For The Love of Art Brochure

FOR THE LOVE OF ART A JUNETEENTH CELEBRATION OF JOY & JUSTICE

Saturday, June 19th & Sunday, June 20th @ Montclair Art Museum

Acknowledgements

Empower The Village would like to extend our sincere gratitude to the people and organizations that made this Juneteenth celebration possible:

Sponsors PLATINUM

GOLD

SILVER Contemporary Ladies Book Club BRONZE

Bonnie & Michael Carter Donna Lawson

Partners

African American Cultural Committee @ MAM Dodji Gbedemah, Owner @ Kente Royal Gallery Martin Little Catering Priceless Moments Photography The James Gibbs Band

Private Collection Art Donors Ayo Sanderson Wilson & Mark Wilson

Our Leadership Ayo Sanderson Wilson Founder & CEO

Cheryl Easley Executive Director

Board of Directors Paula Tuffin** Wanda Sims Sandye Taylor

Perri Richman Dara Anderson**

Advisory Council Nikki Sumpter Bonnie Carter ✝ Rhonda Crichlow** Terri Borden** Jennifer Bancroft Dasilva Tammye Tillman Jones

Kimberly Banks Mackay** Antoinette Rowe** Tracey Weaver Denelle Waynick ✝ Taynaya Lee

ETV Team Shannon Prevatt Alexandra Stennett Nina Slowinski Alyssa Ince

Nnenna Ezera Ethan Assefa Reginald Lawson Alina Smith

Village Ambassadors Kim Wentworth** Debra Sandler Donna Boles

Kendra Smith Williams Mirian Graddick-Weir

** Founder’s Circle Member ✝ Platinum Founder’s Circle Member ✝✝ Platinum Corporate Founder’s Circle

Program Of Events Welcome Cheryl Easley, Executive Director Empower The Village, Inc.

ETV Introduction & Acknowledgements Ayo Sanderson Wilson, Founder & CEO Empower The Village, Inc.

Sponsor & Partner Remarks Sponsor and partner remarks MAM African American Cultural Committee

Exhibit Highlights Dodji Gbedemah, Owner Kente Royal Gallery

Musical Performances by The James Gibbs Band Jazz for Prostate Cancer Awareness

Featured Artists Aleathia Brown Aleathia Brown is a native of both Harlem and The Bronx, NY. She graduated from Fiorello LaGuardia High School of Music & Art for Fine Art. She earned her B.F.A at the School of Visual Arts for Media Arts and Art Education with a minor in Graphic Design. Aleathia is a visual storyteller, using her artwork to document her cultural journey and visual voice as a woman-human-spiritual being. Aleathia is listed with The National Museum of Women in the Arts Archives and participated in the Works on Paper exhibition in East London. She also self-published her first unbound coloring book. Aleathia is a commissioned art direct and muralist, and contributed to 2020’s BLM mural in Harlem.

Anthony Boone Anthony Boone, a longtime freight train conductor, began his art career in 2005 after attending art shows and experiencing an organic connection to the creative process. Drawing further inspiration from his parents, Boone had an epiphany when his neighbor, art professor Max Adams, shared an insight which remains his mantra to this day: There are no rules in painting. Boone, a mixed media artist, sculptor and designer summarizes his process as follows: “I use all kinds of materials ranging from paint, wood, dirt, or whatever feels right. I layer them on and then I move the canvas, go away, and let everything gel naturally… What is ultimately there is a combination of me and the actual painting itself.”

Anthony Gartmond Anthony was born in Newark, NJ, raised in East Orange, and is a longtime resident of Lawrenceville, NJ. Anthony was a talented art student throughout his formative years in East Orange, but sidelined his passion for a 30-year career in law. He returned to art as a full-time endeavor in 2014 and has had a burgeoning art ever since. His graphite pencil art pieces have been featured at the gallery at WBGO Jazz 88.3, October Gallery, both in Philadelphia, as well as Astah’s Fine Art Gallery in Maplewood. Anthony has also exhibited his work at Art in the Atrium.

Featured Artists BAi Carl Karni-Bain, “BAi”, hails from San Francisco, CA. A celebrated artist with over 25 years of experience, BAi left the Bay-area and a career as an IT consultant in 2013 for New York City, to fulfill a lifelong dream of making art a full-time pursuit. His decision has paid off, as BAi is a highly respected abstract-expressionist whose work is exhibited and collected worldwide. He is recognized as one of the top 10 artists in Harlem, and among the top 50 in New York City. BAi has works on permanent display at the University of North Carolina in Charlotte, and Harrison Museum of African American Culture in Roanoke, VA.

Curtis Grayson B. Curtis Grayson, III, had the desire to be an artist at an early age.

Grayson has been blessed to realize his dream. He works with oils, acrylics, watercolors, collage and other mixed mediums. He uses bold, brilliant and bright hues, which display power and energy with each brush stroke. His paintings are filled with strong emotion and feeling.

Mr. Grayson currently is the A/P Studio Art Teacher at Columbia High School in S. Orange, NJ. His pieces have been acquired by countless noteworthy collectors, and have appeared in several feature films. He was recently commissioned for the McDonald’s 365 Black History poster to salute Black Media Legends.

Danielle Scott Danielle Scott is a mixed-media assemblage artist native to Jersey City, NJ. She graduated from Newark’s Arts High School where she received the “Congressional Arts Award.” Danielle holds a B.F.A. from the School of Visual Arts in New York, and studied under the late famous African American Artist, Jack Whitten. Danielle’s first oil painting was placed in the US Capitol for a year. From vivid paintings to piercing photography to striking sculptures, all of Danielle’s artistic offerings aim to arrest the viewer and transport them away from the pretentious and into a realm rooted in truth, as seen in her latest pieces that convey intense beauty and wretched pain.

Featured Artists Demarcus McGaughey Demarcus McGaughey, a Texas native, now New York-based mixed media artist, captures the beauty, strength, and vibrancy of people of color. He completed art residencies with Mas el sigols in Barcelona, Nfinit Foundation Arts Residency in Brooklyn, and Art Crawl Harlem in New York. Demarcus specializes in combining painting, photography, mixed media, and graphic design. This elixir of artistic elements stems from his fruitful stint in corporate advertising and graphic design, working for prestigious brands and organizations including Beyoncé and Dr. Pepper. Inspired by Barkley Hendricks, Demarcus portrays his people in a larger-than-life display. He continues to inform inspiring stories of Black triumph.

Earlene Hardie Cox Earlene Hardie Cox is a lawyer and former IBM executive. From 1996 until she retired in 2001, she headed the firm’s international tax group.

Since 2008, Earlene has advocated using clay art as therapy to combat Alzheimer’s. Through her affiliation with the Westchester (NY) County Chapter of The Links, Inc., she created a clay art program for Alzheimer’s and dementia patients at the Wartburg Nursing Home in Mount Vernon. NY, a program for which she received recognition by the Hudson Valley Chapter of the Alzheimer’s Association as an Alzheimer’s Champion. Earlene is a juried artist at the Clay Art Center in Port Chester (CAC), NY where she serves as a board director.

Gabrielle Baker A native New Yorker, Gabrielle’s interest in art began when, at age 10, she took her first still life watercolor class. Her talent grew as she progressed through Music and Art High School. However, inadequate support caused her interest to wane, eventually redirecting Gabrielle’s focus away from art and toward medicine. Her passion was reignited 30+ years later after her “dabbling” drew encouragement from art professionals. This time, she focused on metallurgy -the science and application of metals and their alloys -- and mineralogy after one of her early paintings sold. Now in her “element,” she embarked on a career as an abstract artist.

Featured Artists Jimmy James Greene Since his childhood in Xenia, OH, Jimmy James Greene has shown artistic ability. After apprenticing with acclaimed afro-centric muralist Jon Onye Lockard, Greene graduated from The Rhode Island School of Design. He has gone on to become an accomplished collagist, draftsman and designer who also works with stained glass, printmaking and mosaic tile. His work has explored the African diaspora in general, and those of the African-American experience in particular. Greene has executed over 30 one-person exhibitions and innumerable group showings. He also has theater posters, CD covers and many newspaper, magazine and book cover illustrations to his credit.

Kortez Kortez is a graduate of the Newark School of Fine and Industrial Arts. He credits his parents for nurturing his passion for art at an early age. Kortez uses reclaimed materials and objects and mixes them with a deep sense of emotion, bold and bright colors. Collages, one of his favorite art mediums, tell of social injustices such as racism, poverty, war, and police brutality. His works have been prominently showcased in prestigious shows and galleries around the NY/NJ/CT tri-state area. Kortez is also co-creator of the African Diaspora Arts Festival, where he serves as creative director and curator.

Mason Archie Mason Archie was born and raised in Dayton, OH and currently resides in Indianapolis, IN. Over 15 years experience as the Art Director and pictorial artist for Lamar Outdoor Advertising. Mason Archie is a contemporary oil painter who paints in both traditional and realistic styles, while having the ability to attack all subject matter with the same panache.

Mason founded Kindred Spirits, a gallery for young children in Indianapolis, IN to use his gift and talent to instill unity through art among youth. Many important collectors around the country have purchased Mason’s breathtaking works.

Featured Artists Melanie McAllister Melanie has had a lifelong avidity for drawing. The High Point, NC native studied psychology in college, but never strayed from art. Her passion was fully unleashed when she relocated to the San Francisco Bay Area in 2015. Immersed in an area with great appreciation and opportunities for creatives, her art flourished as she was embraced by the art community and participated in prominent exhibits. Melanie returned to NC in 2019, family in tow, and pursued a Fine Arts degree. Her preferred media are oil and acrylic, creating landscapes and abstracts. The butterfly, a recurring theme in her art, symbolizes her late father, beauty, enlightenment, and evolution.

Robert Carter Robert Carter possessed an intuitive feeling for design from an early age.

He earned his MFA at the prestigious Pratt Institute of Fine Arts in New York. His work is in the permanent collections of numerous museums and private collectors including the Denver Art Museum (Colorado), the African American Museum of Nassau County (New York), the APEX Museum (Georgia) and the Heckscher Museum (New York). His work has also been published in art books and other related publications, and he has been a contract illustrator for major New York publishers.

Robert is a professor at Nassau Community College, The State University of New York, teaching various art courses. He is a sought-after lecturer in numerous schools, universities and organizations.

Ronald Ritzie Ronald is a lifelong Morristown, NJ resident who has carved out an important niche in the art world. His acrylic mixed media works have been collected extensively over his 40-year career, locally and throughout the country. His pieces hang in public spaces including Kraft Foods, the Urban League's National Headquarters, and Madison Square Gardens. Furthermore, Ronald was commissioned by Monster Sushi in Morristown to paint Da Pond, the colorful, eye-catching mural displayed outdoors at 5 Pine Street. His works were featured prominently on the 2017 television program, Arts in the City, and the 2018 PBS documentary, In the Studio. He has participated in dozens of national art shows including Art in the Atrium. This is Ronald’s third ETV art show!

Featured Artists Rosalind “N’Zinga” Nichols Rosalind was born in Indiana into a family of artisans and craftsmen.

She studied drawing and painting at Herron School of Art and Design, Indiana University, Indianapolis, Indiana; received a BFA from California State University, Long Beach; and a MA from Oral Roberts University, Tulsa, Oklahoma. Rosalind is a mixed media artist and papermaker whose work centers around incorporating handmade papers, vintage textiles, and found objects into collages and layered paintings. She inherited this love of recycling from her grandmother. Rosalind currently resides in northeastern USA. Her decades-long career has been populated with countless solo exhibitions, publications, commissions, and prestigious honors.

Taeesha Muhammad Taeesha is a self-taught collagist, abstract painter, and arts educator. The proud Brooklynite-turned-contented-Harlem-transplant studied to be a physical therapist, but over the past five years, has succumb to her passion, making art a full-time endeavor. Taeesha’s works inspire a dialog about the power of language as it relates to Africans in the Americas from all Diasporas, while challenging audiences to question how we connect the past to the future, and ultimately, how citizens of this world connect with one another. In learning about herself -- as a Being, a woman, and a descendant of Africa in America -Taeesha sees the world through many lenses. Her art powerfully merges cultures, personalities, connections, and vibes in the human condition.

Wilhelmina Grant Wilhelmina Grant is a native New Yorker and a resident of Harlem. As a mixed-media assemblage artist, she uses discarded or found objects, which she repurposes into visual art. Many of the ideas that stimulate the creation of her work are reflective of her interpretations of contemporary social issues, namely: gentrification, violence against women and breast cancer awareness. Aside from nine solo exhibitions, Wilhelmina has participated in 16 group exhibits around New York City.

Wilhelmina hopes to have an impact on the community through the realm of visual art.

Featured Artists William Daniels William graduated from SUNY Empire State College, earning his B.A. in Visual Arts/Curatorial Studies and is pursuing his Ph.D. in Art Theory, Philosophy, & Aesthetics from the Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts.

William is a multidisciplinary artist who works primarily in textile. His art quilts and accessories feature traditional quilt blocking and paper piecing techniques and occasionally incorporate nontraditional components. His inspiration derives from urban art practice that confront contemporary issues. He often integrates modern archetypes with historical, societal, or spiritual topics. From 2014 to the present, he has received numerous awards including both the 2019 Male Quilt Artist of the Year Award from the National African American Quilt Convention, and the Lifetime Achievement Award bestowed by the African American Quilt Museum.

Will Porter Will Porter has been described as a phenomenon. He is a writer, poet, author, portraitist and agitprop artist – an art form which combines agitation and propaganda – who hails from Flint, MI, and now calls Harlem, New York home. Much in the style of icons and such as Kerry James Marshall and Emory Douglas, as well as the late Jean Michele Basquiat and Salvador Dali, Will’s art uses vibrant colors to infuse energy while depicting subjects which give “context to political and social happenings as they relate to indigenous people.” He advocates for personifying “isms” – i.e., colonialism and capitalism – on canvas and then ridiculing them, restoring confidence in the oppressed and instigating often-uncomfortable dialogue.

William Torbert Willie Torbert, born in Buffalo, New York, alumni of Pratt Institute spent several years developing his complex style as a Collage Artist.

His subjects are methodically built with layers of paper masterfully designed with his own patterns and textures. Willie Torbert’s Art encompass various mediums such as watercolor, sculpture, print making and a wide range of unique pencil techniques. Greatly influenced by his cultural heritage, Willie Torbert, was a professional dancer for the African Ballet, a drummer, and Art Teacher.

Willie Torbert’s work embodies the contemporary essence and social commentary of his people. He is highly recognized as a fine artist.

Art For Purchase Aleathia Brown ABr1

Remember When...

Giclee on fine art paper

30x40

$1,700

ABr2

Shop Do

pencil on paper Ltd. Edition/Giclee on fine art paper

11x14

$580

ABr3

Sittin' On Attitude

hand enhanced Giclee on fine art paper

24x36

$1,750

ABr4

Choir in Color

acrylic on hand torn watercolor paper

11x14

$700

ABr5

Let's Begin A New

Giclee/Ltd. Edition on fine art paper

16x24

$750

ABr6

Flamingo Jazz

Giclee/Ltd. Edition on fine art paper

20x40

$1,500

ABr7

Jubilee

hand enhanced Giclee on fine art paper

24x36

$1,750

$3,100 $3,500

Anthony Boone ABo1

Black Berry

acrylic and fabric on canvas

ABo2

A Good Hand

mixed media and fabric on canvas

24x24x7 30x30x4

ABo3

Confident

mixed media and fabric on canvas

36x36x1.5

$3,000

ABo4

Now Knowing

acrylic mixed media on canvas

36x36x1.6

$4,700

ABo5

Viscera’s Hearbeat

mixed media and fabric on canvas

24x24x1.5

$1,500

ABo6

Whimiscal

acrylic mixed media

36x36

$3,500

Anthony Gartmond AG1

Mind Time

graphite pencil

16x20

$500

AG2

Billy Eckstine Lighting Up

graphite pencil

16x20

$500

AG3

Subway Scene

graphite pencil

16x20

$500

AG4

The Definitive Miles

graphite pencil

20x24

$250

Carl Karni-Bain CKB1

Renata

acrylic and oil stick on canvas

24x18

$1,800

CKB2

The Sisters

acrylic and oil stick on canvas

34x26

$2,000

CKB3

I Wish Tomorrow Would Come

Acrylic with razor incisions on canvas board

19x15.5

$1,000

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Art For Purchase CKB4

Mara*

CKB5

Stingrays

CKB6

Man of War

CKB7

Kalahara

acrylic and ball point pen on matboard acrylic and ball point pen on paper acrylic and ball point pen on paper acrylic, pencil and pen on canvas

15x13

$500

15x13

$300

14.5x10

$300

54x50

$5,000

Curtis Grayson CG1

Bass Player

oil on canvas

38x38

$10,000

CG2

Sky Funk

acrylic and collage on paper

18x28

$1,700

CG3

People, Faces & Strange Places

acrylic and collage on bird nest paper

18x28

$1,700

CG4

Queen

acrylic and collage on canvas

28x30

$2,800

CG5

Hallelujah

giclee limited edition on canvas

26x28

$1,000

CG6

Yin And Yang Remixed

acrylic and collage on canvas

26x36

$2,500

CG7

We Are 1 Family

acrylic on canvas

48x60

$8,000

CG8

Kind of Blue

28x36

$3,000

CG9

Make It Funky

28x36

$3,000

acrylic and collage on birdsnest paper acrylic and collage on birdsnest paper Danielle Scott

DS1

Save Her Soul

mixed media assemblage

12x36

$1,850

DS2

The Floods of Fear

collage

16x16

$650

DS3

My back is yours

mixed assemblage

12x5

$1,200

DS4

Slave masters death sentence

mixed assemblage

12x5

$800

Demarcus McGaughey DM1

Elements of Dopeness

acrylic

30x40

$3,000

DM2

Mind of a King

acrylic

30x40

$2,470

DM3

Mi Negra es Bella

acrylic

30x40

$2,470

DM4

Heart of Harlem

mixed media

36x48

$5,350

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Art For Purchase DM5

Ambassador of Harlem

mixed media

36x48

$5,350

DM6

Country Boy in Harlem

mixed media

36x48

$4,850

Earlene Hardie Cox EHC1

Leap of Faith

clay and bonded aged bronze

15x5.5x7

$1,500

EHC2

African Queen II

clay and bonded aged bronze

11.5x7x8.5

$1,200

Gabrielle Baker GB1

Metallurgy 7 - Copper Patina

acrylic on canvas

16x16

$600

GB2

Metallurgy 9 - Copper Patina

acrylic on canvas

16x16

$600

GB3

Metallurgy 18 - Silver Alloyed

acrylic on canvas

20x20

$700

GB4

Metallurgy 19 - Gold Alloyed

acrylic on canvas

20x20

$700

GB5

Mineralogy 7 - Ethiopian Opal

acrylic on canvas

36x48

$4,000

GB6

Metallurgy 16 - Antique Copper

acrylic on canvas

36x48

$4,000

GB7

Metallurgy 17 - All Things Made

acrylic on canvas

36x48

$4,000

Jimmy James Greene JG1

Pandemic Survivors 1918

acrylic and pastel

22x30

$2,000

JG2

Systemic Fencing

watercolor and colored pencil

16x20

$400

JG3

Easter Morning

watercolor, colored pencil, and collage

16x20

$400

JG4

Sankofa

watercolor, colored pencil, and collage

20x30

$2,000

JG5

Blue Nude

watercolor and acrylic

16x21

$400

JG6

Ponder

water color, colored pencil and acrylic

16x22

$400

Kortez K1

Bad Habit #2 (I Can’t Breathe)

mixed media on canvas

24x26

$650

K2

Politics of Cruelty

mixed media

36x36

$1,950

K3

Just Us

mixed media on canvas

24x36

$1,300

K4

Adventures in Attitude

acrylic on canvas

36x36

$2,100

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All Sales Final. Purchases Must Be Picked Up At Montclair Art Museum Sunday, June 20th 5 - 7 pm

Art ArtFor ForPurchase Purchase K5

Verve

K6 K7

mixed media on wood

24x80

$1,100

Nappy Vandals (The Remix) mixed media on canvas

36x48

$2,100

3 Man Remix*

24x28

$500

mixed media on wood Mason Archie

MA1

Keep Me Safe

etching and silkscreening of handmade rag paper

22x30

$2,500

MA2

Guide Me Home*

serigraph

27x36

$3,000

MA3

Guide Me Home AP*

serigraph art print

27x37

$3,500

Melanie McAllister MM1

Adonis

graphite on paper

8.5x11

$100

MM2

Rebirth

graphite on paper

8.5x11

$100

MM3

Divinity

canvas print

16x20

$250

14.5x29

$2,500

Robert Carter RC1

Let's Play Baseball

Media

RC2

Flight

pencil and pastel on paper

28x34

$6,500

RC3

First Jazz Lesson

Media

23x27

$1,000

RC4

Summer’s Distraction

Hand-embellished giclee on board

21.5x17

$1,500

59x59

$13,000

Ronald Ritzie RR1

Tiger in the Woods

mixed media, acrylic sculpture on canvas Rosalind “N’Zinga” Nichols

RN1

First Lady Uniform

acrylic/collage on canvas

42x30

$3,700

RN3

Femina: Profile

Handmade papers collage with inclusions

40x24

$1,800

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Art For Purchase Taeesha Muhammad TM1

Memories of Creation: Bilqis

acrylic on canvas

16x16

$700

TM2

Memories of Creation: Nzinga

acrylic on canvas

16x16

$700

TM3

Sentimental Mood

acrylic on canvas

12x12

$600

20x25

$1,200

7x24

$400

12x24

$400

Wilhelmina Grant WG1

Warior Moor

found metal, dagger

WG2

Knock-Kneed Nelly

cocktail strainer, grater, steamer flaps, lamp parts

WG3

Bow-Legged Lou

cocktail strainer, grater, lamp parts William Daniels

WD1

Fish Antelope

cotton wall hanging

48x60

$4,500

WD2

In That Number

cotton wall hanging

84x114

$2,500

WD3

Falcon Warrior Totem

textile

24x24

$1,500

WD4

Fish Totem

textile

24x24

$1,500

WD5

Turtle Totem

textile

24x24

$1,500

WD6

Bovid Mask with Burkina Faso Border #3

25.5x31.5

$1,500

25.5x31.5

$1,500

WD7

African prints from cultured expressions African prints from cultured exBovid Mask with Burkina Faso Border #8 pressions Will Porter

WP1

Richard Pryor

acrylic

16x20

$4,400

WP2

Green Dali

acrylic

16x20

$4,400

WP3

Red Dali

acrylic

16x20

$4,400

William Torbert WT1

Sun Daughter

collage on heavy wood

13x24

$900

WT2

Hello Sun Shine

collage on wood

12x12

$600

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Art For Purchase WT3

Water Woman

WT4

Black Was Love At First Sight

WT5

Shopper

collage

10x20

$700

collage on wood

12x12

$1,000

collage

12x12

$625

ink

26x29

$8,000

Emmett Wigglesworth EW1

The Angels Brought Us Together

Emmett Wigglesworth is a muralist, painter, sculptor, fabric designer, poet and civil rights activist from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Wigglesworth attended the College of Art and Design in Philadelphia and has resided in New York since 1958. Wigglesworth is known for his abstract and colorful murals that he says are inspired by his own cultural heritage and life experience. Wigglesworth is currently an Artist-in-Residency at the Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning (JCAL), as well as the member of the National Conference of Artists, the WeUsi Artists NYC, Association of Caribbean and American Artists, AAA Artists and Cross Sections, the Fulton Art Fair Artists, as well as the Artists in Transition.

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AMW1

Race Matters

Leroy Campbell

AMW2

Your Foot Step

Leroy Campbell

acrylic, newspaper, fabric and collage on canvas acrylic, newspaper, fabric and collage on canvas

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In 1852, a young Alabama woman takes a gift, her female slave, with her into her new marriage. Both women have secrets and dreams that unfold in unexpected ways. Bodden's debut novel, The Wedding Gift, is an intimate portrait of slavery and the 19th Century South that will leave readers breathless.

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1 out of 7 Americans (14%) is Black. Make Every Friday, Black Friday™ is our movement and multi-platform awareness campaign encouraging all Americans interested in racial equity to take action to close the wealth gap between Black Americans and other Americans at least 1 out of 7 days each week! With your help spreading the word about how consumers can leverage their individual spending power by patronizing Black-owned businesses, we can begin to overcome the economic disparities that are roadblocks to Black Prosperity.

Visit our website, reach out via email or follow us on IG, FB and Twitter. Learn about how you can help ETV support the Black community!

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This ETV program will provide academic enrichment, homework help, coaching and tutoring, college and test prep resources for youth and job training, internships, apprenticeships and workshops for adults and youth (offered virtually and in-person).

The program will be implemented in partnership with Village volunteers and through ETV scholarships with established academic enrichment service providers and independent tutors, with an emphasis on mathematics, science and writing skills.

ETV will also seek to engage, train and compensate Village members who have an interest in teaching and have the expertise in certain subject areas needed to serve as tutors and academic enrichment coaches.

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Thank you to this year’s sponsors and partners!

Sponsors

PLATINUM

GOLD

SILVER Contemporary Ladies Book Club BRONZE

Bonnie & Michael Carter Donna Lawson

Partners

African American Cultural Committee @ MAM Dodji Gbedemah, Owner @ Kente Royal Gallery Martin Little Catering Priceless Moments Photography The James Gibbs Band

Empower The Village (ETV) is a data-driven, non-profit 501(c)(3) organization on a mission to Restore Prosperity, Peace and Power to the Black community.

Learn about how you can help ETV support the Black community! empowerthevillage.org @empoweretv

info@empowerthevillage.org @empower_etv