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Nat. Brut's Issue 9 is out!

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November 01, 2017

Check out the interviews I did with Grace Rosario Perkins and Kat Geng here!

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Shifting Movements is one of Wanda's Picks!

May 17, 2017

I had the good pleasure of speaking with Miss Wanda Sabir this morning on her radio show Wanda's Picks. Ms. Sabir is a writer radio host, and teacher who runs the site Wanda's Picks , which she describes as a black events resource. Check out the whole episode here:

Shifting Movements reviewed in SF Gate!

May 24, 2017

Photo (and caption) from the article: "Cesar Cueva flashes a black light to reveal the images of 'Natasha McKenna,' 'Rosann Miller,' 'Monique Deckard,' 'Raynette Turner,' and 'Redel Jones' (2016) by Danielle Wright at the SOMArts 'Shifting Movements' exhibition" And an excerpt: Other pieces seem almost unrelated at all, until you begin to understand the intersectional work Kochiyama pioneered. A beautiful and heartbreaking section of the show, #SayHerName, is presented in complete darkness. Danielle Wright has created 100 portraits of black women and girls who have “come into contact with structural racism and state violence via law enforcement.” The portraits, small, but detailed, were done with invisible ink. To see them, you have to walk through the space with a black-light flashlight. The symbolism, that one has to go looking for these women, is immediate, and so is the feeling that this is something Kochiyama would s...

#BlackWomensHistoryMonth plugged on Creativity Explored's website

May 10, 2017

“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.” -Toni Morrison Black Women's History Month is a sustained meditation on the historical, political, social, and cultural contributions of of black women in the U.S. I hatched this project idea after years of being fed up with the lack of representation of Black Women during both #BlackHistoryMonth and #WomensHistoryMonth so I approached a few artists to collaborate with me to do something about that. My collaborators Brian Hayes , Joseph Omolayole , and Joseph "J.D." Green created over 50 portraits between the three of them! They shared their incredible work with their studio mates and with friends and others via social media. Check it out on Brian's , Joseph's and J.D.'s instagram pages. I painted one portrait each day for a total of 59 works (check them out on my insta page ) throughout February, or Black history month, and March, Women's his...