Book Reading Post "What I know about Art"

 So, if I remember correctly, you said to watch the video in place of the book (my book is coming on Saturday) so I am going to do the quote thing with the video. So I will be doing that, unless I get told that I can wait until the 24th to do this so- yippe :]

"I like to think a lot more about environments than objects." 

This is an opening quote of the video, but it's one that stood out to me because that is an interesting way to view art. Less about the art piece itself and more about the environment it's in. Which I really like. After she says this, she continues to talk about the galleries she visits, how she usually only picks the most diverse. Adding more value to the place the art is shown rather than the art itself. I love it. 


This quote is broken up a bit, and it's long and technically 2, so I will count it as two if the council will allow. Council?

Hmmm roll for persuasion. 

rolls ... a 17 

You may continue, but you're on thin ice.

Thank you, council. 

Anyway

"But I wasn't seeing the artist that got me into it in the first place... when I didn't find it, I started a blog called Black Contemporary Art." 

These two quotes are very volumous(I dunno how to spell this word) quotes that weigh on each other. she had said either before or in the middle of these quotes that she was very excited to be going down this path, but the limited number of black artists that made her want to do this was really, really small. Like she saw none of them. So, taking it upon herself, she educated where her peers nor mentors did. Help raise awareness for other black girls or people who don't see themselves in the mediums they wanted to enter like her. Thus, she became their mentor, their educator, their black history art teacher. 

I don't... know where to find, art piece for this. So I will pull a Kimberly and find a black artist to tell y'all about in a small brief description. 

This is Artwork by the black artist Bisa Butler

She is an artist from Brooklyn New-York that creates quilts that are these large historical portraits of forgotten black lives. She is not a painter, but she still creates these gorgeous quilts that almost feel like they were meant to be paintings. Rather cozy and educating ones. She's been a seamstress since her mother and grandmother had taught her at a young age. Her first works were of her family, and now she makes a multitude of beautiful quilts of black people of all walks of life. She has an active Instagram account if you would like to see her works more and learn. I'll drop it here <3. 

Bisa Butler (@bisabutler) • Instagram photos and videos