Episode 11: SOULEO: Showing Out in Harlem, Newark and Beyond

Peter “Souleo” Wright curates entertaining and informative events, exhibitions, and cultural programs. His focus on education and amplifying underrepresented stories are paramount to his curatorial mission and practice.

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Episode 08: Navindren Hodges, Second Generation Black Gallerist With Newark Origins, Takes The Global Lead

Navindren Hodges, Bill Hodges Gallery Director , boasts the gallery’s collection ranges from 19th-century Black artists Henry Ossawa Tanner to modernist, abstraction icon Norman Lewis to contemporaries Willie Cole and Carrie Mae Weems. Image: Demetrius Oliver, Totem, 2004

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Episode 07: Artist and Curator Anonda Bell: Raising Civilization’s Radical Voice In Newark

Anonda Bell is an Australian born, USA based, artist and curator. As the Director and Chief Curator of the Paul Robeson Galleries in Newark, NJ, she continues to make sure the “Radical Voices” in art are seen. Image: Anonda Bell, “Neither Shall You Touch It”, 2013-2014.

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Episode 06: Artist Victor Davson; Decolonizing Art Spaces in Newark, NJ

Artist Victor Davson’s professional and charismatic leadership has, and continues to have after 35 years, a profound impact on the artistic landscape of Newark and the Tri-State region.

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Episode 04: Artist & Author, Nell Painter: Disturbing The Peace From Newark

Join me in a lively conversation with Nell Painter to discover how this brilliant Newark transplant uses her artistic talents to “disturb the peace”. Image: Nell Painter, 3g. Motherwell in the Adirondacks 17, 2016

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Podcast Episode 03: Filmmaker Ernest Dickerson: Black To The Future

Filmmaker Ernest Dickerson, directing Raised By Wolves in Cape Town, South Africa, shares how growing up in Newark, NJ continues to inform his filmmaking career. Image: Abubakar Salim in ‘Raised by Wolves’,

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Podcast Episode 02: The Art Collector’s Daughter Interviews Her Dad

Art advisor and art collector, Roger C. Tucker III, shares with his daughter, Ara, how growing up in Newark informed his evolving art practice. Artwork: George Sheffield, Facing Abstraction.

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