As part of Arts Diverse-City Black History Month celebrations, we’re holding a collage workshop at the Heroines Quarter in the Eastgate.
As part of Arts Diverse-City Black History Month celebrations, we’re hosting a screening of the highly acclaimed film Queen and Slim, directed by award-winning Melina Matsoukas, at the Heroines Quarter in the Eastgate.
Nydia Blas is a visual artist, originally from New York, who now resides in Georgia. Using a variety of media including photography, collage, video, and books to explore her life as a girl, woman, and mother, her photographs create a physical and allegorical space presented through a Black feminine lens.
Lebohang Kganye was born in 1990 in Johannesburg, where she currently lives and works. She obtained a Diploma in Fine Arts from the University of Johannesburg in 2014 and is currently studying for a Masters in Fine Arts at the Witwatersrand University.
Ghana’s first professional women photographer, Felicia Abban (b. 1935) spent her sixty year career documenting Ghanain society and history. Noted for her studio portraits, she opened ‘Mrs. Felicia Abban’s Day and Night Quality Art Studio’ in Jamestown, Accra, hiring other women as apprentices and passing on her skills.
Suné Woods is an acclaimed visual artist living in Los Angeles. Her work typically involves multi-channel video installations, photographs, and collage.
Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe (b. 1951, USA) is an American photographer, photojournalist and AIDS activist.
Tshepiso Mazibuko is a South African photographer who, through the medium of photography, documents everyday life in the township of Thokoza where she lives and works
Roshini Kempadoo is a photographer, media artist and scholar whose practice combines factual and fictional re-imaginings of historical and contemporary experiences.
Working at the forefront of genderqueer visual politics for more than three decades, Lola Flash (b. 1959, New Jersey) has spent her career challenging the stereotypes surrounding gender, race, and sexuality.
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