This weekend was amazing. Thank you to everyone that came out, asked questions, dug deep, allowed yourself to be uncomfortable, and allowed yourself to feel, learn, and experience. Art is intended to evoke emotion and that’s exactly what I wanted and exactly what we did, good and bad. When I approached @sonyapfeiffer from @elder_gallery_clt last year I brought the concept of: What can we do to push what it means to do an art show outside the perimeters of gallery and more than just art on the wall. I wanted something bigger, something that would be an entire experience. I wanted to shed the archaic model of wine and cheese and people standing around disconnected from the art. I wanted the viewer to be completely emerged in the experience so they too were a part of the art. We sat on this for months and eventually enlisted @dammit_wesley to curate a diverse roster of artists from different mediums and in different points of their career that could push the limits of experiencing art around the narrative of civil rights and social injustice and that’s how Off the Plantation was born. If you missed part one, join us for part two, the emancipation February 8-10. Also, follow these amazing artists and support them on their journey as you have supported me:

@dammit_wesley
@iamkingcarla
@kmuiii
@fart.pdf
@simplisticphobia
@christian_duprez

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