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2019 EVENT GUIDE PROGRAM SEASON HIGHLIGHTS 6 NEXT SALON 10 OUTDOOR MUSEUM 14 FINE ART + FASHION 16 FASHION FORWARD 18 MOVE/DANCE! 22 NextGen ARTIST 26 NBAF 2020 GALA

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FROM OUR DIRECTOR Dear NBAF Friends and Patrons, Fresh off the heels of our 30th anniversary year, our Board and staff embarked upon an exciting strategic planning process to ensure that we continuously focus on building a world where the contributions of artists of African descent are celebrated, integrated and elevated in every form.

As most of you know, NBAF has worked for several years to become known as more than a festival. Thanks to all of you for your encouragement for our transformation from a summer festival into a more sustainable, year-round arts organization. Over the past year, we’ve worked to cultivate year-round programming that impacts the future through youth education, supports emerging artists and provides festival-like arts programs for the public at various times and locations throughout the year. And we have already enjoyed great success by eliminating the barriers to exposure that were imposed by a defined season.

These efforts further our mission to expose, educate, engage and entertain audiences as we present and support art and artists of African descent, while broadening cultural experiences for all. Our mission and our arts disciplines are the same, just no longer bound by time.

To reflect the success of these efforts, we have started to refer to ourselves as the National Black Arts. We’re keeping the acronym NBAF because it has become a familiar and cherished brand across many communities and for many years. It also serves as a reminder, as we work every day to further the mission of the National Black Arts — we will Find it. We will Fund it. We will Feature it. And we will Fight for it. All with your continued support and patronage.

With your help, guidance and vital support, the stage is set for NBAF to thrive for generations to come. We depend on YOU! Artfully yours, Vikki Millender Morrow President & CEO www.nbaf.org

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NEXT SALON EVENT NEXT Salon Event September 13, 2019 Location: Spoke ATL, 1450 LaFrance St., Atlanta, GA 30307 NBAF is proud to sponsor, NEXT - The Salon, a performance featuring some of the most popular visual, literary and musical artists that Atlanta has to offer in Fall 2019. Curated by Co-Founder and Executive Director of NEXT, Faith Carmichael, this interactive experience seeks to use creative expression to identify solutions to society’s challenges, while supporting collaboration between artists and the audience. NEXT is the brainchild of a group of Atlanta artists and activists who seek to launch a movement that galvanizes members of the city’s creative class into a potent force for change. In

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Faith Carmichael NEXT Executive Director and Founder

partnership with the National Black Arts, NEXT is excited to host this salon and a documentary series showcasing the hottest and brightest stars of the city.

Carlos Andrés Gómez Carlos Andrés Gómez is a Colombian American poet, speaker, actor, and author of Hijito, winner of the Broken River Prize,

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NEXT SALON ARTISTS NEXT 2014 Artists and Legend

and the memoir Man Up: Reimagining Modern Manhood, released by Penguin Random House. A star of HBO’s Def Poetry Jam, TV One’s Verses and Flow, and Spike Lee’s #1 box office movie Inside Man with Denzel Washington, you may recognize him from his viral poems, “Where are you really from?” and “What Latino Looks Like,” which have garnered millions of views online. Winner of the Atlanta Review International Poetry Prize, Fischer National Poetry Prize, Lucille Clifton Poetry Prize. He’s a proud Latinx and father. https://carloslive.com

were my native ones, I realized that the cello was the oldest, the most central and the most sacred part of me,” says OkCello.

“I resolved never, ever, to deny it again.” He is a recipient of the Alliance Theatre’s 2018 Reiser Atlanta Artists Lab grant. https://www.okcello.com

Okorie Johnson OkCello has balanced musical pursuits — which include performing and recording with major label artists such as De La Soul, India.Arie and Big Boi — with a career as an educator. In 2015, he launched “Epi. phony,” a multi-city, 12-show, concert series which produced the track list for Liminal.

“After years of putting my cello down and picking it back up, after years of deciding that the cello wasn’t financially practical, after years of thinking that my other voices

Angela Davis Johnson Angela Davis Johnson, informed by the wisdom of the matriarchs in her family, creates paintings, sculptures, installations, and ritual performances to examine and archive the technologies of black folks.

Merging art into a contemplative practice she embodies Live Dreaming — a process of deep listening, imagining, constructing, and recording personal + community ancestry.

She generates experiential spaces to bring personal and communal healing around poverty, displacement, and state sanctioned violence. Co-creator of the Hollerin Space, an ongoing experimental healing installation, Davis Johnson has performed in several states in the regional south. Her works can be seen in galleries, museums, and private collections throughout the United States. https://www.angeladavisjohnson.com

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OUTDOOR MUSEUM Images of America: Atlanta and the Civil Rights Movement, 1944-1968 “Outdoor Museum” August 2019 – May 2020 Freedom Park (Moreland Ave, NE and North Avenue, NE, Atlanta, GA 30308) & Woodruff Park (91 Peachtree St., NW, Atlanta, GA 30303) Outdoor Museum — Civil and Human Rights Exhibit — Dr. Karcheik SimsAlvarado, Ph.D. In 2017, Karcheik SimsAlvarado, Ph.D., published Images of America: Atlanta and the Civil Rights Movement, 19441968 (Arcadia), “a portable exhibition” that offers a pictorial history of the Modern Civil Rights

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Dr. Karcheik Sims-Alvarado

Movement in Atlanta, Georgia.

The images, curated from photographs taken mostly by award-winning Associated Press photojournalists, demonstrates the long history of activism in Atlanta as well as celebrates the fortitude of Atlantans in their quest for freedom. From testing the US Supreme Court landmark decision in Smith v. Alright to mourning the death of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., this exhibition, Atlanta and the Civil Rights Movement, 1944-1968, helps residents, tourists, and Freedom Park Trail visitors understand more fully how Atlanta came to be recognized as the “epicenter of the Civil Rights Movement.”

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OUTDOOR MUSEUM

Presented on the Atlanta Beltline Trails across 4 miles since 2018, this “outdoor museum,” as it has come to be called, is celebrated as the longest running public exhibition on civil and human rights in the world. It has been viewed by nearly 2 million visitors.

NBAF has partnered with Dr. SimsAlvarado to make this outdoor photographic exhibit accessible to more citizens of Fulton County. The photographs from the exhibit will be moved from the Atlanta Beltline and installed at Woodruff Park (Downtown Atlanta) and Freedom Park (near The Carter Center) starting August 1, 2019 for nine months. Please visit these parks to experience an amazing outdoor museum showcasing our history of civil and human rights. www.nbaf.org

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FINE ART + FASHION

Fine Art + Fashion March 26, 2020 – 6 p.m.

students who are emerging talents in fashion design and visual artists. Fine Art + Fashion is truly a spectacular evening of fun, fashion, and art but its impact extends far beyond the event and the evening.

Flourish Atlanta, 3143 Maple Dr., NE, Atlanta, GA 30305 Fine Art + Fashion is one of Atlanta’s premier benefit engagements sponsored by Neiman Marcus. This event raises unrestricted funds to support NBAF’s operations and stellar programs for artists of all ages and at all stages of their development and our in-school arts education and youth development and engagement programs for disadvantaged children.

The partnership with our lead sponsor Neiman Marcus offers NBAF a unique opportunity to expand our audiences by bringing together lovers of art and fashion with scholarship and award recipients of African descent, among them Georgia www.nbaf.org

Jocelyn Hunter, Brandon Zayden Skipper, Lakia Davis, Jademan Baker, Vikki Millender Morrow

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FASHION FORWARD Fashion Forward Student Design Competition March 2020 Fashion Forward is a competition for emerging fashion design students. The awards were established in 2010 to recognize student fashion designers of African descent who have distinguished themselves for their academic achievement, talent, creativity, cutting edge and innovative approach. Each award recipient is selected for having excelled academically, mastered their field of study and having been recognized by their peers, their school and the Fine Art + Fashion judges as an emerging talent on the rise. Along with a cash award, their winning design is exhibited in the Neiman Marcus windows and they receive special recognition at the Fine Art + Fashion event.

Brandon Zayden Skipper

Lakia Davis www.nbaf.org

Jademan Baker

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MOVE/DANCE! PROGRAM Students from Sylvan Middle School

Program Description: The Move/Dance!

Program was established by NBAF as part of its new Adopt-A-School arts education initiative. It brings much needed arts education and physical education back into local Atlanta middle schools. Move/Dance! is an interventionist project because of the focus on improving the health and wellness of the

that have paved the way. The project also encourages the students to improve their communication and presentation skills in preparation for the public dance competition.

Students from Sylvan Middle School

The project encourages and nurtures the talent and the aspirations of middle school students while supporting the school, parents and guardians with their academic as well as their health and wellness goals.

Through the Move/Dance! Program NBAF marries the creative arts with the goal of addressing prevalent health issues such

students, and by extension their families, through fun dance lessons that support King Middle School Faculty, Kenny Leon, Nicole Davis, Vikki Millender-Morrow movement and exercise. The project also promotes educational enrichment and learning.

The classroom experience is augmented with journal writing and research about the rich history of Black dance and about the dancers, choreographers and dance companies www.nbaf.org

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MOVE/DANCE! PROGRAM Students from King Middle School

as hypertension, diabetes, obesity and other conditions that plague our communities.

Curriculum: The program has four components: teaching artists who teach various dance forms from the 18th to the 21st centuries. They also teach classroom etiquette and act as mentors and role models. Their lessons are based on a new curriculum on Black dance developed by NBAF to match the Atlanta School system’s curriculum standards and goals. The project also includes a “Create a New Dance” competition that provides scholarships opportunities for students to choreograph their own dance and present it at the final dance performance.

Students from Sylvan Middle School

Students from Sylvan Middle School

Program Overview: In 2016, the pilot year of the Adopt-A-School arts education initiative, NBAF “adopted”

and partnered with APS because of its focus on arts education through its Connections Programs. APS middle schools also have a demographic that is well served by the program goals which provides participating students with the resources they need to aspire and to excel. It is a successful project because its focus on addressing the needs of the whole child — on supporting, nurturing, expanding and improving their creativity, talent, knowledge, academics and health.

Students from Sylvan Middle School

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NextGen ARTIST NextGen Artist Program

our partner schools. With this support the NextGen Artist program can provide resources and access to leaders in film/ media, visual arts, and fashion design for the students engaged in the program. The

Program Description: NextGen Artist is a youth arts education program of the National Black Arts that that aims to nurture the dreams, creativity and artist talents of high school students who are emerging artists of African descent.

The program provides a structured artistic experience with workshops, classes, lectures, mentoring, business and professional development, and opportunities for competitive scholarships.

This transformational experience is designed to support the goals of

NBAF NextGen Artist student Students from Mays High School

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NextGen ARTIST program goals include increased presentation skills (written and verbal), creating academic success, an appreciation for the arts, and pathways to higher education.

NBAF NextGen Artist student

Curriculum: Once a week (depending on the school’s schedule), participants will be offered instruction and exposure to art experiences through the NBAF NGA Teaching Artists in areas such as film/media, fashion and visual arts.

Graduation/Showcase: NextGen Artist exhibit will take place in the spring and feature, recognize and celebrate the talents of the students in film/media, fashion and/or visual arts.

The students may also have the opportunity to develop and refine, display and market their work.

Summer Immersion Program: A week long summer immersion program in arts and media programming on SCAD Atlanta campus. This program will be offered to the Rising Stars from the NextGen Artist program and given a scholarship to attend. Students are required to submit an application, provide the most recent copy of their report card and a recommendation from the school faculty that outlines their achievements, aspirations and career goals.

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Program Goals: Develop artistic interests and learn about pathways to success in: • FASHION • FILM/MEDIA • VISUAL ARTS • Refine and develop the presentation of their work • Develop and enhance writing and verbal communication skills • Promote academic success • Develop skills and experiences that contribute to applying for college • Demonstrate changes in behavior and leadership 24

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Americolor Opera presents

SING, MARIAN, SING a recital opera in tribute to Marian Anderson by Dr. Sharon J. Willis, Sun, Oct 6, 2019, 4:00 p.m.

Sister’s Chapel at Spelman College.

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by Sharon J. Willis, www.americoloropera.org for info.

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NBAF 2020 GALA NBAF Annual Gala August 29, 2020 Flourish Atlanta, 3143 Maple Dr., NE, Atlanta, GA 30305 The NBAF Annual Gala is the event of the Summer and features lively entertainment and great performances in addition to a silent auction of unique items presented in a spectacular venue. Hundreds of our supporters and funloving patrons come together to celebrate and to sustain NBAF’s operations, programs and rich cultural legacy. Top: 2019 NBAF Gala; Right: (bottom) Marci Overstreet, Mayor Keisha Bottoms, Camille Love, (top) City of Atlanta Staff; Below left: NBAF CEO & Board of Directors; Right: Johnita Due + guest, WarnerMedia, Bottom left: Steven Allen, featured Gala artist; Bottom right: Fulton County Staff + guests

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Carole Sykes Public Affairs Manager Fulton County Arts & Culture

Charmaine Ward-Millner, Board Chair Director, Corporate Relations Georgia Power Company

NBAF Staff

Lolita Browning Jackson, Board Vice Chair Founding Principal Director, Government Affairs 4 C’s Consulting LLC

Vikki Millender Morrow President & CEO, National Black Arts Evette Dorham, Office Manager/Program Season Coordinator Stephanie Owens, Director of Public Programs Nicole Davis, Director of Youth Programs Jessica Bertram, Assistant Director of Youth Programs Judy Hanenkrat, Special Events Consultant & Fundraising Patricia Harris, Grant Writer

Lisa Ray Griffin, Board Treasurer Sr. Vice President, Finance, WarnerMedia Danica Kombol, Board Secretary CEO, Everywhere Agency Suzanne E. Burks Chief Marketing Officer The Burks Companies, Inc.

NBAF Advisory Council

Michelle Falconer Owner, Bailey and Hunter

Sonya Halpern Past Board Chair NBAF Nancy Boxill, Ph.D. Past Board Chair NBAF Ingrid Saunders Jones Past Board Chair NBAF Lionell Thomas Director, Fulton County Arts & Culture Curley Dossman President, Georgia-Pacific Foundation and Past Board Chair NBAF Camille Love Executive Director Mayor’s Office of Cultural Affairs and Past Board Member Evern Cooper Epps Past Board Chair NBAF

Yvette Thomas-Henry RVP + General Manager, Four Seasons Hotel Atlanta Kateau James Managing Director, Leader, Office of the CIO Deloitte Tracey Lloyd District Manager, JC Penney Brian McDaniel President/Owner AlphaGraphics West-Midtown Candy Moore Senior Vice President, Southeast Community Development Manager-Region Community Relations Wells Fargo & Company www.nbaf.org

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NBAF 2019 DONORS

NBAF Donors as of May 30, 2019

$250,000

$5,000 - $9,999

$1,000 - $2,499

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Joe and Yolandra Alexander Annie E. Casey Foundation Ginny and Charles Brewer Jackmont Hospitality DLA Piper, LLC JP Morgan Private Bank Northwestern Mutual Malcolm D. Lee Teresa and Joesph Roseborough Wilmington Trust Investment Management LLC Faye Wilson Delta Community Credit Union

Helen Mitchell Dawne and Greg Worthy JaDawnya and Ajamu Baker Precious Anderson Veronica and Erwin Carter Carol and DePriest Waddy Dennis Dean Daphne Dickerson Vicki and Howard Palefsky Michelle Falconer Jason Frazier DAYO Women Ron and Rachel Frieson Judy Zaban Miller Jim Getzinger and Joel Desmarteau Nikki and Joseph Harland Angela Holloway Angela and Gary Johnson Melody and Charles Johnson Danita E. Joyner Kimberly and Dolan Falconer Marva and Pascal Lewis Su So Longman Kelly Loeffler Robin Lowman White LaKesha and Rick Robinson Keisha C. Noel Marcia and Al McKenna Catherine and Bruce Mitchell Lynne Scroggins and Chas Walker Lauren and David Kiefer Michael B. Russell Cheryl Taylor Wade Ford Lisa Wong CHANEL Farah Cook Lolita Browning Jackson

$50,000 - $150,000 UPS American Family Insurance Wells Fargo Bank of America Coca-Cola Neiman Marcus Bloomberg Philantropies Georgia Power Georgia Pacific Warner Media

$25,000 - $49,999 Kaiser Permanente City of Atlanta Chick-Fil-A

$15,000 - $24,999 Cynthia Moreland PNC Financial Services Group National Endowment for the Arts Southern Company Jocelyn Hunter Billye and Hank Aaron

$10,000 - $14,999 Lauren Amos – The Wish Foundation Georgia Council for the Arts Sabrina Shannon The Home Depot Four Seasons Hotel Atlanta 2019 NBAF Event Guide

$2,500 - $4,999 Arnika and Stephen Dawkins Sandra and Dan Baldwin Dr. Jennifer Christie Libertine John and Roz Brewer Cindy and Bill Voyles Tracey and Miguel Lloyd Kateau James Evern and Elze Epps Marsha and Ryan Glover Patrice and Earnest Greer Donna Northington Kemberly Joseph Vicki and John Palmer Arthur and Jay Richardson Kenneth and Akilah Saffold H. Jerome & Stephanie M. Russell Millie and Steve Smith Kevin and Kalinda Woods Sylvia and Keith Wright

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NBAF 2019 DONORS Copial Business Strategists, LLC Bernie L. Watkins Yvette Thomas Henry Tom and Michelle “Buttercup” Davis Brenda Wood Henry and Joanne Kelly Uyo Okebie-Eichelberger E. Fitzgerald Viera Cynthia Widner Wall Ursula Wiedmann Johanna W. Ellis Reisinger

Kim Jones Snipe Kimberly D. Manning Almetta Cooper Charlene Crusoe-Ingram Cedira Davis Nancy Flaherty Schnell Hart Lindsay Hopkins Ellice Hawkins Valerie Jackson Lisa Horne Warren Huntley Tarsha W. Calloway

$100 – $999

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Wonya Lucas Dr. Tiffany Rand Janet E. Taylor Leslie Thomas Federal Home Loan Bank of Atlanta Thomas W. Cole Erin BowmanAlicia Willard Essene BellMark Adams Michaeline Roland Stacey Ollinger Brenda and Thomas Cole Blythe Robinson Danielle Joyner James L. Anderson Theadore Mikell

Arts ATL The Atlantan Atlanta Journal-Constitution Atlanta ShowGuide Atlanta Tribune Magazine Jaro Jazz WCLK 91.9 Lloyd Media Group Northside/ Sandy Springs Neighbor PBA Radio One Sentinel Media Smooth Jazz WJZA 106.1 Southern Seasons

VENUE PARTNERS Emory University Flourish Atlanta Four Seasons Atlanta High Museum of Art Rialto Center for the Arts Southwest Arts Center Thank you to the following for their generous contributions, partnerships and services: Troy Lipscomb, Active Production and Design, Inc., Simon Sign Systems, Southern Seasons, TRRU Event Management, Weems Design Studio, MercedesBenz of Buckhead, Brenda Wood, The Atlantan, Double Cross Vodka, AREA, Atlanta Tribune, Rialto Center for the Arts, Sylvan Hills Middle, Sweet Auburn Works, Historic District Development Corporation, Central Atlanta Progress, National Park Service/MLK, Jr. Historic District, and the Four Season Hotel Atlanta

The NBAF celebrates the African diaspora by showcasing artists in six disciplines: literary arts, dance, music, film, theater and visual arts, and is the oldest organization of its kind in the United States focused on the arts and artists of African descent. The U.S. Congress honored it as a “national treasure” in 2008, and last year it received the Governor’s Award for the Arts and Humanities in Georgia. www.nbaf.org

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Neiman Marcus presents The Art of Fashion to benefit NBAF Thursday • March 26, 2020 6:00pm - 10:00pm • Flourish Atlanta Event Co-Chairs: Kimberly Paige, Stephanie Russell, Kimberly Blackwell For information and reservations: jhanenkrat@nbaf.org, 404.372.4572, nbaf.org

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Your donation ensures that NBAF continues to operate and provide world class programs for multigenerational and diverse local and national audiences. NBAF cultivates programming that impacts the future through youth education, supports emerging artists and provides festival like arts programs for the public throughout the calendar year. Every step forward furthers our mission to expose, educate, engage and entertain audiences as we present and support fine art and artists of African descent, while broadening cultural experiences for all.

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Contributions to NBAF ensure that the arts continue to reach deep into our communities to enrich and transform

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lives. With your support, NBAF will continue to provide world class programs that position us as an influential and essential cornerstone and sets the stage for the organization to thrive for generations to come! All donations are tax deductible to the extent allowed by law.

Ways to Give

Annual gifts have immediate benefits to NBAF and can be made in a variety of ways: Online: NBAF.org select Donate in the upper right menu Checks: To make a contribution, please send your check to: NBAF Peachtree Center, North Tower 235 Peachtree Street, Suite 1725 Atlanta, GA 30303 Or contact the Development Department at (404) 730-6369.

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