Every Wednesday the hours of 8pm to 10pm will be reserved for you to work your art. I will set the atmosphere each week and you will show up as you desire and use the space, time and energy as you need to. There are only a few needs that I require: (1) you’ll need to develop a digital portfolio that encapsulates your time and workings in the salon (2) carry an sustain a sketchbook

Digital portfolio options:

• Are.na Channel
• Pinterest Board
• WordPress

Sketchbook options:

• Physical hard boud, lineless sketchbook: https://amzn.to/3ErWuv6
• Substack, digital chronicling process : https://substack.com/signup (you can make a substack private)
• Google Keep, digital chronicling : https://keep.google.com/

Week of Feb 5

To initiate our first meeting, I want to spend our time together meditating on why we’re here. I’ve read and will continue to read the statements written about your practice and what you’re looking to gain.

Something I’d love for you to bring with you to the session is a reflection about change. We’ll create and develop ideas, concepts and work under the influence of fill in the blank: The word change can be described as ….

Backstory

This salon exists as a cyber space that could be considered as a vulgar version of “The Dark Tower” salons. During the Harlem Renaissance folks like A’Lelia Walker and Zora Neale Hurston would host the artists of their time within space as a solace for socializing and titillating creativity. While these gatherings have been remembered as feasts, indulgences of conversational pleasure, refuge for queerness and also criticized as Jack and Jill-esque partying, I will be erecting this relic as a space for artistic feasting and creation. You can read more about the original Harlem Renaissance salons here: The S Street Salon, Dark Tower and the Saturday Nighters: Salons as Themes in African American Drama

A renaissance is absolutely what I am initiating and so with this introduction, I invite you to