Nakeisha N. Gumbs
My blogs
Blogs I follow
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Museums or Libraries |
| Occupation | Members Department |
| Location | Brooklyn, New York, United States |
| Links | Audio Clip |
| Introduction | Painter, mixed media artist, scholar art administrator, and daughter of the Diaspora. Earning a dual BA in Art and Visual Culture and African American Studies from Bates College, she continued her research on Black Aesthetics in theory and practice at UCLA Ralph E. Bunch Center for African American Studies. She also completed an Artist-In-Residency at Sint Nicolaas Foundation for the Arts in Aruba, and is currently a member of the B. Hive Collective. Returning from LA, Nakeisha joined the BK Renaissance by working for nonprofit orgs such as The Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts and Brooklyn Art Incubator. Staying present by collaborating on community initiatives as a coordinator or curator, she currently freelances program and development projects. Her interests included extending visual arts to underprivileged children facilitated through community orgs such as Pace University Upward Bound and Hillview Family Housing Development. Her works are a combination of her emotional, aesthetical and analytical self. Her research includes Black Arts Pedagogy, Marxist approaches to Black Aesthetics; and Representations in Art of Black Women in the Diaspora. |
| Interests | Painting, Aesthetics in theory and practice, Meditation, Film, the continent and African Diaspora, Africana Studies, Indigenous traditions, Yoruba, Orishas, Dance, Health and wellness, Environmental topics |