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Who Owns Black Art? has been taking place in Little Haiti since 2019, where culture, history and legacy of Black liberation is facing down gentrification through at the hands of artists and culture makers. Our flagship cultural production work in Miami has been featured in the New York Times, ArtNet News, TravelNoire, Blavity, Hyperallergic, Paper Magazine, ABC Nightline, and Deem Journal. 2019 was hosted at the Miami Urban Contemporary Experience; 2020 we held an online art auction in partnership with Sugarcane Magazine, and 2022 we partnered with The Roots Collective Black House, founded by the late Danny Agnew; cultural ambassadors of arts in heritage Miami neighborhoods. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/620e9673bac9eb658cb3b7b8/8d65b787-b397-480b-ac2e-aff35d45d471/_44A7263+2+%281%29.jpg HOME - Communities of Practice: Creative Economy We co-create and host communities of practice. 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This manifesto covers the pilot period of one of the few cooperatively owned and Black operated arts studio incubators in the country. Published May 11th 2022. Publishing Without Walls (PWW) is an imprint of the Illinois Open Publishing Network at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/620e9673bac9eb658cb3b7b8/1645123214242-RWXJ16Z8IHRFPFMW8MZ4/basel+flyer_4X6+%281%29.png PROJECTS - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/620e9673bac9eb658cb3b7b8/1645123208384-3FN4ETTZ2UHW3MDM171W/Copy+of+Copy+of+Spread+The+Wealth.png PROJECTS - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/620e9673bac9eb658cb3b7b8/1645123208388-3QQ0HDMYXGT5WT2V66BW/Copy+of++MASTERMIND+SALON+NYC+%281920+%C3%97+1080+px%29.png PROJECTS - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://zeal.coop/join-us daily 0.75 2022-02-22 https://zeal.coop/membership-faqs daily 0.75 2025-02-28 https://zeal.coop/artist-cohort-studio-program daily 0.75 2024-09-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/620e9673bac9eb658cb3b7b8/8b33257b-b497-47bd-8737-aa1a5a0346dc/img1369.jpeg Art Studio Incubator Participants - Bryant Woolcock A South Central Los Angeles native, visual artist Bryant Woolcock creates work that captures Black life in imaginative ways that dance between cinematic, surreal, and escapism. He has worked extensively in the realm of still images and is also making motion pictures. As he continues to expand his artistry through innovative imagery and ideas, Woolcock’s creative expression knows no bounds. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/620e9673bac9eb658cb3b7b8/db058885-3851-47d4-ba15-b74ed39308f2/revahead.jpeg Art Studio Incubator Participants - Reva Santo Reva Santo is a multi-disciplinary artist and creative alchemist. She graduated in Film Studies from Columbia University, where she was awarded the Louis Sudler Prize in the Arts for her script Ash(é), and the Henry Evans Travel Fellowship to conduct arts-based research in the Caribbean. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/620e9673bac9eb658cb3b7b8/1645123219532-OHLP8CQKCW09Y5CS8DNA/TeethMagazine_roegcohen_DevinBJohnson_6.jpg Art Studio Incubator Participants - Devin B. Johnson Devin B. Johnson is a painter from LA, and is currently based in Brooklyn, New York. He received his BA in Fine Arts from the California State University of Channel Islands (2015) and a Masters of Fine Arts at Pratt Institute (2019). He was one of sixteen artists from around the world selected for the inaugural year of the Black Rock Senegal residency, and was featured in the Northeast and MFA issue of New American Paintings (2019). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/620e9673bac9eb658cb3b7b8/2e08f117-e58e-42b0-a6ed-d3b3d080b387/Screen+Shot+2023-11-01+at+11.49.19+PM.png Art Studio Incubator Participants - Nandi Jordan, Ph.D Nandi is a self-taught artist, filmmaker, sociologist, wife and mother of two. Her art uses mixed media collage, film photography and printmaking to tell stories about the conflicts and contradictions in modern day black life. Her work is deeply influenced by her upbringing - an identical twin and the child of two black academics - and her training as a sociologist and researcher. While her work is very personal it also connects to broad themes in black popular culture and mainstream American social life. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/620e9673bac9eb658cb3b7b8/48603a22-2122-4511-8934-786c7c4c00d2/1651532644868.jpeg Art Studio Incubator Participants - Autumn Breon Williams Autumn Breon who was a former faculty for the studio incubator program creates art that investigates the visual vocabulary of liberation through a queer Black feminist lens. A graduate of Stanford University, she studied Aeronautics & Astronautics and researched aeronautical astrobiology applications for NASA. Autumn’s examination of contemporary art throughout the African Diaspora began when she was living and working in South Africa. Through inquiry-based interaction, she invites audiences to participate in the examination of freedom, intersectional identities, and Diasporic memory. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/620e9673bac9eb658cb3b7b8/1645123219536-XG7X42C3O32AVXR435OX/EIM+-+PORTRAIT+IN+THE+STUDIO+%28PHOTO+BY+AVILA+SANTO%29.jpg Art Studio Incubator Participants - Eilen Itzel Mena Eilen Itzel Mena is an Afro-Dominican American artist, writer and community organizer originally from the South Bronx.Her visual arts practice synthesizes Abstract Expressionism, Surrealism and African Diaspora spiritual frameworks through interdisciplinary work. In her social practice, she serves as a Co-Director and creative collaborator for Honey and Smoke and principal member of ZEAL. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/620e9673bac9eb658cb3b7b8/1645123219528-4CZX33K3Y055F6T2GV7Y/avatars-000292494710-n7rtap-t500x500.jpeg Art Studio Incubator Participants - Avila Santo Avila Santo is an award winning percussionist, composer, martial artist, dancer, educator and multi media artist from Los Angeles California. He has released two albums, (Omnipresence & Maze). Avila is a multiple recipient of the DCA Artist in Residence Grant, and participated in the Zeal Studio Incubator program. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/620e9673bac9eb658cb3b7b8/4f2b4a70-8c4d-4fe6-8abc-1a3cc34ed58c/Screen+Shot+2023-11-02+at+9.22.12+PM.png Art Studio Incubator Participants - Danielle Hill Danielle Ariel Hill is a former ZEAL studio member and started out as an intern for the artist studio incubator program. Cleveland-born artist and arts manager based in Pasadena, CA. At the center of her work is interdependency, love, connection, and familial practices. The intersection of her practice blossoms through art exploring nature, spirituality, and interconnectedness evoking awareness of the present state of being. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/620e9673bac9eb658cb3b7b8/1645123219541-8AH2NECZM4UAHSWC57F9/46749908_2406021506078990_5634750101667708928_n.jpg Art Studio Incubator Participants - Mylo MU Mylo MU is a music producer and visual artist utilizing music to design a new world for his listeners. Hailing from Inglewood, CA, Mylo’s music was birthed in the heart of Leimert Park’s rap scene. MU layersmetaphors, life experiences, and sparks of knowledge over creamy jazz and and spaced out memorable hip-hop rhythms converting abstraction into a witty sonic aesthetic. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/620e9673bac9eb658cb3b7b8/1f50deee-be37-4fcb-8293-063402e1c57e/Screen+Shot+2023-11-01+at+11.44.41+PM.png Art Studio Incubator Participants - Adrian White Adrian is a lens'-based artist specializing in photography, video installation and the archive. Grappling with a false allure of truth, he documents the African diaspora in an effort to connect with his ancestors. History is manipulated, reconfigured to fit agendas. Their systematic extermination has been erased from history and silenced in classrooms. he remembers them, connects with them - so that we can begin to heal. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/620e9673bac9eb658cb3b7b8/8d5875a9-c246-43ec-ab25-8afb41dc1cb9/Screen+Shot+2023-11-01+at+11.51.17+PM.png Art Studio Incubator Participants - Chef Chanell Chanell is a culinary artist who is passionate about creating food for the soul, the use of fresh quality ingredients, and letting flavors speak for themselves. Chef Chanell uses her creativity to provide menu consultation, stir up magic + coordinate details of each experience offered to ensure a one-of-a-kind affair. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/620e9673bac9eb658cb3b7b8/1645123219547-7VAVWQ07Z9HD8JZODDPD/241544765_144438197813638_6691548426338471898_n.jpg Art Studio Incubator Participants - Solomon Henry Solomon Henry is a story teller and artist from Los Angeles. He creates dynamic and powerful photographic portraits and finds purpose in showcasing the abundance of beauty in his environment. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/620e9673bac9eb658cb3b7b8/f2ab50f0-d826-4b22-9ce8-0dbf519fead6/Screen+Shot+2023-11-01+at+11.48.56+PM.png Art Studio Incubator Participants - Gbenga Komolafe Gbenga is a former ZEAL studio member draws inspiration from parallels between the traditional African art practices looted from his Yoruba ancestors and the innovative craftsmanship of mid-20th-century queer and black American communities, both being pillars of postmodern abstraction. Through their introspective and process-driven practice, Gbenga meditates on the often unrewarded labor of their queer and diasporic forefolks who envisioned utopia thorugh experimentation and worked to actualize thsi vision through the radical act of survival. https://zeal.coop/principals daily 0.75 2024-11-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/620e9673bac9eb658cb3b7b8/1645123222485-UQE1H3T9OQWUPFFGPNQW/DannyDunson.JPG PRINCIPALS - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/620e9673bac9eb658cb3b7b8/1645123222515-XJGE2BZ0MZ2CDLC9F67V/Shawn-Escoffery-sq.jpeg PRINCIPALS - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/620e9673bac9eb658cb3b7b8/28beb4da-f25e-4ebb-be84-360b67202cda/BW-buttonup.jpeg PRINCIPALS - ANSHANTIA “TIA” OSO Tia Oso is a transformational organizer and cultural strategist. A community engagement professional specializing in social change initiatives at the intersection of civic engagement, art, popular culture, media and communications. A dynamic and experienced social justice leader, Oso founded the Metro Los Angeles studio practice and leads the studio’s social impact work. She has organized for over 10 years, leading campaigns to mobilize thousands of advocates for various issues in the public interest including civil rights, public art and arts education, immigration policy, voting rights, access and engagement, economic equity and gentrification, equity in the tech industry, human rights, and international solidarity. Tia’s work in social impact includes using popular education and messaging strategy to connect grassroots leaders with leading entertainers in music, sports and Hollywood for incredible initiatives such as Athletes For Impact, BLD PWR and other exciting campaigns connecting advocacy with culture shift. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/620e9673bac9eb658cb3b7b8/1645123222508-6RAGCKSK6Q2FI6PR3SMP/JessicaNorwood2.jpg PRINCIPALS - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/620e9673bac9eb658cb3b7b8/1645123222495-EE69TQAT6GKHVE82AR4R/DuaneCyrus.JPG PRINCIPALS - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/620e9673bac9eb658cb3b7b8/1645123222512-W3O1R1T09MRPSBFA8TDF/MarieVickles.JPG PRINCIPALS - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/620e9673bac9eb658cb3b7b8/1645123222503-OUGGAJBIGPO5SPG7ICE0/GerardAnthony.JPG PRINCIPALS - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/620e9673bac9eb658cb3b7b8/1645123222491-VSHZ6UV7L6A50JOD8GF9/DerrickBineyAmissah.JPG PRINCIPALS - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/620e9673bac9eb658cb3b7b8/1645123222499-D7K270KGZ09U0WDGRZRA/FrancineTomakloe.JPG PRINCIPALS - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/620e9673bac9eb658cb3b7b8/1645123222475-DZH5IKJNR81NC15SCP2L/IMG_4338+%281%29+%281%29.jpg PRINCIPALS - TY WHITE Ty White is an artist/creator, transformational leadership advisor, and spiritual and cultural educator from Phoenix, Arizona. She currently serves as the Membership Principal at ZEAL where she co-developed and co-facilitates a specialized artist and creative talent development curriculum designed to cultivate the artist's true potential through the modality of creation. She has provided this support in the music and entertainment industry. In addition to receiving her bachelors in Social and Behavioral science in 2013, being licensed and ordained as a minister, Ty is also pursuing a degree in Pro Consciousness Medicine (natural medicine) from Quantum University. Committed to life transformation, Ty has spent over 15 years servicing the community in the areas of healing trauma, life vision casting and empowerment to fulfill purpose. Ty specializes in root cause analysis and developing personalized curriculum for maximum goal attainment, while providing impromptu coaching and guidance for continued support along the journey. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/620e9673bac9eb658cb3b7b8/deac21e2-8960-4f72-a34e-93b15fdcda72/CRR-myuz.png PRINCIPALS - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/620e9673bac9eb658cb3b7b8/a575bbb9-7ee7-4fda-bf7d-f2558bc81cc0/2oceans.png PRINCIPALS - WALTER CRUZ Co-Founder of ZEAL and current studio member, Walter Cruz is a creative collaborator exploring how Black and brown bodies activate and take up space. Cruz has completed residencies and fellowships with The Laundromat Project and NurtureArt Gallery amongst others. As well as shown work in galleries and museums including The Museum of the City of New York, the Center for Political Graphics Los Angeles, Band of Vices gallery, Syracuse University and Longwood Gallery in The Bronx. Cruz has served as a visual designer for the Black Alliance for Just Immigration (BAJI) the Marsha P Johnson Institute (MPJI) and Breakthrough US. Formerly a member of the Black Lives Matter Network where he served as one of the original members of the network’s Arts + Culture Committee. Walter is graduate at the Maryland Institute College of Art's with an MFA from Mount Royal School of Art. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/620e9673bac9eb658cb3b7b8/1645123222439-X9FOXSOYEE1VDYG0WV7P/Allenstreetview.png PRINCIPALS - ALLEN KWABENA FRIMPONG Co-Founder of ZEAL, Allen Kwabena Frimpong a.k.a nii.a.k is a cooperative entrepreneur and conceptual artist who engages in cultural design to organize and promote solidarity economy as a lifestyle worth living. Allen’s body of work for over 20+ years as a capacity-building specialist with advisement and coaching modalities has a harm reduction approach towards inviting fellow co-conspirators to experience what liberation from a capitalist world could be. He has been providing support to philanthropic institutions and non-profits across sectors internationally with organizations such as the Harm Reduction Coalition, BCT Partners, Grantmakers in the Arts, art.coop, Community Foundation of New Jersey, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Ford Foundation, Open Society Foundations, Borealis Philanthropy, Movement NetLab, and the Start Network in the UK. He is the current board chair of Resist Foundation, one of the oldest social movement worker self-directed public foundation in the United States, and his work on cultural design, solidarity economy, and networks is published in books like Decolonizing Wealth and Impact Networks as well as in the Stanford Social Innovation Review. One of his conceptual pieces, “Waves and Beats in Sankofa” was published in Vol. 1 Issue 2 of Rootwork Journal’s, “Navigating the Ocean”. He graduated with his master’s degree in Urban Planning & Affairs at CUNY Hunter College in New York City. He studied at the New York Jazz Workshop in Jazz Vocals and Piano. He is a graduate of UPenn School of Social Policy in the Arts & Cultural Strategy Executive Program with National Arts Strategies (NAS) as well as Cornell University’s ILR Program on Labor Leadership Skills. https://zeal.coop/contact daily 0.75 2022-02-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59dce94549fc2b64d089a33b/1510173996471-WV6ESTQIMJE3JHHDO3O6/Header_04_008.jpg Contact - Contact https://zeal.coop/our-programs-impact daily 0.75 2022-02-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/620e9673bac9eb658cb3b7b8/1645567125597-APEFSLQOGQQCTKQVRLKA/unsplash-image-lb6A9m55f2w.jpg Our Programs https://zeal.coop/press-quote-impact daily 0.75 2022-02-22 https://zeal.coop/contact-impact daily 0.75 2025-03-05 https://zeal.coop/communitystudioincubator daily 0.75 2024-04-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/620e9673bac9eb658cb3b7b8/ea3d1858-b037-4aa3-aa6b-e388f5bbe6e8/Copy+of+headshot.jpeg Community Studio Incubator Program - Make it stand out Nandi Jordan is a multidisciplinary visual artist interested in exposing the complexities and contradictions in her everyday Black life. Trained as a sociologist and self-taught as an artist, Jordan’s art practice weaves the personal with the cultural and historical, creating thought-provoking juxtapositions of image and text. She found her way to art while earning her doctorate in sociology, often cutting and repurposing seminal texts and family photographs as a way of finding her own visual language. Her art uses both personal and found images alongside book pages to interrogate her own life experiences within the context of the broader Black experience. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/620e9673bac9eb658cb3b7b8/7b006959-2934-4c36-a986-3d2793212a5b/final+ITMOTI+panel.jpg Community Studio Incubator Program - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/620e9673bac9eb658cb3b7b8/e087585c-4c96-49c5-87ef-f8253e197474/Auttrianna+Photo+2023.jpg Community Studio Incubator Program - Make it stand out Curator: Auttrianna Ward https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/620e9673bac9eb658cb3b7b8/6bf903ac-1b79-4d72-b7f1-2016499a34f6/IMG_0179.PNG Community Studio Incubator Program - Make it stand out Leah King is an artist, musician, and educator based in Los Angeles. She creates audio installations and interactive visual art works that explore race, gender, power, and queerness through an afrofuturist lens. By incorporating archival family photos and first-hand interviews, her layered collages and soundscapes feature historical images, religious texts, layered vocal harmonies, and candid observations, to create new methods of storytelling. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/620e9673bac9eb658cb3b7b8/af28ba57-4704-4128-9b07-2f36d1c3f8c1/Copy+of+Copy+of+Copy+of+Copy+of+A3362967-6D24-4E63-A4DF-6070136F9424.jpeg Community Studio Incubator Program - Make it stand out House of Aama is the spiritual expression of mother and daughter design duo, Rebecca Henry and Akua Shabaka in material form. House of Aama explores the folkways of the Black experience by designing timeless garments with nostalgic references informed by historical research, archival analysis, and storytelling. We aim to evoke dialogue, social commentary and conversations around heritage, remembrance and shed light on nuanced histories. House of Aama presents its fashion items as an offering for raw, primal energy to exist in physical form. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/620e9673bac9eb658cb3b7b8/aef96271-cac5-4a61-b5ac-451049c3c829/final+ITMOTI+flyer.jpg Community Studio Incubator Program - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/620e9673bac9eb658cb3b7b8/16c5802b-914e-4eea-bdaa-b0c51207aa5a/Portfolio_GLOPEZ_8.jpg Community Studio Incubator Program - Make it stand out Gbenga Komolafe is Nigerian artist based in Los Angeles exploring the intersections of sculpture, film, and site-specific installation. He draws inspiration from the traditional African ritual practices rooted from my Yoruba ancestors and the innovative craftsmanship of mid-20th-century queer and Black American communities. Through introspective and research-driven practice, he continues the often unrewarded labor of his queer and diasporic lineage, to envision and actualize radical futures through both embrace of tradition and continual experimentation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/620e9673bac9eb658cb3b7b8/f9835f0d-6491-457b-b71d-61fb735bc109/final+ITMOTI+eventbrite.jpg Community Studio Incubator Program - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://zeal.coop/helpdesk daily 0.75 2023-07-10 https://zeal.coop/helpdesk-rej daily 0.75 2023-10-18 https://zeal.coop/clients daily 0.75 2025-12-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/620e9673bac9eb658cb3b7b8/afb95561-70b7-4a5d-a5fa-3965f559d474/Screen+Shot+2025-03-04+at+2.10.47+PM.png CLIENTS - Make it stand out We cultivated the narrative and media messaging for Greg Lauren‘s Summer 2021 collection resulting in his essay for “Deconstructing Americana”. We provided the designer with framing of his fashion work for the line around deconstruction with comfort and sustainability as a part of the ethos of his brand in partnership with Gee’s Bend Quiltmakers. We supported their social impact campaign centering racial justice in the fashion industry in collaboration with Blacks in Fashion Council. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/620e9673bac9eb658cb3b7b8/a1ad06dd-20cf-46f3-835d-409b863a4a7c/AZ-Commission-on-the-Arts.png CLIENTS - Make it stand out We provided capacity-building support with grant writing and resource development to prospective grantees for their artist development and creative capacity grant programs. We established a call in center and online office hours where prospective grantees could get creative talent development, fundraising, and proposal advisement. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/620e9673bac9eb658cb3b7b8/d1eb8b6c-3daa-4182-bfeb-50e7e0e79353/getty+logo.png CLIENTS We consulted with Crenshaw Creative and Destination Crenshaw to provide creative talent development and project management technical assistance to support the production of the Getty’s 25th anniversary arts and wellness festival, Crenshaw Remembers, at Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Mall in Los Angeles, CA in August 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/620e9673bac9eb658cb3b7b8/940e2498-8213-49dd-aa5c-59db4ff184f2/Borealis-Philanthropy-Journalism-Fund.jpg CLIENTS We partnered with Borealis Philanthropy’s Racial Equity in Journalism Fund over the past three years to co-create their community of practice of over 40 grantees. We providing strategic design, facilitation, and coordinate operational services to host peer facilitation sessions with grantees to strengthen their newsroom and journalism institutions led by historically marginalized communities and identify the ways in which the larger media and philanthropy sectors can benefit from this shared knowledge. As a result, we also produced their Infinite Patterns podcast in 2024.