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BADC for Obama

Oct 2, 2008

Last weekend, the Black Artists of DC held open studios as a benefit for Barack Obama. Twenty percent of the proceeds from all sales were donated to the Obama campaign. With a deal like that, I didn't even try to resist.

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Michael Platt's work
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Daniel Brooking
The incomparable Sondra Arkin and I visited two of the group sites. The Howard painting and sculpture studios, a couple blocks from the main Howard campus, featured work from about 10 artists, including some of Michael Platt's. I admire Platt's work, which pretty much covers the media spectrum from installation to photography and all in between, as much as anyone's in this town, so I was thrilled to be able to pick up a small digital print at a price I could manage. Sondra picked up a sassy abstract piece from Daniel Brooking.

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Aziza
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Sondra gazing at Aziza's work
Then we visited Aziza Gibson-Hunter, who hosted several artists at her house.  We have seen lots of Aziza's work, of course, but were still surprised and moved by a series of small paintings of people ascending from the earth, made in memory of the Katrina victims.

 
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