Vibin’ High Wit Black Art

Archiving the stories, knowledge, embodied wisdom, and the mental, emotional, somatic, and spiritual health care practices of Afro-diasporic, queer, and trans artists.

VHWBA seeks to share power and resources; build, sustain, and inspire connection during the loneliness epidemic; and promote the holistic health and well-being of Afro-diasporic, queer, and trans artists.

Why is making art and creativity so essential for us, in general, and right now?

How do we take care of ourselves in a world, society, and culture that renders a life dedicated to art-making and creativity nearly insane?

Who are our artistic communities? How do we find and/or build them? How and why is the process of not finding them so essential to the communities we build? And how do we support, uplift, and hold one another accountable across power, values, belief systems, status, and other forms of difference in ethical ways? How do we grieve when the tools are not there? How do we hold ourselves accountable to our values, own our mistakes, and become better at what we are here to do? How do we muster the strength of vulnerability after experiencing harm and violence?

And how do we make art that catalyzes true social, emotional, and interpersonal change because we choose to make it so, not merely because they politicize us, our humanity, and force us to sell it? How do we make things that say something about us that name the reality that our beings supersede the colonial language that binds us and simultaneously gives us the room to name, claim, and make sense of ourselves in the aesthetic, colonial encounter?

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