Art & Music as Identity

Gregory dives into the Black arts movement in Chicago in the 60’s and 70’s and how it shaped the Black identity and birthed a new age in music and art.

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Resources and Links

BOOKS

  • The Promised Land : The Great Black Migration…  by Nicholas Lemann (1991)

  • The Souls of Black Folks     by W.E.B. Du Bois (1903)

  • The Freedom Principle : Experiments in Art and Music 1965 to Now  by Naomi Beckwith and Dieter Roelstraete (2015)


VIDEOS

Many videos on YouTube on:

  • Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM)

  • African Commune of Bad Revelant Artists (AfriCOBRA)

About the Teacher

Waits Studio Works employs a multimedia practice interconnecting Architecture, Art, Fashion, and the Environment to create performance objects and spaces.

The studio aligns with design strategies that enhance and engage a dialogue of private and public space within the social fabric. Patterns of movement in our daily life rituals are investigated from an interdisciplinary perspective, creating a cross-pollination that produces deeper meaning in the design of objects and spaces.

How these patterns might proceed to develop more sustainable architecture, art products, and lifestyles and how these patterns are markings of a historical process lend integrity to the development of broader, more cooperative places for the individual and community.