AAFR Presents
BLATANT Issue Two
Limited Edition Broadsheet Newspaper (500 copies)
Featuring work by:
Adrianne Ramsey | Amber McZeal | Amir Khadar | Binta Ayofemi | Bryant Terry | Calvin Williams | Inés Ixierda (Gardilcic) | Crystal Wahpepah | Dohee Lee | Jess Sabogal + Shanna Strauss | Lucia Olubunmi Momoh | Marcel Pardo Ariza + Juan Carlos Rodriguez Rivera | Marvin K. White | Micah Bizant | Morning Star Gali | Nina (Dj NinaSol) Robinson | Olka Forster | Rachel Wolfe Goldsmith | Sh8peshifter | Robbie Sweeny | Sarah Crowell | Sydney Cain | Tongo Eisen Martin
AAFR Presents
BLATANT Issue One: Black August
Limited Edition Broadsheet Newspaper (250 copies)
Featuring work by:
Asya Abdrahman • BushMama Africa • Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo • Lynnée Denise • Ashara Ekundayo • Regina Evans • House/Full of BlackWomen • Ra Malika Imhotep • Jocelyn Jackson • jessica Care moore • Courtney Desiree Morris • Sonya Renee Taylor • Sam Vernon • Adreinne Waheed
What Is "Artist As First Responder?" #AAFR
It is my premise after 30 years of informal and formal study that at each junction, when there is a Disaster or when there is a Drastic Urgent Need that it is our Creative/Artistic selves who emerge to forge Solutions – indeed Interventions. This creative work saves lives and often takes place in the form of ceremony.
What I know is that artists respond at the edges of Birth and Death by rescuing, making, and stewarding creative pursuits on the frontline edges of catastrophe and celebration — as in hurricane, as in border patrol, land grabs, dog parks, and 750 sq. ft. Downtown studio apartments that cost $3,000, as in a “ring shout” for healing and as-in “my Momma just died” please sing to me.
"Artist As First Responder" is an interactive platform with digital media and print ephemera including a coffee table art book highlighting the work of International Artists whose creative practices save lives and heal communities."
—Ashara Ekundayo
Founder, Editor & Creative Director—Ashara Ekundayo
Editorial Production Manager—Unique Holland
Graphics & Layout Editor—Justin Carder
BLATANT Zine, a publication of Artist as First Responder is supported by: Girls & Womxn of Color Collaborative
African American Art & Culture Complex • Akonadi Foundation • The San Francisco Foundation • Wakanda Dream Lab at Movement Strategy Center • QUIET • Women’s Foundation of California • ReCAST Grant at City of Oakland Human Services Department • Omi Arts