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‘Artist’ Archives

Review of the Center for Contemporary African Art & Culture ‘My Identity’ by Liberian Artist Martin Zeinway

Review of the Center for Contemporary African Art & Culture ‘My Identity’ by Liberian Artist Martin Zeinway

By: Charles S. Mombo @burnedbrass, @charlessmombo Article sponsored by: Chicago-based Search Engine Optimization and Social Media Marketing Consulting Firm   Each piece of Zeinway’s work eloquently captures his experience during Liberia’s barbaric civil war in [Read More]

Chicago Artist Month Presents: Liberian Art Featuring Martin Zeinway’s “My Identity”

Chicago Artist Month Presents: Liberian Art Featuring Martin Zeinway’s “My Identity”

Source: Liberian Community Association of Illinois Chicago Artist Month Presents: Liberian Art Featuring Martin Zeinway’s “My Identity” Liberian Artist Martin Meaipa Zeinway The search for one's true identity is humanity's major quest in [Read More]

Poetess Tikisha McFall talks about her locs

Poetess Tikisha McFall talks about her locs

By: Charles S. Mombo Tikisha McFall, the beautiful and talented poetess, has one of the most beautiful head of locs. Bright in color with a perfect bill of health are Tikisha’s locs. In my opinion, Tikisha McFall, the beautiful and talented poetess, has one of the most [Read More]

An Interview with the talented Poetess Tikisha McFall

An Interview with the talented Poetess Tikisha McFall

By Charles S. Mombo Article Sponsored by: Workshop on How to Start, Build, and Grow Your E-Commerce Business   An Interview with the talented Poetess Tikisha McFall. Chocolate City recently caught up with the beautiful and talented poetess, Tikisha McFall. Chocolate [Read More]

ChocolateCity.cc Interviews contemporary artist Carolina I. Reyes

ChocolateCity.cc Interviews contemporary artist Carolina I. Reyes

Carolina I. Reyes studied Fine Arts at Columbia College in Chicago and knows her subject matter very well. She is an urban, modern and surrealist painter and a visual artist providing quality work and visionary perspective on life, people, social issues and her own twist on [Read More]

James T. Alfred starring in A Brown Tale (The DaDa Revisited)

James T. Alfred starring in A Brown Tale (The DaDa Revisited)

James T. Alfred starring in A Brown Tale (The DaDa Revisited) Six years after graduating with a M.F.A in Acting from the Institute for Advanced Theater Training at Harvard University, Chicago's native James T. Alfred returns home with his new solo show for a Limited [Read More]

The elusive artist Banksy’s Follow Your Dreams – help write this article

The elusive artist Banksy’s Follow Your Dreams – help write this article

The elusive artist Banksy’s Follow Your Dreams Cancelled. This artwork by the elusive Oscar-nominated street graffiti artist Banksy can be found in Chinatown in Boston on Boylston Street; near the intersection of Washington Street. Bansky’s work “Follow Your [Read More]

Fanta Celah creates hair trend with Cosmic Crown

Fanta Celah creates hair trend with Cosmic Crown

By: Charles S. Mombo Article Sponsored by: SEO and Social Media Marketing Article Source: Hair Nations By the way, Cosmic Crown is Celah’s original design, but some say that it's reminiscent of hair styles from 6000 BC. We recently caught up with the beautiful and [Read More]

ChocolateCity.cc Interviews contemporary artist Fanta Celah

ChocolateCity.cc Interviews contemporary artist Fanta Celah

The talented Fanta Celah is a modern surrealist painter, a jewelry stylist for the stars, and a musician. The talented Fanta Celah is a modern surrealist painter, a jewelry stylist for the stars, such as Les Nubians, Ugochi, Ray 6, and Kelan Phil Cohran. She was featured in [Read More]

Djini: A Collection of African Pottery Antique and Contemporary

Djini: A Collection of African Pottery Antique and Contemporary

By: Charles S. Mombo Source: Alliance of Professional Africans Marva Pitchford Jolly, the outstanding and talented Chicago-based artist will be present to show and explain her work. Jolly is a self-taught master ceramicist whose work is heavily influenced by traditional [Read More]

ChocolateCity.cc Interviews contemporary artist Daria Amerik

ChocolateCity.cc Interviews contemporary artist Daria Amerik

By: Charles Mombo on Twitter @CharlesSMombo, www.ChocolateCity.cc on Twitter @burnedbrass The Academy Award does not have an award category for, “Artist who brings diversity to the Arts.” If they did have such a category, the beautiful and talented Daria Amerik of [Read More]

Do You Care if Mrs. Obama Doesn’t Support Black Designers?

Do You Care if Mrs. Obama Doesn’t Support Black Designers?

By Charles S. MomboMrs. Obama looking beautiful as usual in an outfit designed by Isabel Toledo, a Cuban-born American fashion designer For millions of American women, Jacqueline Kennedy was the fashion standard by which every woman including African Americans on the public [Read More]

Mrs. Obama criticized for non-Black Designer

Mrs. Obama criticized for non-Black Designer

Michelle at a Barbara Walters show in a rosette-trimmed sheath from Jason Wu.Amnau Eele, co-founder of the Black Artists Association (BAA), is taking Mrs. Obama to task because she did not have her inauguration outfits designed by African American designers. Amnau Eele, is [Read More]

Chocolatecity.cc Interviews Painter Dana Todd

Chocolatecity.cc Interviews Painter Dana Todd

Dana ToddBorn and raised in Chicago, IL., Dana struck the artistic nerve early on. Having never taken a single painting lesson, her gifts, she proclaims, are a testament from God that reminds her to remain humble. She proudly states, “It’s the first thing I knew [Read More]

Chocolatecity.cc/blog Interviews photographer Stephanie Graham

Chocolatecity.cc/blog Interviews photographer Stephanie Graham

Stephanie GrahamChocolatecity.cc/blog is grateful  that talented photographer, Stephanie Graham, has been kind enough to take some time out of her busy schedule to answer few questions and has been generous in allowing us to publish three  images from her folio of [Read More]

Nora Musu Art

Nora Musu Art

Ms. Nora MusuBorn in Madison, Wisconsin to Liberian parents, Nora Musu’s art and life experience epitomize a multiculturalism that transcends boundaries or specific styles. Nora was always surrounded by art and influential artists and trained under Cietta David [Read More]

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Chicago’s City Clerk Mendoza Scrapped Herbert Pulgar Design – Was it wrongly misinterpreted as gang symbols?

Chicago’s City Clerk Mendoza Scrapped Herbert Pulgar Design – Was it wrongly misinterpreted as gang symbols?

By:  Charles S. Mombo Chicago’s City Clerk Mendoza Scrapped Herbert Pulgar Design – Was it wrongly [Read More]

Chrysler and Clint Eastwood’s Super Bowl ad – is the issue unnecessarily politicised?

Chrysler and Clint Eastwood’s Super Bowl ad – is the issue unnecessarily politicised?

Chrysler and Clint Eastwood's Super Bowl commercial "It's Half Time In America." Source: Screengrab Karl Rove [Read More]

The Holy Bible – Is it the Word of God and Does the Bible Contain Lies?

The Holy Bible – Is it the Word of God and Does the Bible Contain Lies?

By: Charles S. Mombo @burnedbrass Dust in God’s Eyes, a rare satellite photo – Hubbell Telescope Deep Space – The [Read More]

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