Atim Annette Oton of Calabar Gallery announced that Jaymes Jorsling is the fourth ART RESIDENT at Calabar Gallery Art Residency at coLAB Arts, New Brunswick, NJ. The residency continues for six months.
Jorsling is a multidisciplinary artist using painting, writing, and the stage to explore universal paradigms often highlighting nuances specific to the Black experience. He’s also a film and stage actor, performing regionally in and around NYC.
This Social Justice Residency is for emerging and mid-career Black artists globally who are working using unconventional ideas, materials, subject matter and doing some research-based work on a particular topic and pedagogy on Black lives globally & socially engaging New Brunswick.
Based in Brooklyn, Jaymes is a Magna Cum Laude graduate of The City University Of New York and has received fellowships, grants, and commissions, from Duke University, Brown University, Ucross Foundation, Pratt Institute, Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, Brooklyn Museum, and BRIC Studios, among others.
Art Advisors: Jeanne Brasile, artist and former director, Walsh Gallery, Seton Hall Gallery; Midori Yoshimoto, professor of Art History and gallery director, New Jersey City University; Halima Taha, curator, art & culture strategist, author of Collecting African American Art Works, NY; Elizabeth Keithline, artist, Woodstock, NY; Patricia Andrews-Keenan, CEO, Pigment International; and Eto Otitigbe, artist & MFA Deputy chair, Brooklyn College's Sculpture Dept.
Calabar Gallery represents underserved artists locally and globally: African, African American and Caribbean artists, with the mission of providing a place for community, exhibition, creative initiatives and projects.
coLAB Arts engages artists, social advocates, and communities to create transformative new work. coLAB Arts facilitates creative conversation through innovative programs and artist infrastructure, connects artists with community partners and mentors, and executes productions that challenge perceptions and inspire action.
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