Amplifying
Black artists & Womanist artistic leadership
Elevating
Black Art
Black Space
Black Life
WE ARE EMBERS
The Embers Lab is a Black artist-led social arts practice think-tank and incubator of artistic projects.
The Embers Lab exists for the cultivation of artistic knowledge systems that are at work throughout the African diaspora,
by way of artistic engagement.
As a socially engaged arts think tank, the purpose of The Embers Lab exists for Black artists to generate directives to strengthen our presence in the arts, unencumbered by colonial labour. It is a purposefully Womanist space to develop nurturing creation methodologies that we can reiterate wherever and whenever we create.
Art beyond the….
gallery
studio
theatre
As art so often illuminates nuances of social and systemic dynamics, we seek opportunities for artists with a social practice to collaborate on interdisciplinary projects, for transdisciplinary contexts.
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Create
Holding and affirming safe spaces for creative exploration and
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Engage
Exploring convergences of art, creativity, and social practices of Black life in the African diaspora.
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Share
Developing emergent anti-colonial methodologies with other arts practitioners, and collaborators.
The Embers Lab is a Womanist space that supports Black multidisciplinary artist/scholars and interdisciplinary social practitioners committed to approaching all of their work as creative practices, and making scholarship part of creative practice. At the heart of this work is removing barriers for using art to uplift community and creating art in ways that affirm the diversity of Black lives.
“We realize that the only people who care enough about us to work consistently for our liberation are us. Our politics evolve from a healthy love for ourselves, our sisters, and our community which allows us to continue our struggle and work.”
— Combahee River Collective