"I AM because We Are was a hue and cry seen in several works by AfriCobra artists. This message conveys to me a role and purpose for my creativity. The African aesthetic is grounded in purpose; the African term for art is not separated from function. Within the Black Arts Movement the image-makers functioned for cultural nationalism. Our art should help us define ourselves, identify our customs and values and direct us to higher consciousness."

 

“Taller Than Most: Tribute to Dr. Jeff Donaldson” Chicago Artists Month “Art Connects” Opening weekend event at South Shore Cultural Center w Diaspora Rhythms, 2004. Interviewer for “Conversations with Composers/Chicago Now” Artist -Nicole Mitchell/Black Earth Ensemble w Hot House, Center for International Performance & Exhibition, Chicago 2004. “Role of the Arts in Neighborhood Revitalization” Conference Planning Chair, Center for Inner City Studies, Chicago 2002. “Where Our Voice Belongs”, Call & Response Teach-In, Producer & Spoken-word performer, Center for Inner City Studies 2002.

	Black Arts Week, Producer: Visual Arts Evening w/Sapphire & Crystals Artists, gallery talk at ARC Gallery, African-American Arts Alliance 2001. Black Art Week, Co-producer: Literature Night, “From the Darkness Cometh the Light”, staged readings of selected Black Literature, Duncan YMCA Chernin Center for the Arts, Chicago 2001.
Juneteenth Celebration, Co-producer: Film Festival, African American Arts Alliance; Summer Transition Program Mural Project, Center for Inner City Studies, Chicago 2001.

 

Up from 47th Street, mural project, Sutherland Community Arts Initiative 1996. Put Your Message Here, billboard project, Randolph Street Gallery 1990. Prepare Thyself for a Miracle, multi‑arts presentation National Conference of Artists, Bahia Brazil 1988. Cover Art, Zora Neal Hurston: The Breath of Her Voice, author, Ayana I. Karanja, Ph.D., African-American Literary Investigations, Peter Lang Publishing, Inc, New York, 1999.

Cover Art, The Literary Xpress Vol.2 #5, Spring, Literary Exchange, Chicago 1994. Cover Art, NOMMO 3, OBAC Press, Chicago 1992. DRUM, Black Literary Experience, University of Massachusetts. Album cover “Earth’s Blossom”, The John Betsch Society, Strata-East Records, NYC.

21st Century Stele: A Modern Interpretation of an Ancient Form, Carruthers Center for Inner City Studies, Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, IL. 2006 Taller than Most: A Tribute to the Life of Jeff Donaldson and his Legacy; w Diaspora Rhythms, South Shore Cultural Center, Chicago, IL 2005 Juneteenth Celebration, CO- producer: Film Festival, African American Arts Alliance, Center for Inner City Studies, Chicago, IL. 2001

Summer Transition Program Mural Project, Center for Inner City Studies, Chicago, IL. 2001

Curator "Diaspora Ache", Vergie Buxton Gallery, Carson Pirie Scott, Chicago, IL. 1994 JAZ Fest, CO-producer, Sutherland Community Arts Initiative, Sutherland Ballroom, Chicago, IL., October 1994, 93 & 92 Scene at the Sutherland , Multi-Arts Venues, CO-producer, Sutherland Community Arts Initiative, Sutherland Ballroom, Chicago, IL. Spring 1994& 93 Curator, Sutherland Art Exhibit 1993, 92 & 91

Co-Curator, AThe Way My Mama Did Sapphire & Crystals, 1994 CO-Curator, AImages an exhibition of African-American Women Artists, 1993 CO-Curator, Divining Sapphire & Crystals w MUDPEOPLES Studio, 1993 25th Anniversary Conference, National Conference of Artists(NCA), Conference Planning Chair & Mural Project Coordinator, Chicago, IL. 1983 Curator, AIntroducing, 5 Fresh Artists , LaMont Zeno Gallery, Chicago, IL. 1980 Curator, Afri-COBRA Reunion Exhibit, LaMont Zeno Gallery, Chicago, IL. 1979 CO-Curator, Faculty Acquisition Show, DuBois Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA. 1972 CO-Curator, Artists Collective Exhibit, Wadsworth Athenaeum, Hartford, CN. 1972

  PUBLICATIONS

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Graphic Illustration-Black Books Bulletin, Vol.6#3 Third World Press, Chicago, IL. 1981 Cover Art, Indiana Black Expo Booklet, (Juried) Indiana Black Expo Committee, Indianapolis, IN. 1978 DRUM Magazine: Black Literary & Arts, Spring Edition, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA. 1976 Album Cover "Earth Blossom" by the John Betsch Society/STRATA-EAST Records, New York, NY. 1975 Cover Art, New World Periodical, Amherst College, Amherst, MA. 1973

Cover Art, Zora Neal Hurston: The Breath of Her Voice, by Ayana I. Karanja Ph.D., African-American Literary Investigations, Peter Lang Publishing, Inc, New York, 1999 Cover Art, The Literary Xpress Vol.2 #5, Spring, Literary Exchange, Chicago, IL. 1994 Cover Art, NOMMO 3, OBAC Press, Chicago, IL. 1992 Cover Art Black Books Bulletin Vol.7#2, Third World Press, Chicago, IL. 1980

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