Hanley/Unsplash https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1542819730043-AWNIORLQ71NJ6QJACYLG/WH_WmHooker_YusefJonesPhotography_TheTROVE.jpg Interviews Photo: Yusef Jones Photography. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1543071478565-WZ5R571CSP1EJG3O6TMT/WH_Hooker-Family-of-New-Britain.jpg Interviews The Reverend and Mrs. Hooker of New Britain with their sons and daughters. Photo courtesy of William Hooker. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1542642614516-Z7B94M8VSY9RXSHE70TM/WH_WritingPoetry.jpg Interviews “Strokes of Amarys,” written by William Hooker on June 18, 2018. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1542594138499-TP1YCVE8MISHUU84YXD6/WH_WmHooker_by_YusefJones.jpg Interviews William Hooker photographed by Yusef Jones. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1542645358494-RUKIIZVOY1L8XFNVFL3W/image-asset.jpeg Interviews Photo by Hans Vivek/Unsplash https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1542636144172-H58LQA7HT8P0H9BPZ14O/WH_TheGarden.jpg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1545917919399-DIGTGJ0V1KT716G20XXL/CB_Cassandra-Bromfield_portrait_THE-TROVE.jpg Interviews Cassandra Bromfield photographed for THE TROVE at The Gadson Gallery in Harlem. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1546095406718-BTRB95DC4D280KZZKKAX/CB_Cassandra-and-Floyd-from-the-80s-on.jpg Interviews From joining the traditional Christmas Walk in the eighties to today, Floyd is still the one. Photos courtesy of Cassandra Bromfield. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1547132784995-1GON710IJ2ITSQY6WVO3/CB_Cassandra-Bromfield-Into-My-Life.jpg Interviews Cassandra’s reaction upon learning that Into My Life would debut at the Tribeca Film Festival; the filmmaking team enjoy the premiere; Cassandra on the terrace with Mom’s old Suoer 8; the Reel Sisters award statuette; and the filmmakers on the red carpet at Tribeca. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1546121758378-7Q2MLPQWJ8ZYIY6SXVC3/CB_St.Vincent-Cassandra-Bromfield-in-Puerto-Rico.jpg Interviews Left, St. Vincent, in the 1990s when the family made a “Roots” pilgrimage to lay a stone on Amy Bromfield’s grave. Right, Cassandra during her Puerto Rico residency. These Caribbean pops of color, aqua and coral, will recur in the color palette of her adult home. Photos courtesy of Cassandra Bromfield. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1546106001007-783EAHQ5XWUR412Q64TL/CB_Cassandra-Bromfield-Designs.jpg Interviews Cassandra’s designs move fluidly across the body. Photos courtesy of Cassandra Bromfield. Center photo: Photographer, Keston Duke, Hair: Khamit Kinks, Make up Artist Jewel Whinfield. Location: The home of Malene Barnett. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1545922798897-JJ7SI6GJ40O56RBDADH7/CB_Orfeu_Negro.jpg Interviews Breno Mello in the titular role of Marcel Camus’ Orfeu Negro (Black Orpheus). The 1959 film won both the Academy Award for Best Foreign-language Film and the Cannes Film Festival’s Palme d’Or, for its glorious reimagining of the Greek mythological love story of Orpheus and Eurydice set during Carnival in Rio. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1546026324972-QEI72PAFXKUHNN3YQCEA/CB_Lois-Stanley-in-Cassandra-Bromfield-coat.jpg Interviews Photographed by Ari Seth Cohen for his popular site, Advanced Style, Lois Kinley wears a coat bearing all the hallmarks of a Cassandra Bromfield bespoke creation, with patchwork, beading and embroidery. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1546037604299-F4FY95Q7G20ZWM0P0RJ3/CB_Cassandra-Bromfield-press-Essence-and-Brides-magazines.jpg Interviews Cassandra’s bridal designs landed in the pages of Essence (on model and costume designer, Zulema Griffin) and Brides magazines (Note the Twin Towers in the background during the last year of their existence) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1546041307495-FUZYRAP99RHL2UZILK6G/CB_Cassandra-Bromfield-through-the-years.jpg Interviews From toddler to today, Cassandra Ann Bromfield. Photos courtesy of Cassandra Bromfield https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1546010707871-V8VYBFA1Z0RCVLNC5VW6/CB_Cassandra-Bromfield-toy-duck.jpg Interviews Several framed paintings and drawings by her father adorn the walls of Cassandra’s home, including the one above, inspired by her photograph. Photos courtesy of Cassandra Bromfield. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1546142750134-HRMTMOH3TD5071N972CX/CB_The-Bromfields-and-Samuels-drawing+copy.jpg Interviews Elaine and Samuel Bromfield with their infant daughter; Cassandra in profile and the charcoal drawing it inspired her father to create; Samuel Bromfield during the holidays – one of the last times Cassandra saw him. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1545965859423-7OO1EH6O7JAX3DBWVG07/CB_lock-machine_8mm-film.jpg Interviews Her overlocking machine and a couple of reels from her mother’s cache of 8mm film. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1546440709458-SDG5VVR8T7OG807OITQI/CB_Cassandra-Bromfield_Pull-Quote.jpg Interviews The Bromfields of Lindsay Park. Photo courtesy of Cassandra Bromfield. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1545963669256-W66AZE2XCCI6MYOYKJN6/CB_Juicy-Mangoes-by-Devina-Divecha.png Interviews Photo by Devina Divecha. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1543187112302-6Y9DN1ZM1RZOXB7Q3IGP/CB_vintage-eyeglass-collection-aunt-hulda.jpg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1546388719399-P6VML5L72VM93GDEOWCI/CB_Cassandra-Bromfield_home.jpg Interviews Cassandra’s “new old apartment” is shaping up into a place of creativity and respite. Her button embellishments festoon both a patchwork tunic and the Cameroonian cache-sexe, which in her hands becomes a lampshade. Indirectly mimicking its diamond pattern is her geometric detail on the entry closet. The Keita Turner-designed kitchen faces the dining room, where Cassandra continues work on an abstract wall mural. And in the bedroom, pillows featuring her astrological sign adorn her bedd topped by a gorgeous indigo-dyed textile gifted her by Audrey Smaltz. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1546175882296-IGJDKLU282KU7KZKVY2J/CB_Cassandra-Bromfield_Family-photos-2.jpg Interviews Clockwise: Elaine’s mother, Amy Matthews of St. Vincent; the Matthews children: Hulda, “Sammy”, M. Elaine and little Wilmoth; Cora and Samuel “Poppy” Matthews; Beautiful Elaine; Sammy’s glamorous wife, Leonora “Nona” Matthews; Elaine leads the bass section at Washington Irving High School in 1941; Elaine stands in front of the family’s MacDonough Street brownstone in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn (she was never one to claim the moniker “Bed-Stuy”). Photos courtesy of Cassandra Bromfield. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1545968693891-C82GC1K1NN1XZJLLL39I/CB_Cassandra_Bromfield-hand-dyed-four-ply-silks.jpg Interviews Cassandra tie-dyes smooth, lustrous 4-ply silk which takes color beautifully. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1546030902991-8ZTC1JXEMUAEXJ1FRT2N/CB_Ruby-Dee-wearing-designs-by-Cassandra-Bromfield.png Interviews Ruby Dee, elegantly swathed in four-ply silk designs by Cassandra Bromfield. A vision in white, she speaks with Angela Bassett at Oprah’s The Legends Ball in 2005.. On the night she won Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role for American Gangster as “Mama Lucas” at the 14th Annual Screen Actor’s Guild Awards, she wore an embroidered lace-trimmed, silk bias-cut gown embellished with colored pearls, mother of pearl leaf beads and amber quartz beads. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1545928191404-WH69XAKWIXWE7N8L4CUV/CB_JeweledBull.jpg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1546142306825-3G1MEHB8758VRA8BWOAH/CB_Cassandra-Bromfield-bridal-designs.jpg Interviews From sleek, modernity to billowing yardage and signature patchwork, Cassandra’s designs enhance the beauty and suit the personalities of her bridal clients. She even creates exquisite, handmade ring pillows. Photos courtesy of Cassandra Bromfield. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1546180232800-065TS9C9RE89LM6PCBX5/CB_Cassandra-Bromfield-Photography.jpg Interviews As always, her mother supported her passions, photography among them. From left, M. Elaine Bromfield in a study of pattern and texture; beauty in the blight of West 127th Street. Photos by and courtesy of Cassandra Bromfield. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1545918744848-SKC4DD1SAOKYF6P54XJP/Cassandra-Bromfield_THE-TROVE.jpg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1545918855021-3V4GFWU5BM92UOB45CXV/CB_Bromfield-women-graduate.jpg Interviews The graduates, Elaine and Cassandra. Photos courtesy of Cassandra Bromfield. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1546739389135-XS9UKYDIDNNCKNJ36WZR/OD_On-Davis-favorite-jewelry.jpg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1546716698403-7MVPF5PCIH8TO16SH5EF/OD_On-Davis-photographed-by-Yusef-Jones-for-THE_TROVE.jpg Interviews On Davis photographed by Yusef Jones for THE TROVE. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1546720444210-T0FRVDLKOX5GM876B5K0/On+Davis.jpg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1546781901666-LIPOU9RDW4AGT9XHDYZO/On-Davis-Nina-Chanel-Abney.jpg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1546825725869-4PY1JW26QHDFDLNXAODE/OD_On-Davis-family.jpg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1546823474139-YBEIX4L2DVA6UAE12NUJ/OD_On-Davis_+Grandmother-Vernice-Kennedy.jpg Interviews Displayed in his living room is this photo of his grandmother long before he was a thought: the jazz-singing, piano-playing Vernice Kennedy at 19-years-old. Photo courtesy of On Davis. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1546718854098-U8RG2OVVWIX0CJ7GQV98/OD_On-Davis-classical-guitar.jpg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1546717954691-ODWEHZV42QU76T2OH06Y/unspecified-2.jpg Interviews Blazing. Photo by Yusef Jones for THE TROVE. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1546739183194-A7TKDY5957WDZ7UHN32R/OD_On-Davis_Pull-Quote.jpg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1546781835459-228QZ5SXUHDZVF0MZ2N6/OD_On-Davis_Chelsea-pull-quote.jpg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1550863550090-CP9W9UEOXR74WXDM3G9Y/EB_TheMrs..jpg Interviews Andrea Fairweather Bailey at the 20th anniversary celebration of the pioneering mobile beauty service, Fairweather Faces; The Mr. and Mrs. Wedding photos by Ocean Morisset. All photos courtesy of Eddie Bailey III. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1550864560812-IJHH30TR0D7TKIMR5NNH/EB_EPs_LYates.jpg Interviews Co-executive producers, Andrea and Eddie represent in MM logo tees: Jooker, choreographer and dance instructor Ladia Yates in a still from Memphis Majic. Photos courtesy of The Savoy Media Group. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1550875355833-HNCUBJX13IGLCWPNXGJ8/true-detective-season-3-episode-7.jpg Interviews Mahershala Ali as “Detective Wayne Hays“ in season three of HBO’s True Detective. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1550877951260-1U0TGO8HGZASP5IQAEC3/EB_Histories.jpg Interviews His current read on Denmark Vesey by David Robertson'; American Slavery, American Freedom by Edmund Morgan; and Beale Street Dynasty: Sex, Song and the Struggle for the Soul of Memphis by historian Preston Lauterbach, who appears in Memphis Majic. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1550897007062-WEQN3MSWM5PKTL4B99XK/Famous-Modern-Architecture-don-uacom-Page-25760%2C-famous-modern-architecture-on-1600x1200-famous-spain-architecture-of-the-most-famous-parts-25760.jpg Interviews A stroll along the High Line in Chelsea reveals Zaha Hadid’s 11-story condo building at 520 W. 28th Street. Interestingly, the late Hadid was not licensed to practice architecture in New York State, so she is credited as “designer” while the architect of note is the NYC-based firm, Ismael Levya Architects. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1550859886023-PSE2ZSUZR10QO9TOTGFB/EBJr_EBIII_VCJ.jpg Interviews The folks who made him happen. Eddie Bailey, Jr., and Vicki Johnson flank an infant portrait of their son. Photos courtesy of Eddie Bailey III. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1550862450303-3DJEFJZ5AJJTWLQCOREC/EB_Kip-through-the-years.jpg Interviews “Kip” Bailey’s Southern childhood: Circa Christmas 1981 in Memphis; third grade; Our Lady of Lourdes School, Atlanta, 1992; and rocking Hilfiger circa 1996. Photos courtesy of Eddie Bailey III. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1550874711630-BIQ5VDPUGL0RAHTYQIHT/braised-beef1000.jpg Interviews Braised beef in red wine. Photo: Essential Pepin. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1550876863550-586K6XDC9OJ6S1CVOEGN/EB_Chillmode.jpg Interviews Neon bar sign photo by Anvesh Reddy on Unsplash. The mobile beauty entrepreneur and filmmaker chilling in DUMBO. Photo courtesy of Eddie Bailey III. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1550422511913-2BXRMTWVPGE5PIQHZ1MU/Eddie.jpg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1550893618532-U68BFP0GNS824TM3KD15/0-2.jpg Interviews Mr. Theodore Roosevelt Johnson. Photo courtesy of Eddie Bailey III. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1550903312945-3W8OWLILTU7C8QCQ7Y76/EB_Time-with-fam.jpg Interviews Eddie’s mama, Vicki Carol Johnson and her mama, Annie Mae Avery Johnson in Tampa for a wedding, 2005. Eddie Savoy Bailey in triplicate at Christmastime in the early aughts: Eddies Senior, Junior and the Third; and Eddie’s sister, US Naval Lieutenant, Erin Bailey, DDS graduates from Howard University College of Dentistry in Washington, DC, 2012. Photos courtesy of Eddie Bailey III. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1550898694807-MAAXDWID4PZRGWV1Z1KK/EB_Grandparents.png Interviews The Grands: Theodore and Annie Mae Johnson; and Eddie, Sr. and Barbara Bailey. Photos courtesy of Eddie Bailey III. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1550874239318-6THNE1H7SPRQJK18ZDT8/EB_Amtrak.jpg Interviews Amtrak’s Acela Express travels the Northeast Corridor. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1550422480876-NHZK4WCEY2N8AITWD908/THE_TROVE_EddieBailey.jpg Interviews Eddie Bailey photographed in Brooklyn by Sabrina Thompson. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1550885401791-4I7N4U63MYPVWS0SEQSZ/EB_HBCU-Pull-Quotejpg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1550870257356-PP6JST3DFQ571GLU8JF4/EB_Savoy-Media-Filmmaker-in-The-TROVE.jpg Interviews Clockwise: The documentarian; Li’l Buck in a still from Memphis Majic; the monitor on set; and Eddie with fellow filmmaker, Boots Riley (Sorry to Bother You) at the 2018 Indie Memphis Film Festival. Photos courtesy of The Savoy Media Group. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1550879977238-8QDL3D6OIBIGC3P0X6D3/EB_Memphis-to-Atlanta.jpg Interviews Born and bred, from Memphis to Atlanta. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1550864181976-SOIRP2GQQ7XC8BSOB063/LilBlack.png Interviews Jooker Li’l Black in a still from Memphis Majic. Photo courtesy of The Savoy Media Group. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1560013799339-995KLP5XMMPI8GNDGKX5/TheTROVE_KGR_Corso_bike.jpg Interviews Photo by Phil Roc. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1560012876052-KKS9P7OG7NDGPFUVDF23/TheTROVE_KGR_Levis-jacket_Inlay-coin-ring.jpg Interviews Photo left: courtesy of Karen Gibson Roc; photo right: The TROVE. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1560473840260-4TINLJQUQHQU2FM8A4YQ/KGR.jpg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1560057783870-XVZWC93KNE24HAQV7HRX/TheTROVE_KGR_The-beginning.png Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1560057729363-0XXEHPJZA7STKOOL8ZKM/TheTROVE_KGR_Roc-wedding.png Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1560424051667-AI5A9SYYQKTRYFXR2GIL/TheTROVE_KGR_K-P-PMc.jpg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1560058065568-0TETQWYQM6859DR2DGG0/TheTROVE_KGR_Rocs_Erzulie.jpg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1560457359714-OBE78Y0I7M48CGNKEU8U/TheTROVE_KGR_The-Gibsons.jpg Interviews Marcia and Lauriston Gibson; the Gibson Girls: little Laurieann, Karen (standing) and Debbie; and post wedding, the beautiful womenfolk of the Gibson clan: bride Debbie, Karen, mother of the bride Marcia, Laurieann and Jolie. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1560013748240-YHDV40CR2OBIPJ50KJ3J/KGR_JaBleedsPoetry.png Interviews Photo: @ja_b_l_e_e_d_s_poetry. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1560458880735-GA6SQ9EP85K6H9AHU96S/TheTROVE_KGR_TRACE_WHITNEY.jpg Interviews Her fabulous ‘fro: in TRACE magazine feature; and on the promotional material for Whitney Live. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1560390457162-VLZKP63AU5V7P6FWC5VJ/TheTROVE_KGR_Portrait-with-BooBoo.jpg Interviews Karen Gibson Roc photographed at home for THE TROVE as her dog Boo-Boo looks on. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1560427517989-FOUARHN7NFQH2JNLT1EO/TheTROVE_KGR_Karen-and-Phil.jpg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1560427524697-6SFXRDR6QU5DT7RLEJ5C/TheTROVE_KGR_With-Boo-Boo.jpg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1560018765015-ESQPD5512IWGOX981H56/TheTROVE_KGR_woodcarved-table.jpg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1560207304944-K0L9GTLWNL50ZOZT9PY2/Screen+Shot+2019-06-10+at+4.21.56+AM.png Interviews From she&i: poems by karen gibson roc.. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1560429642637-KMHLR0ZHZ7W1OYZTBT72/TheTROVE_KGR_Fluids-first-and_VH1-Soul-promo.jpg Interviews Karen and the band first perform as Fluid; Flowing in a promo spot for VH1 Soul. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1560440786543-53Z1TA3DPX4O4DK6LZ4J/TheTROVE_LGR_Commercial-actor.jpg Interviews Fitness and wellness, perfect commercial casting for the woman who embraces both. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1560458628297-ZMOSD5TL8X0JFWM566HY/TheTROVE_KGR_Ft.Greene_model-and-muse.jpg Interviews Model and muse: Karen’s comp card; the black and white photography of fashion designer, photographer, and Fort Greene resident, Edward Wilkerson; Olympiad-inspired. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1560288017692-BCHM3HRQXYQZJUQHFJ0C/TheTROVE_KGR_Karen-and-Afrazz.png Interviews KGR hitting it with the percussionists of Afrazz: Baba Don, Lady Shekere, her bro-in-love, Ronnie Roc and Mike Wimberly. Image from the video recording of the performance. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1560096650047-XWHEOKBJ1U6LB67XSRVD/TheTROVE_KGR_Jolie.jpg Interviews Jolie joyeuse; #getsitfromhermama; “walking in shoes that I choose”– artist Jolie’s handiwork; scholar Jolie and her medal. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1560089200526-0PNX5N8N3IEQQZHUATO0/TheTROVE_KGR_Living-in-LA.jpg Interviews Photo left: Culver City municipal signage, Creative Commons; center: Phil Roc; right: Karen Gibson Roc. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1560299837307-2TX8BLBMRV48D5CKQR4U/aec.cdb5637359848.2_0.jpg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1560299837957-66Q69MNA2TOI578DQEOK/MI0002168659.jpg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1560299838192-TF3MV1DMGW422UM4Q549/TheTROVE_KGR_Touchiung-the-Soul.png Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1560299837314-XC1QKW4W8PCXDQET5D74/71020btCgwL._SS500_.jpg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1560299837649-BTZ0LUZ2U2SX1387IML3/a3979506564_10.jpg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1560299837726-JAMFAQM8K49012TF85JA/artworks-000414518658-feag8y-t500x500.jpg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1560299838122-3FLH5UX11ZXYCPRPIOVA/810BUFHY1tL._SS500_.jpg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1560302884147-DCD6KBTU8X2D176TMAJ9/71k8ws9S5CL._SS500_.jpg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1560098831106-509E912OBY6ETBDQXEFY/TheTROVE_KGR_Athlete.jpg Interviews Photos courtesy of Karen Gibson Roc. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1560431744854-YN07VH6O32ZTQ3TCVOOQ/TheTROVE_KGR_pull-quote.png Interviews Photo: Baron Wolman https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1560370170660-T0MTCYR7FNBWIRXE1131/Screen+Shot+2019-06-12+at+3.13.35+PM.png Interviews Baby Karen: giving fierce gaze at six; 70’s fro; 80’s flip; young video star; giving killier abs in her 20’s; mama-to-be; confident artist/entrerpreneur. Photos courtesy of Karen Gibson Roc. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1560012063926-0D74H22MCKTWC6HHZZB0/TheTROVE_KGR_Home.jpg Interviews Photos courtesy of Karen Gibson Roc. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1560012672749-OQ9JZNMTPEVXD1TAM8DS/TheTROVE_KGR_Fedoras_Glasses_NBD-T.jpg Interviews Photo left: The TROVE; photo right: courtesy of Karen Gibson Roc/NEVAH BLACK DOWN. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1562706238937-50C22AINLO9XIDG96GRS/The-TROVE_T.Fuller_spirituality-books.jpg Interviews . https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1562367585308-7O17NE5MBWSTCJJIUN63/TheTROVE_TFuller_Massage-Press-ons.jpg Interviews Golden Mirror press-on nails from Lilium Nails. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1564019500549-LQZ9MLTQKTBTDU59AL21/TheTROVE_Tia-Fuller_Suga-Mama.jpg Interviews Beyoncés horn section was fire: “Got me looking, got me looking so crazy in love.” (See Tia at 5:05 here) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1562358643872-L99421YAVPW5C12HFFK0/TheTROVE_Tia-Fuller_Body-con-dresses-high-heels.jpg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1563932307355-RJXJDNLUKYIMDUUKE26X/image-asset.jpeg Interviews Grilled shrimp recipe from Steven Raichlen’s Barbecue Bible. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1562371009592-1QMK4JASC303CI1YKSCG/ARI+Shoot-2_0.jpg Interviews Tia with the members of the Berklee School of Music Ariana Grande Ensemble. Photo by Ariff Danial. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1563925759213-DXMCHTY7ZCRIEDF8VK5Y/TheTROVE_T.Fuller_Fuller-Sound.png Interviews Iterations of Fuller Sound: Fred and Elthopia Fuller; Fred Fuller, Shamie Fuller-Royston, Ashton Fuller, Tia Fuller, Elthopia Fuller, and Rudy Royston. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1562431056015-OM01W28HT5EWW6HV0OJI/The-TROVE_Tia-Fuller_J-Jill-campaign.jpg Interviews Tia was tapped for the Inspired Women video series from womenswear retailer, J. Jill. The “Rhythm in Blues” campaign featured notable women in music who embody the brand’s easy, relaxed, style. Tia’s image, rocking their Authentic Fit slim-leg jeans appeared on billboards, ads, across online platforms and in-store at more than 270 retail locations. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1562674880678-8R6U6PZ1EHMT2E0WJ2IO/The-TROVE_T.Fuller_spiritual-and-physical-strength.jpg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1563939517720-N6KF9ZNI4N9FB3HX2TVF/TheTROVE_TiaFuller_Quote.jpg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1563968013973-889QEOD7R5HDLX38INKQ/The_TROVE_T.Fuller-Accolades.jpg Interviews Among her many accolades, Tia has been honored with the Distinguished Alumnae Award as the commencement speaker at the University of Colorado at Boulder and the Benny Golson Award from Howard University in 2018. In 2019, she received the Juneteenth Music Festival #DreamBig Award. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1564070354981-5N35HXNKNWNIC7LAF6CW/TheTROVE_Tia-Fuller-and-friends.jpg Interviews Tia and… Top row: Beyoncé; the women of Suga Mama; Esperanza Spalding; Ingrid Jensen and Terri Lyne Carrington. 2nd row: Jack DeJohnette; Mark Whitfield, Jr., Shamie Royston and Endea Owens; Christian McBride; Geri Allen. 3rd row: Quincy Jones; Terri Lyne Carrington and Publicist, Gwendolyn Quinn; Lizz Wright; Branford Marsalis. 4th row: Clive Davis; Shamie Royston; Roy Hargrove; her bestie, Margo Davis. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1562716866847-XSC9GUDBHHLY0FY9Z4XA/The-TROVE_Tia-Fuller-through-the-years-1.jpg Interviews Newborn Tia; the six-year-old; the teen; the sax-playing high school senior; the young musician trying to blend in a male-dominated industry in a sportcoat, vest and trousers; a Beyoncé-encouraged short haircut; a glam flip; riding the waves. Photos courtesy of Tia Fuller. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1562705727925-C8DXYP96N5XBI2SMJEYH/The-TROVE_T.Fuller_Fam.png Interviews Twinning with "Momma”; kisses from “Daddy-D”; grinning with the sibs, Ashton and Shamie. Photos courtesy of Tia Fuller. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1562680774871-9HKRTUHYQLF8XGSD7QF9/The-TROVE_Tia-Fuller-GRAMMYS.jpg Interviews Dazzling on the red carpet, Tia’s GRAMMY night look landed her on the best-dressed lists of Vogue and Cosmopolitan magazines. Enjoying the festivities with her elegant squad: father, Fred, sister, Shamie, and sisterfriend, Margo. Red carpet photo: Zimbio/Getty Images. Other photos courtesy Tia Fuller. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1562374245306-MECOHAAS2O3YS5BDXBCL/TheTROVE_TFuller-Ginger-Soft-Serve.jpg Interviews Frozen yogurt, Miss Karen’s. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1563925494438-GNQNU1CSIRHGTBIPHM18/The_TROVE_T.Fuller_Eyeshadow.jpg Interviews Girly from the get-go. Always down to accentuate those big, bright eyes. Photos courtesy of Tia Fuller https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1563924227328-6BSK8MUVC66X8MW3IIO7/Montgomery+VF+Women+in+Jazz-08.jpg Interviews Tia Fuller dipped in Cushnie and Cartier for the article, “Sisters of Swing” in the August 2019 issue of Vanity Fair. Photographed by Philip Montgomery. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1562361058498-3GX97HS4ZFMI1M2KFJZJ/TiaFuller_TheTrove_Cover.jpg Interviews Tia Fuller photographed by Jerris Madison. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1562420163619-C8WYA37X9BXZB0JMVL69/TF.jpg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1562421245615-19GADUKMPWGJKSLNVVVO/TheTROVE_Tia-Fuller_press.jpg Interviews As a performer and professor of jazz, Tia was named the Best Alto Saxophonist of 2018 by JazzTimes and graced the magazine’s June 2010 cover. She garnered DownBeat Magazine’s International Critics Poll “Rising Star” nod two years in a row – 2013 and 2014 and made the cover this year. She was also the cover story or JazzEd magazine’s March 2019 issue. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1562438011079-VHHZFX5S8OR7DBBND3W2/The_TROVE_Tia-Fuller-guest-DJ-on-WKCR.jpg Interviews Tia pulls up her playlist for her guest DJ set on Columbia University radio station, WKCR. Photo, The TROVE. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1562338223937-IKEE2VT69N9GK3M2WU37/MI0001527391-e1471555145566.jpg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1562338233778-G4MFUG9IX6VVWUVXRJPG/cover_tf_200__art_img.jpg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1562338238125-QXEOFNBESGPB596OTWXS/1043_tia_cover_200x200rgb__art_img.jpg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1562338277987-UFQPC26XWZG0Z5Y4U1G8/mac_1068_200__art_img.jpg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1562338283407-MYXISEHGU3T4MM6HDLM8/tia_fuller_cover_sfw.jpg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1575917645542-PNLZ9I6R7R7OBNQVGJUX/V.Ekpuk_then-and-now.jpg Interviews Commissions: in the Department of Fine Art studio, University of Ife, creating a portrait of Anglican clergyman, Akinsanya in oil on canvas in 1988; and enlivening an elevator shaft in Hotel Hive, DCs first pod hotel in 2016. © Victor Ekpuk. Photos courtesy of Victor Ekpuk. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1575761442666-1VGLUS1JRXPAZIKCHMRM/V.Ekpuk-for-Rocketship-Rise-Academy.jpg Interviews For a commission at Rocketship Rise Academy, an elementary school in Southeast D.C., Victor Ekpuk derived the composition from an aerial map of the school neighborhood, highlighting historical landmarks, he says, “to bring elements of the community in, demarcating them with color so it became an abstract piece. Dead-end roads blossom into flowers or become hands that reach out to touch others.” © Victor Ekpuk. Photo courtesy of Victor Ekpuk. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1575750507755-FXL0XNJA8DPY8AFOTCJW/September6.jpg Interviews Victor Ekpuk’s powder coated steel sculpture, The Philosopher, 2018, is nestled in a niche of his mixed media installation, Shrine to Wisdom, 2019 from the group exhibition, Get Up, Stand Up Now curated by Zak Ové at Somerset House, London, June 12 - September 15, 2019. © Victor Ekpuk. Photo courtesy of Somerset House. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1565227054375-TFCX529BW1FEUE6JXNQT/TheTROVE_V.Ekpuk_Watch-collection.jpg Interviews © Victor Ekpuk. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1575750172018-ZFEOT4D5DLNHGRPMQ3ZT/Idaresit.jpg Interviews From Victor Ekpuk | Marks & Objects at Aicon Gallery May 30 – Jun 22, 2019. © Victor Ekpuk; photo © Idaresit Ekpuk https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1565226735690-Z841EDA4PPXTKCIYD7QT/TheTROVE_V.Ekpuk_African-art_Marrakech-scarf.jpg Interviews Photo, left © Victor Ekpuk; right, the artist in Sicily. Both photos courtesy of Victor Ekpuk. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1578283402430-9GC8F7CURX5JKNUPPEPV/TheTROVE-V.Ekpuk-The-Face.jpg Interviews Victor Ekpuk photographed in the Kingdom of Bahrain before his sculpture, The Face, a tribute to the Bahraini people commissioned by Bank ABC. Photo courtesy of Victor Ekpuk. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1578179404647-4FSZI7U228MS8SFWWMEU/V.Ekpuk-Santa-Fe_Slave-Narrative-II.jpg Interviews From the Composition Series, Santa Fe, 2013. Graphite and pastel on paper 50 in x 38 in. (Collection of Fidelity Investments, Albuquerque, NM). From the Slave Narrative Series, Detail of bodies, jumped or thrown overboard in Slave Narrative II, 2018. Pastel on paper 44in. x 50 in. (Collection of the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College) © Victor Ekpuk. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1577964931439-HO1NFFXM5HG9RSJ09YU3/V.Ekpuk-Y.Shonibare-African-art-award.jpg Interviews Yinka Shonibare, one of three recipients of NMAfA’s first African Art Awards with Victor Ekpuk, designer of the trophy, right, at the Awards Gala. Photos courtesy of Victor Ekpuk. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1578168846131-STR94PN0W9PC79C458WU/V.Ekpuk-Muse-Idaresit.jpg Interviews Long-time muse, son, Idaresit. © Victor Ekpuk https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1577893320417-FDMLWWNY1D0YI54E5UMS/VE_MboboSeries.jpg Interviews The first of the series, Asian Uboikpa (Hip Sista) #1 (2014) Acrylic on canvas 48 in x 60 in; the magazine photo that started it all; Asian Uboikpa (Hip Sista) #11 (2014) Acrylic on canvas 48 in x 60 in. Paintings, © Victor Ekpuk. Photos courtesy of Victor Ekpuk. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1565228751457-TDH4OSGA5WOOJCU71Q3O/TheTROVE_V.Ekpuk_Achebe.jpg Interviews Book cover art, © Victor Ekpuk. Photo courtesy of Victor Ekpuk. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1565238306527-C91VG71V90Q8DXC7T7EL/Victor-Ekpuk-Things-Fall-Apart.jpg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1565238305901-IXNZ3XBHZQA9V6L8UX9Q/Victor-Ekpuk-NoLongerAtEase.jpg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1565238419544-4Y9SHHZOT0ELBF53QLTH/Victor-Ekpuk-ArrowofGod.jpg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1565238309429-DHB9BMJYKZLJVJIYFVFM/Victor-Ekpuk-the-African-Trilogy.jpg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1575508836582-VDIY8AAAHU2MEGXX6CPO/0-1.jpg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1565470946234-E36MUN5JOR48D0Y6NBRF/image.jpg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1565470967166-S4RUJUSOEGUCZ5BSA6UU/9780307816450.jpg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1565238312231-5AZWSWYUL13PWDYRC12U/Victor-Ekpuk_Man-of-the-People-copy.jpg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1565238310456-UDA4K96KDHGOPIZE0KH1/9780307473868.jpg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1565238311101-65CCYN1PHTO4KOXH4Q1U/9780385418966.jpg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1565238312081-LZN7HKCRTV6U8SG47BOH/9781400076581.jpg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1575508843780-6OC8DVA880HT5U431ZWP/0.jpg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1578203708855-A7XAG3NIS3SCTBTM2ZH2/DdWImoFX0AAvUJy.jpg Interviews © Victor Ekpuk https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1565228337289-TY5AMQG7YJG54596B8V7/TheTROVE_V.Ekpuk_MAA_Award-designs.jpg Interviews Sketches of proposed designs for the the Smithsonian Museum of African Art’s African Art Award trophy. © Victor Ekpuk. Photos courtesy of Victor Ekpuk. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1565227518179-1L5082T5S4D0K5QTN8LG/Victor.jpg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1565236465706-RS8QHVICESKQ7YDCT36L/TheTROVE_V.Ekpuk_Apple-pencil.jpg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1578329167184-3DPEZP1AW9DS5B11K07R/V-Ekpuk-Looking-Ahead.jpg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1575696688188-50550BULOIUAM79AETMA/Artisphere_October-9-Meditations-on-memory.jpg Interviews Meditations on Memory performance at Artisphere in Arlington, Virginia, 2012. Pastel. © Victor Ekpuk. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1577968889513-PLT4C0JBGLGROEFRWG92/M.andV.Ekpuk.jpg Interviews Still smiling: Marion and Victor Ekpuk. Photos courtesy of Victor Ekpuk. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1578280050467-BRKB2MOBEUXUZETTHVSL/V.Ekpuk-Parents.jpg Interviews Sampson Ekpuk’s sartorial style, circa 1960 with a precision widow’s peak, a dapper side part and sporting suede brogues and a suit of his design. When friends headed off to college in places like Oxford and Princeton, it was Sampson Ekpuk’s tailoring expertise that provided their first-ever suits. His eldest son remembers: ”He would be quite dapper with the hat and matching everything.” The beautiful Iquo Ekpuk created her elegant buba of Swiss lace circa 1970, donning it with dazzling pumps. “I think I got my artist gene from her,” says her firstborn. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1578283744067-BTVX4Y8T50NNUBNUNZSS/V.Ekpuk-Hope-and-Dream-Under-Glory_The-Face.jpg Interviews Hope and and Dream Under Glory, 2019, 20 ft. by 10 ft., painted steel. the largest outdoor sculpture in Southeast D.C. Dedicated to the Bahraini people, The Face, 2019, 17ft. by 14ft., painted steel. Sculptures © Victor Ekpuk. Photos courtesy of Victor Expuk. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1578153268435-QRVYRYU8K0Y87TO6II62/Victor-Ekpuk-illustration-for-Daily-Times-Nigeria.jpg Interviews From Victor Ekpuk: Connecting Lines Through Space and Time: an illustration for Nigeria’s Daily Times newspaper, 1994. © Victor Ekpuk https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1578235141755-VR8NK6T18NQZ2JU32QIA/Ekpuk-at-The-Africa-Center-and-By-the_People.jpg Interviews Victor Ekpuk and fellow artist Ghada Amer beneath Harlem Sunrise at Teranga, a cafe within The Africa Center. Idaresit Ekpuk beams as his father’s Eye See You looms behind him at the Smithsonian Arts + Industries building. © Victor Ekpuk. Photos courtesy of Victor Ekpuk. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1577992101256-WTA1XYEOGU90CP0IYE2I/V.Ekpuk-Union-of-Saint-and-Venus.jpg Interviews Union of Saint and Venus, 2012. Acrylic and rhinestone collage on wood panel 41 in. by 71 in (Collection of the National Museum of African American History and Culture, Washington, DC).; detail from same. © Victor Ekpuk https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1565209034421-SAXWTDBXZNCDFOA51X1P/unnamed-11.jpg Interviews © Victor Ekpuk. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1578230514909-WT17X1COLBGL2JC90SP4/TheTROVE_V.Ekpuk_Manuscript-boards.jpg Interviews He purchased the piece on the left at a fundraiser to benefit the collector (now in a care facility) with whom he exchanged work years before. “It’s nice to have it back in my collection. It’s a beautiful object [the original walaha ] to begin with, but I wrapped copper around it and it is covered in goatskin.” Right, Untitled, 2004 Acrylic on wood 15 3/4 x 7 1/4 x 1/2 in. (Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art., Washington, DC) © Victor Ekpuk https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1566231852221-YV5VQYK51OSACQ3OP45L/Bobby+Hill.jpg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1574222988118-938S6LEED75400ZMS8D4/unnamed-1.jpg Interviews Before the show begins. Bobby Hill/Transparent Productions presented the superb David Murray and Kahil El’Zabar in a magical performance at Rhizome on June 16, 2019. There was even a bit of avian call and response. Photographed by Yusef Jones. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1574437620727-DT716MXST2R6SQ63SB8J/B.Hill-T.Stanley.jpg Interviews Bobby Hil and Dr. Thomas Stanley,, colleagues, collaborators, friends, fam. “That’s my friend, he’s blood without being blood. We had a ball together.” Photo courtesy of Bobby Hill. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1574544425392-SULMT9C7WO3RKOF9Y5RL/Big-thanks-Bobby-Recovered.jpg Interviews The master’s hands: A massive promotional poster for a Butch Morris engagement in Italy signed by the man himself hangs in the Hill home. And Homeing, recorded live in West Berlin in 1987 and released with fantastic McArthur Binion cover art, is a favorite. “I fell in love with it. It’s just one extended piece, it’s got great movement; that’s Butch.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1574534648075-49PUC4BYAH9M69ICM9XO/TheTROVE-Bobby-Hill-thru-the-years.jpg Interviews From balling at twelve to sailing at sixty. Photos courtesy of Bobby Hill. Far right photo, Sabiyha Prince. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1574534081331-KQFIX7TJO9XWLZ407VPZ/TheTROVE-B.Hill-13-St.Marys.jpg Interviews Lucky 13. “Foot” Hill rules the court. Photos by Wim Cassard courtesy of Bobby Hill. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1566315065672-YZFSPBSHLRGNOW9BXAIK/Bobby-Hill-by+Yusef-Jones-for-The-Trove.png Interviews Bobby Hill aka sdikiSerigne photographed by Yusef Jones at WOWD Takoma Radio for THE TROVE. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1574542242146-85Q1A7K5LF4XK4I206AN/B.Hill-by-Yusef-Jones-pull-quote-THE-TROVE.jpg Interviews Photo: Yusef Jones https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1574382544297-3UIH1ZST69OOL3HM0DRI/TheTROVE-B.Hill-fam-photos.jpg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1574349109946-MET0AA55A77I9DT0XX0V/B.Hill_Blues-People_Jamaican-cane.jpg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1574297039251-X8CAKP5AZJ9D1FIXRPQZ/BHillSr.jpg Interviews He gives much respect to the man who made him and the man who raised him. Left, Bobby Hill, Sr. at Lorton; and right, David and Doris Barge at a pivotal moment in his college ball career. Photos courtesy of Bobby Hill. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1574438060561-K6K259TUMV4PZU0IPDV8/The-TROVE-B.Hill-WOWD-by-Yusef-Jones.jpg Interviews Bobby Hill aka sdikiSerigne photographed by Yusef Jones at WOWD Takoma Radio for THE TROVE. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1574543292500-51X6RH56ACH2HH2D9TZX/B.Hill-siblings.jpg Interviews Brother and sister, Bobby and Beverly Hill; Bobby Hill and baby brother, Bryan Barge; Sister Tonya Hill and their Dad, Bobby Hill, Sr. Photos courtesy of Bobby Hill. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1574224012801-50YTPTYHL4BWHRQ5TH04/Bobby+%26+Bill+Cole_.jpg Interviews Sundays at Seven: Bobby Hill/Transparent Productions presents Bill Cole and his Untempered Ensemble at Bohemian Caverns. 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Photos courtesy of Bobby Hill. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1568378212302-Y0DN0GQP5MKRRQNGP88A/Sound+Scientist+at+play+Trove.jpg Interviews Bobby Hill aka sdikiSerigne photographed by Yusef Jones at WOWD Takoma Radio for THE TROVE. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1574469838498-709ID33WHTZS9A6MDUYH/Y_Li.jpg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1574124238594-LYGPEAKG8VAXHGDQZ04R/B-Hill-1000-point-club.jpg Interviews “Foot” Hill and St. Mary’s College President Jackson inducts Bobby “Foot” Hill. Photo by Wim Cassard. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1574535501420-D1UQQU9X13VQTNTN24JH/B.Hill-Dialogue-of-Transformation.jpg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1574453060900-V7XMCYK5MNM48KLQX7JU/B.Hill_Foot-Dare-to-be-Different.jpg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1571540756811-SH4NRAUYU44F973U3QZK/JME_ThruTime.jpg Interviews Photos courtesy of Jamea Richmond-Edwards. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1571885279360-D4B37APE9163EQA6U5DH/JRE_Edwards.jpg Interviews Beautiful family: Geoff, Jamea, Jeremiah, Yikahlo, and baby ZendeRa. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1572395478767-XJ0EGGWD3TN6I83ZUW5A/Jamea.jpg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1571881265249-N5UD01H7OI0UR31M8RW3/JRE_Prom-Night.jpg Interviews Prom Night opening: left) Jamea Richmond-Edwards with curator, Niama Safia Sandy; center, the “Kween”, and her “Kang,” Geoff Edwards; their eldest, Jeremiah stands before his favorite of his mother’s works, Fly Whips and Fly Girls; Marilyn Griffin, aka DJ Mal rocks the decks for her bestie since age ten. (Check the playlist on Soundcloud.) The Prettiest Dress hangs in the distance. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1571883635041-CTN8CSOGY91O90ZA29HM/JRE_Former-Students.jpg Interviews Four former students came out in support of their beloved teacher’s opening. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1571613263426-0ZO7WUR3Z65VAMNUO51W/JRE_The-Office.jpg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1571540841759-KWYEZZSYTAGNUVZZHX5H/JRE_TheRichmonds.jpg Interviews Pamela Richmond, in her “immaculate ‘fro” with her son Farrad and baby Jamea. In a family studio portrait, the Richmond siblings’ mix of patterns envisages the pattern play that will dominate the artist’s work. 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Photos courtesy of Jamea Richmond-Edwards. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1572407426736-OK3C3Q9AZSGD5KEIJ738/JRE_Jamea-Richmond-Edwards-at-Prom-Night.jpg Interviews Jamea Richmond Edwards photographed at the opening of Prom Night on October 17, 2019 at Kravets/Wehby Gallery, NYC. Detail of Slow Dance with Big Chief, 2019 Ink, acrylic, mixed media, colored pencil, fabric, glitter and rhinestone on canvas. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1572393308693-QN3PXTY2UIALX3FZX61J/JRE_Richmond-Edwards-Book-covers.jpg Interviews Her works grace the covers of works by Aimee Meredith Cox, 2015; Juda Bennett, 2014 (The painting, Wings Not Meant to Fly also appears in Lucious Lyon’s living room on T.V.s Empire); Mariama J. Lockington, 2019; and Julia S. Jordan-Zachery and Duchess Harris, 2019. (The painting, Archetype of a 5 Star, 2018 is one of four acquired by the Rubell Family Collection.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1572373567553-9ZJ1H30PUHSAREOTPXEK/JRE_The_TROVE-PQ-Ancestral-Matrix.jpg Interviews Ancestral Matrix and Black Alligator Boots, 2018 acrylic, spray paint, glitter, ink and cut paper collage on canvas diptych, overall 96 x 60 in. Rubell Family Collection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a82fe4b086a764f15100/1572416659058-53XBIOCOG2YGYL94ATUK/JRE_Traveling_Billboard-29-rooms-1.jpg Interviews Visitors to 29Rooms at the D.C. Armory encounter an enlarged image of her work Tulips and Orange Clouds and are encouraged to use the mural as inspiration for artfully placing the bits of kaleidoscopic paper and embellishments supplied on the doll forms. 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