THE RESET : A Social Salon

THE RESET : A Social Salon

Adult Course | This program is completed

200 Grant Street Denver, CO 80203 United States

A02

9/16/2022 (one day)

5:30 PM-8:30 PM MDT on Fri

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The Reset: A Social Salon....

Attend presentation and performance by Dr. Devon Wright: Metropolitan State College Professor, Artist & Author of Afro Futurist comic series ‘The Avant Guardians’ or participate in Plein Air Figure Drawing session with artist Faatma Be One and performance artist Xencs Littlewing. Soundscape by DJ Beloved.

 

Why The Reset?

Once upon a time artist communities of color naturally congregated at certain spaces in the city. These opportunities to gather encouraged artistic collaborations and community building.  A changing city-scape has not only affected the abundance of those spaces, but the number of collaborations borne as a result of something as simple as socializing. The Reset is a quarterly social salon reimagining resourcefulness, reconnection and collaboration among visual artists and creative communities of color as a whole in Colorado.

  • If you're interested in the drawing class, please bring your own drawing supplies. Drawing horse and paper will be provided.

Holly-Kai Hurd is both a visual artist and an educator. Blending her artistic and ARTivist ideals, her work focuses on art as a means of self-discovery and healing. She has remained committed to the art of storytelling utilizing various mediums such as fashion, textiles, graphic arts and even culinary art to explore the domestic arts and tradition. She served as Curator of The Charles Cousins Gallery at The Blair Caldwell Library from 2009-2012 where under the name Art Blaque she curated over 36 shows to include Culinary Chronicles of Blackness, Get On The Bus, Bringing Forth Beauty: African American Women Create, Black Resistance IS (Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Studios) and more. While there she founded ‘LIVE On The Canvas’ a live interview platform for local artists and publication at The Blair Caldwell Library (2010). Holly has worked with various organizations such as It Takes A Village, Summer Scholars, The Etta B. Jackson Cultural Village, Caldwell Kirk Mortuary. Holly holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Film from Emerson College (Boston, MA).