BLACK Futures In Art

This is it, let talk : Wednesday march 18th -5pm Dairy Art Center 2590 Walnut st Boulder Co.

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Artist Talk - Tonight in NoBo!

Don’t miss the closing reception of Black Futures in Art: Excellence Beneath My Feet Lives Within My Bones at the NoBo Bus Stop Gallery.

Join Joseph Graves Jr and Kev J. Art for a conversation about process, perspective, and the vision behind BLACK Futures In Art .

🗓 Friday, February 27 | 6–9pm
🎤 Artist Conversation: 7–8pm
📍 NoBo Bus Stop Gallery | 4895 Broadway

The gallery opens at 3pm — come by early, spend time with the work, and settle in. Artists will arrive around 5pm to connect with the community and share more about the exhibition. Snacks and beverages provided.

Curated by Adderly Grant-Lord

 In this work, 13-year-old Milo invites us beyond the surface and into the interior — into the place where truth lives. As I stood with this piece, I felt a quiet challenge: go to the core, examine yourself, and be honest about what you find. That is the power of young vision — it doesn’t decorate, it reveals.

At NoBo Gallery, we are honored to present the work of Kevin Johnson and Joseph H. Graves Jr.

Kevin’s work emerges from a life of military service — steady, disciplined, grounded in duty.

Joseph stands at the intersection of cowboy and classroom. His art honors the legacy of Black cowboys — riders and builders of the West whose stories deserve light — while his work as an educator ensures those stories continue forward.

This is an exhibition about history, responsibility, and the beauty of lives lived with purpose.

THIS IS IT. OPENING NIGHT

Talk about it, excellence

The museum opened its doors to her historic art, not to her 🖼️💐Here is the story on Clementine Hunter and Zinnias! —- In a nation that is slowly stripping communities of culture and history, the best revolution is to KNOW it. To REMEMBER it. To HONOR it. “Knowledge is indeed power and the more you know the more, the less wool they can pull over your eyes” @theauthoritybrand —— For any incoming “You should just stick to plants” comments: Your refusal to stay uninformed and ignorant has no space here. I’m committed to the truth spreading knowledge through what I know best. Plants. My page has always been, and will always be, about honoring both the history & culture behind plants and the black and brown folks that made impacts in such a white washed field. #plantmom #plantlover #planthistory

LET TALK ABOUT YOUR INHERITANCE OF EXCELLENCE.

Inside the spiral script of us,
coiled tight in quiet code,
lives a memory older than doubt—
a knowing that builds,
that imagines,
that refuses smallness.

Even when pressure presses hard,
even when voices try to rename us
into something lesser,
excellence does not forget its way home.

It rises—
in the hands that design tomorrow,
in the minds that bend problems into possibility,
in the hearts that dream in colors
no erasure can dull.

We are the echo of first creators,
the spark that studies the dark
and still invents light.

Suppress it, bury it,
write laws against it—
excellence is stubborn like breath.

It will surface.
It will speak.
It will build worlds again
through us.

WHAT GOING ON?

These paintings are not responses. They do not explain or defend. They stand in alignment, shaped by a life lived in truth rather than approval. Excellence appears not as achievement, but as presence — steady, embodied, and whole.

Rooted in five years of Black Future in Art across Boulder County, this solo exhibition turns inward, returning to the artist’s source. What remains is clarity: a practice guided by knowing rather than fear.