Rise -n- Dine at Emory Village

03/19/2025

60-SECOND PORTRAITS Of Our City:
1. The GOAT Photographer at Black-owned just yersterday.
2. Future GOAT Artist & Curator at Black-owned
3. The YOUNGEST-serving HBCU PRESIDENT Dr. Martin Lemelle Jr. of ! at
4. & 5. The HARDEST-working Neighborhood Beautification Instigator, . While dozens of groups do one-off clean-ups, Chad is in the streets 52 weeks per year. Please visit thechadlivseyproject.com
6. My longtime friend, the BOOK GOAT Nia Demali of the A’s oldest Black (and most Afro-centric) knowledge vault, at Greenbriar.
7. Nia and I. Thank you for this photo.
8. and his stylish son buying flowers at our neighborhood Krogers. I have some of my most meaningful interactions at the place many of you (b&w) have called “Ghetto Kroger.”
9. & 10. brightening up the parking lot at Summerhill Publix.
11. - 13. Pastors Levi and Bill with Parishioners.
14. & 15. Cheryl and her daughter having fun with s stranger.

02/24/2025

See Curtis Patterson & Hasani at before April 5. Thursday through Saturday, Noon to 5pm.
“Light Work”, featuring the African Diaspora Art Museum of Atlanta’s two Flowers & Seeds recipients, brightens the western wing of . I went Saturday afternoon, after helping The Project cleanup trash on Bankhead Highway (4eva) in the morning, so i left my Js at the door.

01/21/2025

11/01/2024

FOUND WALDO! He’s at , in the form of Jamar Robinson AKA . Former Chemist, Trainer, and Fitness Influencer, Jamaar hosts Social Media Strategy Coffee Chats at . Come relax and re-engage with your audiences Nov 6, 7, and/or 13, from 10 til noon.

10/24/2024

I don’t know how i get to sit in a room with over a dozen Black women, listening, only listening, really listening, as five of them discuss their art and everything. How they find themselves and show themselves in their work. The societal obstacles that must be leapt. The support shared with sistas. The Joy their art brings them—and i add, “and others.”
Thank you.
Artist talk at :
1) founder below .design.studios gypsum-based “Braid My Hair IV”
2) ‘s “Sun Bathe Me in Yellow”
3) .design.studios AKA Sarah H. Jones
4) Detail of “braids” in a Sara H.Jones piece and a viewer’s braids.
5) AKA Evan Blackwell Hegelsen
6) ‘s “Blue Hour”
7) AKA Candace Caston
8) ‘s piece ___
9) .design.studios
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12) A figurine by
13) wonderfully held space for
Tila Studios is at and is a NO Commission Art Gallery advancing the careers of Black Women Artists.

10/15/2024

IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD, 1) Firefighter LATONYA dropped by next door, just to check on Mason’s broken wrist; 2) Vea is growing up too fast; and 3) Stephanie gave me a “Let’s go read books” look.

07/25/2024

Made a new neighborhood friend, after i thanked Kathy for nurturing a beautiful crepe myrtle. In North Atlanta most people chop the tops off. Southside we let em grow. TY Kathy.

07/22/2024

S & S of making a side hustle a family affair.

07/18/2024

STAY OPEN-MINDED! I had six stores at Southlake Mall to choose from when i went to buy a new pair o Pandas. Went to Snipes to buy em from one of my sneaker plugs. WHILE I was giving her props for her help, her “Manager” interrupted to re-assign her to do inventory. Later, when i tried to _gently tell the manager whatup, she ASSumed i had a problem and screamed my friend/acquaintance’s name across the store with a “Come here”. Be open to
Gratitude!

07/15/2024

“Always surround yourself with positive people.”
— Kaylah aka .art ‘s Grandma Anna.