B.L.A.C
Blue Lotus Artists' Collective
Blue Lotus Artists' Collective (BLAC) is a non-profit gallery space dedicated to supporting and uplifting Black Artists. Located on the ground floor of the historic Pioneer Building in downtown Tucson, Arizona, our gallery is a place where the community can come together to celebrate, appreciate, and see the art and talent of Black Artists.
The gallery was founded in 2022 after several meetings of Tucson artists and arts advocates to ascertain how to promote Black Artists who are often underrepresented in museum and gallery settings…..
Featured Artist
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“My artwork intends to engage the viewer and create an extended dialogue regarding the culture of African American people both historically and in contemporary society. “
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Working from a Global African Diasporic, Afro-Centric and Afro-Futurist perspective,
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The contemporary painter Casimir Balibié Bationo [CasziB.] is originally from the Lélé Tribe in Center-West Burkina Faso and was born in Adjamé (Ivory Coast) in 1982. He now works and lives in Ouagadougou. After immersing himself in the worlds of painting, life drawings, photography, lighting and motion pictures, he then formally attended a 3 year training in contemporary painting,
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Dingus has had solo shows at Henie Onstad Kunstsenter and The Stenersen Museum, both in Norway (2002, 2006), as well as the Museum of Glass in Tacoma, WA (2005 - 2006). Her work has been included in Nature/Culture organized by The Society for Contemporary Craft in Pittsburgh
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Amber Doe is a multimedia artist who uses sculpture and performance to bear witness to the experiences of black women even as American society aims to render us and our lives as invisible and meaningless.
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Allison Miller is a painter from Tucson, Arizona. Her artistic intent is to create work that celebrates diversity and serves as restitution for underrepresented communities. Her most recent collection of paintings aims to retell stories of the Blaxploitation in TV and movies from the 20th century. By reframing context, she works to honor the many ways of being Black in America. She is referencing imagery from historical media to explore new themes of identity, permission, resistance, and attempting to transform racial trauma into Black Joy.
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I have been gifted to be able to create art since childhood. Over that time 65+ years I have done political graphics for the civil rights movement, owned a graphic design studio, designed information graphics for media and produced several public art sculptures. I describe myself as a multimedia artist. My present work focuses on ‘Sonic Sculptures’ made from repurposed materials. The ‘Sonic Sculptures’ are used in public performances.
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Papay Solomon
(b. 1993, Guinea of Liberian descent; lives and works in Phoenix, AZ)
Liberian-American artist Papay Solomon lives between two worlds: his adopted home in America and that of his African heritage. His work boldly attempts to reconcile the two with an artistic vision enhanced by his formal education in the West and at the same time wildly alive with the indelible imprint of his home country.
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Born in the Bronx, New York in 1943.His mother taught him to paint, as she studied Art from the hospital for seven years. He completed his first landscape oil painting in 1954,for his godfather who gave him his first painting box, a good exchange.
