Summer Begins our Collector's Roundup, Expand your collection. Visit Our Artsy Viewing Rooms and Read our Newsletter Today
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Calabar Gallery represents underserved artists locally and globally: African, African American and Caribbean artists, with the mission of providing a place for community, exhibition, creative initiatives and projects. It provides a venue for them to innovate, sustain, grow and expand ideas, concepts, projects and leverage opportunities by the use of our space, networks and relationships, and a distinctive location in Harlem New York City. Please follow us here Instagram page and Calabar GallerySUBSCRIBE TO THIS NEWSLETTER: SIGN UP
Our summer edition will pivot to a focus on Collecting Art with an edition called COLLECTORS ROUNDUP. Some of you got an email yesterday as a preview. In this newsletter from today until September, you will receive news on what we have sold and what we recommend you collect.
We continue to work on our Arts Residency and this is FANTASTIC NEWS. We will like to raise about $10,000 this week and would love it if you can purchase a piece from us this weekend. It's a win win: Artists get sales, you get a piece of art and we use our art commissions for the residency. We like to invite you to visit our viewing rooms on Artsy to purchase a piece today: https://www.artsy.net/partner/calabar-gallery/viewing-rooms. You can also buy art this weekend at our website: http://www.calabargallery.com/buy-art. Purchasing in either location will be considered as a sponsorship.
About our Art Residency: Calabar Gallery Art Residency is a Social Justice Residency for emerging and mid-career Black Artists globally who are working using unconventional ideas, materials, subject matter and doing some research based work. This residency is focused on the creation of new, original, and/or experimental projects that is socially and politically engaging and concludes with several exhibitions. Thank you for contributing to the arts and to our mission of an Arts Residency program.
If you are in New York this summer - please come visit us, I would love to see you. Our gallery features the work of Black artists, so please reach out to assist us do more to increase the profile of these artists. Black Artists need places like us and you can help us grow and strive. Buying art is one way to do so, but more ways include advocating for us, sharing us with others and telling us about other opportunities. Until next newsletter -please do something to change your part of the world.
If you are a beginning collector, I urge you to collect the work of these 8 artists this week. Over the next few months, we will begin to increase their prices as they are all completing new work. Since July 2020 when we reopened, we have worked to grow artists and collections in our own special way.
We will be asking some of our collectors to say why they bought a piece and may include their names with permission, of course
In June, we are happy to say 3 artists: Kriston Banfield, Inyang Essien and Winfred Nana Amoah - who we have focused on got sales to beginning collectors and established collectors. Trinidadian artist Kriston Banfield faired well this month with several pieces purchased by an established collector in New Orleans and a local beginning collector in Brooklyn. Nigerian-American Inyang Essien's photographs continues her streak of sales with us from last month with 4 pieces going into a collection in Los Angeles and a 5th going to a Canadian collector who made it a gift to another family member. Ghanaian Winfred Nana Amoah's portraits continue to sell well. To buy more work from from us, send an email info@calabargallery.com. see their work on our website at www.calabargallery.com/buy-art and also https://www.artsy.net/partner/calabar-gallery
This July, we will have a significant article on Alexandre Kyungu Mwilambwe. He is another artist we seriously recommend that you collect.
Over the last 6 years, we have sold the work of Amaoko Boafo (as part of an auction for $11k), he is now selling for over $1 million at auctions, Mario Joyce (at $3000 at Prizm), he is now selling for $25k and more) and so many others. Our gallery introduces and incubates emerging artists at the start of their careers and works with them by placing them in exhibitions auctions and art fairs so they garner attention.
We have grown the careers of these artists for a period of time and they head out to become artists in major collections. We believe that we are an inception place for emerging artists to start their art journey and we also work to revive the careers of mid-career artists. We see curators and other galleries scrambling to "grab" artists we introduce and work with...it is a compliment to the work done by our gallery. It speaks volumes. And we will continue to work the way we do to get the best from artists we select to work with.
I love to hear from you today about what work you would like from these artists and you can call me or text me to say you would like to reserve a piece or more to buy.
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The Weusi Artist Collective: Black Joy and Resilience at Calabar Gallery is a group exhibition that spotlights the work of some of the members of the collaborative artists’ group founded during the Black Arts Movement (1965 - 1975). Curated by Atim Annette Oton, this exhibit features twenty-eight (28) works from eleven (11) of the collective’s current members: Deborah Singletary, Dindga McCannon, Ed Sherman, Jesse Henry, Jimmy James Greene, Ken Wright, MLJ Johnson, Otto Neals, Robert Daniels, Stanwyck Cromwell, and Taiwo Duvall. Each artist, in their unique artistic authenticity, visually expresses the Black form; explores deep stories of spirituality; highlights the interconnected culture shared between African and African Diaspora people; and creatively expands on the identity of Black culture.
1. HARLEM BREW FEST
On November 12,we join Harlem Brewing Company as Art Gallery Partner with for the Harlem Brew Fest, the first festival in the world to connect all brewers, artists, chefs and DJs in celebration of Black Brewing culture and featured: Sankofa Beer, Black Frog Brewery, Island to Island Beer, 1947 Beer, Harlem Brewing and Rams & Parrot Distillery. This year, we will select 30 BIPOC artists to work with Beer Bands to create labels for their bottles. https://harlembrewfest.com/
2. HARLEM ARTS STROLL
It's about Harlem from 110th to 155th Streets with its galleries and businesses welcoming you. Come see our gallery and others at the HARLEM ARTS STROLL. You can also support Harlem Arts Stroll by making a donation at: https://fundraising.fracturedatlas.org/harlem-arts-stroll
This section is our way of previewing new work on our website, generally 5-10 pieces at a time. If you are interested in purchasing any of these works, please email us immediately at info@calabargallery.com
Rosy Petri is a mother, self-taught artist, and storyteller from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Her multidisciplinary works fuse fabric portraiture, multimedia storytelling, and illustration as an act of witness. In 2021, Petri served as the inaugural Artist in Residence at the bell hooks center at Berea College. In 2020, she was selected as a Mary L Nohl Emerging Artist Fellow and a Mildred L. Harpole Artist of the Year from the City of Milwaukee Arts Board. In 2019, as the 11th Pfister Artist in Residence, Petri created a space to celebrate creative traditions of the African diaspora. Petri was a Milwaukee Artist Resource Network mentee under artist Della Wells. Petri’s work can be viewed in several prestigious collections, including the bell hooks Center at Berea College, the Pfister Hotel, Northwestern Mutual’s Giving Gallery, African American Chamber of Commerce of Wisconsin and the Milwaukee County Courthouse.
If you are interested in purchasing any of these works, please email us immediately at info@calabargallery.com
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I think it's time I get back to running collecting workshops and programs. Several newbies have asked and others are looking to book me for one-on-one sessions. The word rates came up, so it's time I say, yes; I will begin to take in clients who want to spend an hour talking with me about developing a collection strategy abd what artists to buy. I am clear that it will focus around the 100 or do artists we have worked wuth abd are working with. Interested in learning about collecting, it's simple: email me info@calabargallery.com
I bought a set of prints last week. It's been a whole since I have done so...I am big on originals. I bought them on sale and want to look at the artist's work more to see if I will buy an original. I dint di this often but when I do, it's because I have missed collecting the original or want to wait for new pieces as the existing ones don't grab me.
What prints do yyou buy only and when will you buy the original?
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