Ashara Ekundayo Gallery

Amped for Tonites lively conversation, post-election, about how Art is a tool for racial and social justice with my @artistasfirstresponder #Oakland Comrades. 11/4, 6-8p pst @blackculturalzone LIVE on YouTube channel! BigUps to: @refa1love @shesash8peshifter @senay.future @spearitwurxoakland #artistasfirstresponder #curatorlife

Our BLATANT forum series has been soooo good! Join us in November for more love, beauty, rage and art banter with curator Ashara Ekundayo with Gia Hamilton and Dawn Okoro Studio! RSVP in link below.

Complete Joy & Congrats to our Sister @simoneyvetteleigh who will be representing the USA at the 2022 edition of the #VeniceBiennale in Italy, the world’s biggest art festival. S/O to #BlackWomen and to #BlackWomenArtists who keep our stories and genius out front and center! Via @artnews Leigh’s Venice Biennale presentation, which will run from April 23 to November 27, 2022, will be followed by an ICA show in 2023. That exhibitionthe New Yorkbased artist’s biggest survey show to datewill include her Biennale works.

TODAY is the LAST DAY to Bid on works from 79 Artists supporting @criticalresistance thru Imagine Freedom Art Works For Abolition + CLOSING NITE PARTY 6-730p PDT! Head over to @artsy #linkinbio and Getchu Some! And, JOIN US tonite for a celebration and LIVE Auction feat. @jackmizrahi #FredMoten @soraya62 @blublakwomyn @erinzulie @346convent and art from @lavathomas @merylpataky @kenturah @hankwillisthomas @pagmi @_xst @wangari_mathenge @theastergates - #imaginefreedomartworksforabolition #prisonabolition #criticalresistance @artistasfirstresponder #curatorlife

Join Ashara Ekundayo for our next installation of BLATANT Love! Oct 20th at 4p pst presented by Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD) and #ArtistAsFirstResponder

Join independent curator #AsharaEkundayo aka @blublakwomyn and artist #KenturahDavis aka @kenturah for a Studio Visit and conversation on the utility of culture and arts practice in the dismantling of the #prisonindustrialcomplex as part of the programming for #ImagineFreedom: Art Works for Abolition, an online exhibition and benefit art auction presented by @CriticalResistance + @artsy from September 29 October 13, 2020. http://imaginefreedom.art/ #linkinbio Friday, Oct 9..., 1:15p PDT Kenturah Davis with Ashara Ekundayo on @moadsf #Facebook @artistasfirstresponder @blatantlove #blackwomen #blackwomxn #blackart #blackwomenartists

BLATANT is a forum and live zine series authored and facilitated by Independent curator and cultural strategist Ashara Ekundayo @blublakwomyn that centers the lived experiences and radical imagination of Black womxn artists and cultural workers creating across discipline and geography. Presented by @moadsf in conjunction with her @artistasfirstresponder platform, this monthly discussion highlights artists whose creative practices heal communities and save lives. This month, T...UESDAY October 20th, 4:00-5:15pm PDT, Ashara Ekundayo will be in conversation with @amarat.smith - Amara Tabor-Smith and @blackfemanthro - Savannah Shange. Amara Tabor-Smith is an Oakland, CA based choreographer/performance maker and the artistic director of Deep Waters Dance Theater. She describes her work as Conjure Art. She makes interdisciplinary site-specific and community responsive performance works utilizing Yoruba Lukumi spiritual technologies to address issues of social and environmental justice, race, gender identity, and belonging. She creates ritual experiences where audience and performers converge in mutual vulnerability and transformation. www.deepwatersdance.com Savannah Shange is an urban anthropologist who works at the intersections of race, place, sexuality, and the state. She is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz with research interests in circulated and lived forms of blackness, ethnographic ethics, Afro-pessimism, and queer of color critique. Ashara Ekundayo is an independent curator and organizer working internationally across cultural, spiritual, civic, and social innovation spaces. Her intersectional worldview offers both an Afrofuturist and Black radical feminist framework to the public sector by centering the lives, traditions, and expertise of Black womxn of the African Diaspora. #art #blackart #blackwomen #blackwomxn #blackwomenartists #blackfeminism #feminist @blatantlove RSVP #LINKINBIO

Excited to visit with these revolutionary storyteller/scholars @Amara Tabor-Smith and @Savannah Shange during our monthly deep dive into art, joy and rage! Join curator Ashara Ekundayo and #ArtistAsFirstResponder for BLATANT! Oct 20th, 4-515p pdt. RSVP at https://bit.ly/34qsc6x

Honored to partner, steward and curate with @CriticalResistance and @artsy to present Imagine Freedom - Art Works For Abolition Online Exhibition & Benefit Auction 2020, featuring works by @kwamebphoto, @lavathomas, @kenturah, @theastergates, @wangari_mathenge, @hankwillisthomas and many more. Over 75 of the most influential and important artists of our time who have used their voices and creative practice to amplify the movement to abolish the prison industrial complex hav...e generously partnered to support the ongoing grassroots organizing efforts of #CriticalResistance in these unprecedented times. Artist Lineup and Special Programming Calendar HERE #linkinbio http://criticalresistance.org/imaginefreedom2020/ #ImagineFreedom #prisonindustrialcomplex #prisonabolition #abolition @artistasfirstresponder #artistsareessentialworkers

Curator/Arts Organizer Ashara Ekundayo will join a panel of artists/curators/organizers in conversation at @CCA on Sept 23rd w/ professor Sam Vernon - Join Us! https://portal.cca.edu//ccacca-hosts-virtual-brunch-conv/

A BLATANT LOVE is given freely. As the Sun sets on this final day of #BlackAugust2020 a tradition of that originates in the prison system to honor fallen freedom fighters murdered at the hands of the State, we want to echo that we must continue to reimagine freedom, organize, fight, and win our liberation. We know that ARTISTS play an integral role in the design, execution and amplification of the strategy and success of the Movement and that Black womxn and femmes are vit...al participants in the unbroken line of resistance and sacrifice throughout history. We offer you our whole selves and as part of our #artspractice which never stops, never sleeps, never ends pandemic be damned! This inaugural issue of BLATANT a zine on Art, Beauty & Rage presented by @artistasfirstresponder exclusively features the art work of #Blackwomen whose creative practices heal communities and save lives. Limited Edition Printed Copies for Sale and FREE PDF Download Are Available. Info/Link in Bio. Volume One. Issue One. #BlackAugust @b_u_s_h_m_a_m_a @creolemaroon @HouseFullOfBlackWomen @jessicacaremoor @justuskitchen @bluekaza @tar_babyyyy @reginasdoor @samevernon @sonyareneetaylor @asyaabdrahman @blublakwomyn @lynneedenise @waheedpix BLATANT (zine) is produced by Founder/Editor/Creative Director @blublakwomyn Editorial Production Manager @uniqgrace Graphics/layout Editor #justincarder (Cover Photography: Ancestors Prepare For Battle by @creolemaroon) #blatant #blatantlove #blatantrage #blatantbeauty #blatantjoy #blackaugust #august2020 #blacklivesmatter #bipoc #blackhistory #abolition #PrisonIndustrialComplex #blackwomen #blackwomxn #blackart #blackwomenartists #artistasfirstresponder #artistsareessentialworkers