Monday February 6th, 2023
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM EST (Zoom)
Bringing together 3 African American Artists: Aleathia Brown, Larry Rushing & Khalid "Kha-Tees" Sabree who creator/moderator, Mitch Pilnick (ATOA board member) have come to know and appreciate both their artwork and their "positivity" toward others. They will each speak of their artwork and their life experiences that have shaped the artist they are today.
Aleathia Brown
For artist, Aleathia Brown, creativity is more than a way to share personal expression, it is a path of spirituality, a connection to God, a litmus test by which she gages her growth as a soul. Her vision is a poetic stream of realization that has been conceived by a lifetime of creative meditation, patience and internal strength. Her art is expressed visually, verbally, in a variety of mediums, in performance and didactically Aleathia uses music, color and patterns as cues to calm patrons, encouraging them to find shapes and forms while provoking conversations that tap in on the inner spirit. Inspired by movement, poetry and storytelling, Aleathia's Artworks evoke a visual journey using burlap, canvas, torn paper and mixed mediums that produce bold and brilliant outcomes, thereby fostering new, and sometimes, surprising experiences. Aleathia is a Community Artist, for her connecting and the power of relationships is an allegory fueling creativity beyond the canvas. 2021 Aleathia was the recipient of a City Artist Grant using Visual Art, Poetic Storytelling accompanied by Original Music in a Collaboration. Ms. Brown unveiled her mixed medium collage painting "Saanvi" at the close of her performance at the Kente Royal Gallery Harlem NY. 2022 "Saanvi" sold to the Founder of Girls Nite Live an online program where Aleathia has been teaching Virtual Art Interactive Workshops for professional women to stressmelt during the pandemic. June 2021 Jazzmobile hired Aleathia as the Visual Artist in Residence where she conducted a series of In Person and Virtual Art workshops inspired by the music of Miles Davis she named the workshop series "Kinda Blue". Aleathia has participated in the Fundraising Exhibitions held at the Montclair Museum of Art by Empower the Village a nonprofit Organization implementing breakthrough strategies that empower Black People. Aleathia's Artworks have sold each year, "Remember when" a limited edition reproduction appeared prominently with Her New Collector during Saundra Bookman' television show "Here and Now" which features stories impacting the local Black Community. Aleathia has an unending flow of creativity, Summer 2021 her "LIVE ART" is where she translates the live music often accompanied by poetry into color and texture painted on torn paper, the experience happened as part of a public art project by founded by Pierre Voltaire at Maggies Garden Harlem NY. 2022 Aleathia exhibited "My Hair is not my Femininity" a painted found object assemblage at the Bethany Art Center Ossining NY. 2022 YoArts Gallery in Yonkers NY Aleathia is currently participating in a group exhibition overlapping the annual open studio tours through August 2022.
Larry Rushing
Larry Rushing is a New York City-based artist working in oil- and water-based media. His roots are both rural and urban. Born on a farm in rural Georgia, he was delivered by his great-grandmother, the local midwife and matriarch. He spent his adolescence in the inner city of Miami, Florida and ultimately received a B.F.A. from the University of Miami and an M.F.A. from Tyler School of Art, Temple University before moving to New York City. Rushing's work was recently exhibit at the Dayton Art Institute in the AAVAG Black Heritage Through Visual Rhythms exhibition. He has had two solo shows in New York City in the spring of 2022: The Feminine Divine in Tanged Transparency at El Barrio’s Artspace PS109 and Improvised Rhythms of an Urban Setting at Rio II Gallery. Rushing has shown widely in New York City as part of the Federation of Modern Painters and Sculptors and in several galleries, and virtually through the Artsy group Spliced Connectors. Rushing’s paintings are owned by collectors throughout the United States.
