Part 1 of a 2-part Artist Talk & Consortium organized in conjunction with Christie’s with The Harlem Arts Alliance as an advocate for artists locally and globally.
“Say It Loud 2020 is Christie's online art exhibition, curated in partnership with Destinee Ross-Sutton. The event features a live vocal performance and DJ set by DJ Spinna.”
Halima Taha moderates a panel of Curlee Raven Holton, Master Printmaker and Director of the David C Driskell Center for the Study of African American Art and African Diasporic Visual Culture, Heather Carter, Carter Fine Art, Dodji Gbedemah, Kente Royal Gallery.
In this episode, Eric speaks with esteemed scholar and writer, Halima Taha. She shares her experience of how she first came into contact with the arts, and her experience as co-owner of the Onyx Art Gallery, the first gallery in Gramercy Park to sell abstract art by American artists of African descent.
This panel explores the importance of the scholarly documentation of Black artists and how their work is critiqued and recorded throughout the African Diaspora.
Panelists: Patricia Andrews-Keenan, Founder, Pigment International and Black Fine Art Month Myrtis Bedolla, Curator, Founding Director, Galerie Myrtis Fine Art & Advisory, Baltimore MD Dr. Kelli Morgan, Curator, Indianapolis Museum, Halima Taha, Arts Management Professional, Curator, Appraiser, Writer, Author of “Collecting African American Art”
A conversation with Robin Holder about her research based, mixed media technique works that are saturated with cultural references that reveal the conflicts of the human condition.
This panel seeks to investigate the importance of intra-dialogue and critic within the Black visual arts community. Pulling together both an international and inter-generational panel of curators, writers, and critics to generate a well-rounded discussion on the value of criticism.
Artists in the House: Collecting Art of the African Diaspora
by Allentown Art Museum
“Has the production of art from the African Diaspora moved beyond “Black Art?” What works are most collected by institutions and private collectors? Who determines the intellectual or aesthetic value of a work of art?
Watch our short recap of the recent Allentown Art Museum discussion with panelists Danny Simmons, collector, curator, artist, and activist; Eric Edwards, collector of African art and artifacts; and Halima Taha, Ph.D. “ - Allentown Art Museum
This segment is being presented live with New York- based curator-art historian Halima Taha, the curator of the exhibit Pigment of the Soul: Visiting Artist Prints, 2019-2021
