CALABAR GALLERY ANNOUNCES 2025 ART RESIDENT JAYMES JORSLING
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Atim Annette Oton of Calabar Gallery announced that Jaymes Jorsling is the fourth ART RESIDENT at Calabar Gallery Art Residency at coLAB Arts, New Brunswick, NJ. The residency continues for six months.
Jorsling is a multidisciplinary artist using painting, writing, and the stage to explore universal paradigms often highlighting nuances specific to the Black experience. He’s also a film and stage actor, performing regionally in and around NYC.
Based in Brooklyn, Jaymes is a Magna Cum Laude graduate of The City University Of New York and has received fellowships, grants, and commissions, from Duke University, Brown University, Ucross Foundation, Pratt Institute, Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, Brooklyn Museum, and BRIC Studios, among others.
This Social Justice Residency is for emerging and mid-career Black Artists globally who are working using unconventional ideas, materials, subject matter and doing some research-based work on a particular topic and pedagogy on Black lives globally & socially engaging New Brunswick.
Art Advisors: Jeanne Brasile, artist and former director, Walsh Gallery, Seton Hall Gallery;
Midori Yoshimoto, professor of Art History and gallery director, New Jersey City University;
Halima Taha, curator, art & culture strategist, author of Collecting African American Art Works, NY; Elizabeth Keithline, artist, Woodstock, NY; Patricia Andrews-Keenan, CEO, Pigment International; and Eto Otitigbe, artist & MFA Deputy chair, Brooklyn College’s Sculpture Dept.
Calabar Gallery represents underserved artists locally and globally: African, African American and Caribbean artists, with the mission of providing a place for community, exhibition, creative initiatives and projects.
coLAB Arts engages artists, social advocates, and communities to create transformative new work. coLAB Arts facilitates creative conversation through innovative programs and artist infrastructure, connects artists with community partners and mentors, and executes productions that challenge perceptions and inspire action.
CONGRESSIONAL ART COMPETITION — OPEN TO HIGH SCHOOLERS ACROSS THE COUNTRY DEADLINE MARCH 26
Each spring, the Congressional Institute sponsors a nationwide high school visual art competition to recognize and encourage artistic talent in the nation and in each congressional district. Since the Artistic Discovery competition began in 1982, more than 650,000 high school students have participated.
Students submit entries to their representative’s office, and panels of district artists select the winning entries. Winners are recognized both in their district and at an annual awards ceremony in Washington, DC. The winning works are displayed for one year at the U.S. Capitol.
The high point of the competition is the annual Winners’ Celebration, when 1,000 constituents come to Washington to see the exhibit and honor the winners. The competition changes lives and introduces the Legislative Branch to young people across the country.
You may apply in Illinois below, but this is a nation-wide contest, get details for your home state here and learn more here.
Congresswoman Robin Kelly (IL 2nd)
Students may submit their artwork from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Matteson Office, 600 Holiday Plaza Drive, Suite 505; the Chicago office, 1642 E. 56th Street, Suite 110; or the Danville office by appointment at 425 N. Gilbert Street, Suite 5.
All artwork must be submitted by 3 p.m. on Wednesday, March 26, 2025; please contact Alan D. Banks at Alan.Banks@mail.house.gov, Debbie Alexander-Reaux at (708) 679–0078 to arrange a drop-off time or in Danville, Mary Catherine (Mary.Roberson@mail.house.gov).
The artwork of second, third, and fourth-place winners will be displayed in Representative Kelly’s District Offices. An in-district ceremony will be held Friday, April 4, 2025, from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. at the South Suburban College, Lee E. Dulgar Gallery, 15800 South State Street South Holland.
Question call (708) 679–0078. Submit here by March 26.
Congressman Jonathan Jackson (IL 1st)
Congressman Danny Davis (IL 7th).
How to Enter the 2025 Art Competition
- Contact your representative to confirm your district’s participation and obtain specific guidance
- Review the 2025 Rules for Students and Teachers.
- Complete the 2025 Student Release Form.
- Submit the Student Release Form and any other required materials to your representative by the deadline specified on their website.
WHERE WE AT NOW AT DORSEY FINE ART REPRISES BLACK EXHIBIT FEATURING BLACK RADICAL WOMEN ARTISTS
In early 1971, Kay Brown, Dindga McCannon, and Faith Ringgold gathered a group of Black women at McCannon’s Brooklyn home to discuss their common frustrations in trying to build their careers as artists. Not only did they find that juggling their creative ambitions with their roles as mothers and working heads of households left little time to make and promote their art, but they also felt excluded from the largely white downtown art world as well as from the male-dominated black art world. (Sourced from Buffalo AKG Art Museum)
Out of this initial gathering came one of the first exhibitions of professional Black women artists: “Where We At” — Black Women Artists, 1971.
Brooklyn’s Dorsey Art Gallery’s Acts of Art: Where We At Now asks some of the same questions and features artists McCannon, Ann Tanksley, Lloyd Toone and Frank Wimberley.
Photos are from an Artist Talk held at the gallery on March 9th. The exhibition continues through March 30th.
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