Limited edition prints for sale to raise money for BlackStar Projects, in celebration of our 10th anniversary.
Participating Artists:
Garrett Bradley
Damon Davis
Kevin Jerome Everson
Haile Gerima
Arthur Jafa
Kahlil Joseph
Louis Massiah
Terence Nance
Michelle Angela Ortiz
Fahamu Pecou
Andrea Pippins
Cauleen Smith
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![Aquarian 1998 by Louis Massiah, a self-portrait drawn on February 3, 1998 at 10:56 pm. In the bottom left corner it reads "Kitchen 1507 - David is here."]()
11 x 8.5 in.
EDITION OF 30
PIGMENT PRINT
$300
The Aquarian series is part of an annual ritual of Massiah, creating
a self-portrait yearly, that has carried out over the past 51 years.
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Louis Massiah
Aquarian 1998
2020, from the Aquarian Series11 x 8.5 in.
EDITION OF 30
PIGMENT PRINT
$300
The Aquarian series is part of an annual ritual of Massiah, creating
a self-portrait yearly, that has carried out over the past 51 years.
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Artist Bio
Louis Massiah (BSFF20) is a documentary filmmaker and the founder of the Scribe Video Center in Philadelphia, a media arts center that provides production workshops to community groups and emerging independent media makers. As an educator and institution builder, Massiah has developed media production methodologies that assist first time makers author their own stories, including the Precious Places Community History project, a collection of 107 collaboratively produced documentaries; the Muslim Voices of Philadelphia community history project, the Great Migration - A City Transformed and a current project The Tenants of Lenapehocking in the Age of Magnets.
As a director, Massiah’s award-winning documentaries include The Bombing of Osage Avenue, W.E.B. Du Bois – A Biography in Four Voices, Cecil B. Moore, two films for the Eyes on the Prize II series, and A is for Anarchist, B is for Brown, broadcast on television and screened at festivals in the US, Europe and Africa. His commissions include the President’s House site, a five channel permanent video installation for the U.S. National Park Service and a video installation for the Musée des Civilisations Noires in Dakar.
Louis Massiah (BSFF20) is a documentary filmmaker and the founder of the Scribe Video Center in Philadelphia, a media arts center that provides production workshops to community groups and emerging independent media makers. As an educator and institution builder, Massiah has developed media production methodologies that assist first time makers author their own stories, including the Precious Places Community History project, a collection of 107 collaboratively produced documentaries; the Muslim Voices of Philadelphia community history project, the Great Migration - A City Transformed and a current project The Tenants of Lenapehocking in the Age of Magnets.
As a director, Massiah’s award-winning documentaries include The Bombing of Osage Avenue, W.E.B. Du Bois – A Biography in Four Voices, Cecil B. Moore, two films for the Eyes on the Prize II series, and A is for Anarchist, B is for Brown, broadcast on television and screened at festivals in the US, Europe and Africa. His commissions include the President’s House site, a five channel permanent video installation for the U.S. National Park Service and a video installation for the Musée des Civilisations Noires in Dakar.
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11 x 8.5 in.
EDITION OF 30
PIGMENT PRINT
$300
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Garrett Bradley
Untitled (Flower 3)
202011 x 8.5 in.
EDITION OF 30
PIGMENT PRINT
$300
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Artist Bio
Garrett Bradley (BSFF19, BSFF20) was born and raised in New York City. She works across narrative, documentary, and experimental modes of filmmaking to address themes such as race, class, familial relationships, social justice, Southern culture, and the history of film in the United States.
In January of 2020, Bradley became the first Black woman to win the Best Director Award in the US Documentary Competition at Sundance, for her feature length documentary TIME. Bradley's first solo museum exhibition, “American Rhapsody”, was curated by Rebecca Matalon at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston. She has participated in two group shows, the 2019 Whitney Biennial, curated by Jane Panetta and Rujeko Hockley, and "Bodies of Knowledge" at the New Orleans Museum of Art, curated by Katie Pfohl. Her first New York solo exhibition, “Projects: Garrett Bradley” curated by Thelma Golden, the Director and Chief Curator of the Studio Museum in Harlem, is on view through March 15, 2021 at The Museum of Modern Art, MoMA in New York City. “Projects” is presented as a part of a multiyear partnership between The Museum of Modern Art and the Studio Museum in Harlem and features a multichannel video installation of her film AMERICA (2019).
Garrett Bradley (BSFF19, BSFF20) was born and raised in New York City. She works across narrative, documentary, and experimental modes of filmmaking to address themes such as race, class, familial relationships, social justice, Southern culture, and the history of film in the United States.
In January of 2020, Bradley became the first Black woman to win the Best Director Award in the US Documentary Competition at Sundance, for her feature length documentary TIME. Bradley's first solo museum exhibition, “American Rhapsody”, was curated by Rebecca Matalon at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston. She has participated in two group shows, the 2019 Whitney Biennial, curated by Jane Panetta and Rujeko Hockley, and "Bodies of Knowledge" at the New Orleans Museum of Art, curated by Katie Pfohl. Her first New York solo exhibition, “Projects: Garrett Bradley” curated by Thelma Golden, the Director and Chief Curator of the Studio Museum in Harlem, is on view through March 15, 2021 at The Museum of Modern Art, MoMA in New York City. “Projects” is presented as a part of a multiyear partnership between The Museum of Modern Art and the Studio Museum in Harlem and features a multichannel video installation of her film AMERICA (2019).