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Contemporary Black Canvas

Celebrating the Depth and Breadth of Black Artistic and Intellectual Thought

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Ep 13 Soul Fire Farm with Leah Penniman

Ep 13 Soul Fire Farm with Leah Penniman

This week at Contemporary Black Canvas, we are excited to introduce you to Leah Penniman, co-founder with her husband Jo... Read more

8 Jun 2017

1hr 3mins

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EP 23 Visual Artist, Architectural Designer, and Poet Komi Olaf

EP 23 Visual Artist, Architectural Designer, and Poet Komi Olaf

On this episode, I am joined by CBC’s research assistant, Jasmine Newton. In this episode, we interviewed architectural ... Read more

27 Jan 2018

46mins

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EP 22 Educator Khalilah Brann

EP 22 Educator Khalilah Brann

Welcome to Contemporary Black Canvas, where we celebrate the depth and breadth of the Black artistic and intellectual tr... Read more

14 Jan 2018

1hr 3mins

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EP 4 VISUAL ARTIST AKILI RON ANDERSON

EP 4 VISUAL ARTIST AKILI RON ANDERSON

In this episode, I had the honor of  interviewing Washington-D.C. based visual artist Akili Ron Anderson. Akili Ron Ande... Read more

16 Dec 2016

46mins

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EP 24 Curator Meg Onli

EP 24 Curator Meg Onli

Welcome to Contemporary Black Canvas. I am your host, Dr. Pia Deas. This week we had the pleasure of speaking with Meg O... Read more

24 Feb 2019

1hr 6mins

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EP 5 Filmmaker, Curator, Festival Organizer Maori Karmael Holmes

EP 5 Filmmaker, Curator, Festival Organizer Maori Karmael Holmes

In this week’s episode, I caught up with filmmaker, festival organizer, and curator Maori Holmes. Most recently, she is ... Read more

21 Dec 2016

1hr 2mins

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EP 17: Mixed Media Visual Artist Amber Robles-Gordon

EP 17: Mixed Media Visual Artist Amber Robles-Gordon

On this episode of Contemporary Black Canvas, we had the pleasure of interviewing the mixed media visual artist, Amber R... Read more

7 Aug 2017

58mins

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EP 09 Tuskegee Heirs (Marcus Williams and Greg Burnham)

EP 09 Tuskegee Heirs (Marcus Williams and Greg Burnham)

In this week’s episode, we had the pleasure of conducting an interview with Greg Burnham and Marcus Williams, creators o... Read more

11 Feb 2017

1hr 8mins

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EP 6 Dishes of the Diaspora with Pascale Boucicaut and Adachi Pimentel

EP 6 Dishes of the Diaspora with Pascale Boucicaut and Adachi Pimentel

In this episode, I interviewed Pascale Boucicaut, a culinary artist, and Adachi Pimentel a photographer, who together fo... Read more

30 Dec 2016

1hr 2mins

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EP 11 Pediatrician & Poet Irene Mathieu

EP 11 Pediatrician & Poet Irene Mathieu

This week on Contemporary Black Canvas we had the pleasure of interviewing physician and poet Irene Mathieu. Irene Mathi... Read more

11 Mar 2017

53mins

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BAM Ep 2: Jae and Wadsworth Jarrell

BAM Ep 2: Jae and Wadsworth Jarrell

Welcome to Contemporary Black Canvas, where we celebrate the depth and breadth of the Black artistic and intellectual tr... Read more

1 Jan 2018

1hr 5mins

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EP 15 Dr. Russell Rickford and We Are An African People

EP 15 Dr. Russell Rickford and We Are An African People

On this episode of Contemporary Black Canvas, I had the pleasure of interviewing historian Russell Rickford about his mo... Read more

7 Jul 2017

58mins

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EP 21: Tommy Joshua, Founder of North Philadelphia Peace Park

EP 21: Tommy Joshua, Founder of North Philadelphia Peace Park

In this episode we had the pleasure of speaking with Tommy “Junebug” Joshua, the founder & visionary behind the Nort... Read more

31 Dec 2017

1hr 23mins

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Ep 3 Mendi + Keith Obadike

Ep 3 Mendi + Keith Obadike

In this week’s episode, I had the opportunity to interview sound artists Mendi and Keith Obadike. Mendi and Keith Obadik... Read more

9 Dec 2016

46mins

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Ep 2 Dancer and Choreographer Lela Aisha Jones

Ep 2 Dancer and Choreographer Lela Aisha Jones

In this episode, I had the pleasure of interviewing dancer and choreographer Lela Aisha Jones, whose work infuses her mo... Read more

29 Nov 2016

56mins

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