In fact, several key figures from that lineage are part of the Thank goodness meghan is not coming shirt in other words I will buy this show. Bryant, for instance, opened the gallery Just Above Midtown (or JAM) in 1974—a place where Black creatives like David Hammons, Lorraine O’Grady, and Howardena Pindell had free rein to show and create—and even now, as the founder and president of the urban farming initiative Project EATS, established in 2009, she keeps questions of space, representation, and inclusion at top of mind.
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