What is ZEAL?
We Create Spaces for Black Artists to Thrive.
Our worker-owned multimedia group is a studio, creative agency , and multimedia platform that provides artist development and cultural production support to Black artists and creatives across the diaspora. We are a network of Black artists creating spaces for learning, support infrastructure, and opportunity for Black cultural platforms with an immersive and participatory approach to harness our cultural equity. We see ourselves as cultural co-creators that are continuing the legacy of the Black Arts Movement, by providing the support systems necessary for our cultural work to evolve beyond flashpoint moments of crisis. We see ourselves as cultural conjurers and alchemists that are continuing the legacy of our ancestors by providing the support systems necessary for our cultural work to thrive economically.
We collaborate through leadership development, skill sharing and consulting with Black creatives as well as organizations, companies, art & literary collectives, cultural institutions, other programs, brands, and platforms that highlight and center Black art and culture. ZEAL is currently based in Inglewood, CA and Brooklyn, NY.
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Who Owns Black Art?
Our 2019 Art Basel Miami Activation
A large scale pop-up art exhibition, cultural convening, and cultural equity strategy hub marking the 400th year commemoration of the TransAtlantic Slave Trade and the 12th month of the Year of Return declared by the Ghanaian government.
Who Owns Black Art ? will take place in Little Haiti, where culture, history and legacy of Black liberation is facing down gentrification through at the hands of artists and culture makers.
Hosted at the Miami Urban Contemporary Experience; cultural ambassadors of arts in heritage Miami neighborhoods.
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About us
ZEAL is a creative studio cooperative for visual and performance artists throughout the Black diaspora. We use curated publications to celebrate our culture, assert our voices, archive our legacy, and showcase our creative competencies. Our vision is to create space for Black artists to thrive. We are currently based in Los Angeles and New York City.
