...Edward S. Spriggs This essay documents how Edward S. Spriggs, early director of the Studio Museum in Harlem, built the museum’s artist-in-residence program with the idea of engaging the community by providing studios to artists in need of space and by creating a printmaking workshop. The essay also...

...Olu Oguibe Copyright © 1998 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 1998 Studio Call [journal of Con temporary African Art Nari Ward...

... in STUDIOTRANSIT Paris, these objects had to undergo massive controls including laser scanning before their eventual release to their owner. The second part of Toguo's Migrateurs project is a transgressive In Transit 2, the artist is arrested at Orly airport due to his studio...

...Chika Okeke-Agulu In February 2020, the author spent a day with Penny Siopis in her studio at the Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town, to discuss the artist’s new ink and wood-glue paintings, which she adopted in 2008 as her primary painting medium. This new direction is quite...

...Chika Okeke-Agulu [email protected] © 2023 by Nka Publications 2023 108 Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art 52 May 2023 DOI 10.1215/10757163-10435050 © 2023 by Nka Publications STUDIO CALL WANGECHI MUTU Chika Okeke-Agulu Wangechi Mutu, View of Artist Studio, 2022...

...Chika Okeke-Agulu [email protected] © 2024 by Nka Publications 2024 STUDIO CALL MIKHAEL SUBOTZKY View of Mikhael Subotzky s studio, Maboneng, Johannesburg, South Africa, 2023. Photo: Chika Okeke-Agulu 102 Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art 54 May 2024 DOI 10.1215...

...Chika Okeke Copyright © 2002 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2002 STUDIO CALL Charles H. Nelson Jr. Keeping it REAL...

... construction site. Unit 7 Studios, like a few other such colonies them liminally close to design. Besides, she works with paper cutouts. She across London, harbors an assortment of struggling as well as draws them, carefully traces them out, then she goes...

... on the pulse of contemporary art, and she has been instrumental in the success of several emerging artists of color. Her previous Studio...

..., and pigment construction. Collection of California African American Foundation. Courtesy California African-­ American Museum Journal of Contemporary African Art • 29 • Fall 2011 32 • Nka DOI 10.1215/10757163-1496318  © 2012 by k’a Yelema Productions Studios...

...- viewer’s nursery-school impressions into an em - vivant No Place (pre)Constructed at The Studio barrassing realization that one is now a peeping Museum in Harlem in 2008, the viewer could...

...) Benjamin Tiven is an artist and writer in New York. In 2012, he completed the Whitney Museum’s Independent Study Program in studio art and has recently contributed...

... which “you don’t In 2001 Harris participated in the group exhi- really walk. You feel like you’re floating.” The art- bition White Hot at Smack Mellon Studios. She ist’s Mylar-­and-­light installations, for which she is covered an existing series of shallow steps, or brick widely known...

...) Benjamin Tiven is an artist and writer in New York. In 2012, he completed the Whitney Museum’s Independent Study Program in studio art and has recently contributed...

... was papillons peuvent déclencher des tornades au tour born in Haiti and established his Berlin, Germany, du monde and Secretum (I am very much in love studio practice in 2002. Désert Nka • 209 ...

...- artists from the metropolitan area, stages the First munity artists. Annual Out-Door Art Show on 7th Avenue from Abdullah Aziz and Ademola Olugebefola move 127th Street to 135th Street in August, as well as exhi- to Harlem and open studios in the same building on bitions in and around Harlem...

... of the Bronx Museum of the Arts. More recently, Jeff Konigsberg, Michael's studio mate at Michael's life-size figurative sculptures set readymades the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council's World Trade of ancient and modern mythologies within a contempo• Center Studio Program...

..., a contributor to this the Studio Museum in Harlem and is currently associ- issue. It implies appreciable music (as compared to less apprecia- ate professor in visual and critical studies and liberal ble music) produced by musicians and artists of African descent. arts at the School of the Art Institute...

...Peter Erickson This essay explores Kerry James Marshall’s paintings of black artists in studio settings who are often positioned at the easel with an unfinished self-portrait. The series begins with a portrait within a portrait of a historical figure— Scipio Moorehead, Portrait of Himself, 1776...

...Renée Mussai Born in 1929 in Accra, then the Gold Coast colony, James Barnor began his career in photography typically, as an apprentice in a colonial portrait studio of a relative, his cousin J. P. Dodoo. But in a unique career spanning more than six decades, bridging continents and photographic...