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We had the opportunity to work with the Minnesota Historical Society on their new initiative [...]

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We had the opportunity to work with the Minnesota Historical Society on their new initiative [...]

Umbra Exhibition

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We had the opportunity to work with the @minnesota

We had the opportunity to work with the @minnesota

We had the opportunity to work with the @minnesota

This series exists to remind us of the struggle fa

This series exists to remind us of the struggle faced by leaders of the Black Panther Party, the Black Power Movement, and all other political movements. We must recognize that incarceration was, and still is, a tool used by governments to silence dissenters. This is our reminder.

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Rebel, Resist, Revolt. It’s necessary. 📷 @he

Rebel, Resist, Revolt. It’s necessary.

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Rebel, Resist, Revolt. It’s necessary. 📷 @he

Rebel, Resist, Revolt. It’s necessary.

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We participated in @cogrid19 is a series of risogr

We participated in @cogrid19 is a series of risograph prints created to raise money for those most affected by the pandemic. The project brings together 19 artists from a city, each contributing to a shared grid representing their time in quarantine. The collected works are a commentary on the public health crisis and the racial, political and environmental issues that have overtaken the year 2020. Every penny raised will be donated to worthy organizations leading the efforts to help those in need.

The completed grids are 3 color 11x17 Risograph Prints that sell for $19, with every cent raised from our grid going to #RestoreNorth benefitting North Minneapolis small business impacted by the pandemic and the recent uprising.

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Our Creative Director, @projectnaptural participat

Our Creative Director, @projectnaptural participated in the @cogrid19 project. We want to shoutout all the amazing designers whose dedication and artistry created this amazing Risograph Print. Purchase yours at cogrid19.com.

COGRID-19 is a series of risograph prints created to raise money for those most affected by the pandemic. The project brings together 19 artists from a city, each contributing to a shared grid representing their time in quarantine. The collected works are a commentary on the public health crisis and the racial, political and environmental issues that have overtaken the year 2020. Every penny raised will be donated to worthy organizations leading the efforts to help those in need.

The completed grids are 3 color 11x17 Risograph Prints that sell for $19, with every cent raised from our grid going to #RestoreNorth benefitting North Minneapolis small business impacted by the pandemic and the recent uprising.

Our Creative Director, @projectnaptural participat

Our Creative Director, @projectnaptural participated in the @cogrid19 project. Each, of the 19 designers, were prompted to create “some representation of how you are feeling or a message you’d like to send right now.” In staying true to our values, abolition was top of mind.

COGRID-19 is a series of risograph prints created to raise money for those most affected by the pandemic. The project brings together 19 artists from a city, each contributing to a shared grid representing their time in quarantine. The collected works are a commentary on the public health crisis and the racial, political and environmental issues that have overtaken the year 2020. Every penny raised will be donated to worthy organizations leading the efforts to help those in need.

The completed grids are 3 color 11x17 Risograph Prints that sell for $19, with every cent raised from our grid going to #RestoreNorth benefitting North Minneapolis small business impacted by the pandemic and the recent uprising.

The Umbra exhibition centers on the intersectional

The Umbra exhibition centers on the intersectional experiences of Black womxn. Each piece delves into six themes which Terresa Moses has identified as gaze, control, savior, (d)anger, burden, and liberation. More at umbraexhibit.com.

This post features “IDK, TBH,” the second piece in the sixth theme of liberation. It also features the twelfth line of the featured poem that runs throughout the show: “All of it”

Video Transcript from the Artist: I’m doing a lot of work trying to understand freedom and liberation for Black women. What does it mean to truly belong in a space? When would freedom actually exist for Black women. Is liberation even something we can experience if we can’t even imagine it? I don’t know. I don’t know what is fully representative of peace, fulfilment, and self-care.

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The Umbra exhibition centers on the intersectional

The Umbra exhibition centers on the intersectional experiences of Black womxn. Each piece delves into six themes which Terresa Moses has identified as gaze, control, savior, (d)anger, burden, and liberation. More at umbraexhibit.com.

This post features “Freedom, Finally,” the first piece in the sixth theme of liberation. It also features the eleventh line of the featured poem that runs throughout the show: “Free from the bullsh*t”

Video Transcript from the Artist: I think the world would be such a better place if folkd just followed Black women. When I think about freedom, I thought about being my full self, naked and free. And if folks could just follow the beautiful leadership that Black women embody, I know we could get there. If Black women had the resources and support we needed, I know that we could remove the fog in front of a truly liberated future.

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The Umbra exhibition centers on the intersectional

The Umbra exhibition centers on the intersectional experiences of Black womxn. Each piece delves into six themes which Terresa Moses has identified as gaze, control, savior, (d)anger, burden, and liberation. More at umbraexhibit.com.

This post features “Impossible,” the second piece in the fifth theme of burden. It also features the tenth line of the featured poem that runs throughout the show: “To create a future where I exist”

Video Transcript from the Artist: With “Impossible” I wanted to show the hand Black women have been dealt. The impossibility of winning or conquering the oppression we face. In one hand this Black woman is holding up this broken system, using what she can to keep it together while cracks of this broken system run throughout. In the other hand (and foot), she is using a paint brush to create a new world where Black women can live free. This juxtaposition is the contradiction, it is how society expects us to work toward liberation and it is impossible.

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The Umbra exhibition centers on the intersectional

The Umbra exhibition centers on the intersectional experiences of Black womxn. Each piece delves into six themes which Terresa Moses has identified as gaze, control, savior, (d)anger, burden, and liberation. More at umbraexhibit.com.

This post features “To the Marrow,” the first piece in the fifth theme of burden. It also features the eighth line of the featured poem that runs throughout the show: “Fighting to the bone”

Video Transcript from the Artist: Black women are the most hard-working individuals. We not only carry our own historic trauma, but we carry it for our families, for the movement– all while holding down 2-3 jobs, raising children, and being at the front lines of protests. If it weren’t for the Black women in my life telling me to rest, I’d look exactly like this illustration “To the Marrow.” I often feel like this, like I have nothing left to fight with, like even after all my flesh has withered away, all the muscle and fat has disintegrated, I will still find it in me to fight with the bone and marrow I have left.

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The Umbra exhibition centers on the intersectional

The Umbra exhibition centers on the intersectional experiences of Black womxn. Each piece delves into six themes which Terresa Moses has identified as gaze, control, savior, (d)anger, burden, and liberation. More at umbraexhibit.com.

This post features “Don’t Tell Me to Calm Down,” the second piece in the fourth theme of (d)Anger. It also features the seventh line of the featured poem that runs throughout the show: “Wondering why I’m so mad”

Video Transcript from the Artist: I loved creating this piece. It’s like I asked myself “what imagery can I embody that people will know exactly how I feel when looking at it.” The idea that Black women shouldn’t be angry or aren’t entitled to our anger is a lie of white supremacy. It is a way for whiteness to cover up the harm they have perpetuated on whole communities of people and have never answered for those crimes. Instead, whiteness continues to profit off the free labor and work of Black women both historic and present day. And you don’t think I should be angry?

#UmbraArtShow #UmbraExhibition #BlackWomxnDeserveJoy

The Umbra exhibition centers on the intersectional

The Umbra exhibition centers on the intersectional experiences of Black womxn. Each piece delves into six themes which Terresa Moses has identified as gaze, control, savior, (d)anger, burden, and liberation. More at umbraexhibit.com.

This post features “Trigger Warning,” the first piece in the fourth theme of (d)Anger. It also features the sixth line of the featured poem that runs throughout the show: “Pulling the pin to my trauma”

Video Transcript from the Artist: “Trigger Warning” was the first piece I illustrated for Umbra. It was a reaction to being born with trauma, birthing trauma, and the traumatic often fatal experience of birth at the hands of white doctors who don’t believe Black women. Black women carry historic trauma through generations and we’re never allowed a chance to heal. An important part of this piece is that no white person ever wants to admit they are the one pulling the pin on our trauma, but when you do nothing to protect or liberate Black women, you are.

#UmbraArtShow #UmbraExhibition #BlackWomxnDeserveJoy

The Umbra exhibition centers on the intersectional

The Umbra exhibition centers on the intersectional experiences of Black womxn. Each piece delves into six themes which Terresa Moses has identified as gaze, control, savior, (d)anger, burden, and liberation. More at umbraexhibit.com.

This post features “I’m Not Sorry For My Blackness,” the second piece in the third theme of savior. It also features the sixth line of the featured poem that runs throughout the show: “Submerging me in your guilt”

Video Transcript from the Artist: I’ve been in so many spaces where I feel like I have to apologize for my Blackness. Since birth, Black women have been socialized to make ourselves smaller for the comfort of non-Black people and mainly White women. I illustrated this piece as a reminder that white tears are a weight we’re forced to carry and if we do not carry them, we will drown in them. White tears are violent to our very beings, so grab some tissue white women and stop expecting Black women to wipe up your guilt and shame.

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