The Natural Hair Symposium will include a natural hair artwork along with events coinciding to help educate on certain topics and issues in the natural hair community. At the symposium, we will have guest speakers and stylists, hair models (youth and adult), presentations on the historical context of natural hair, and product/styling demos. Register Here…
NCORE 2018 New Orleans Start the Conversation This week, I presented a few posters on Project Naptural at the Annual National Conference on Race and Ethnicity in American Higher Education (NCORE), which serves as the leading national forum on issues of race and ethnicity in American higher education. NCORE emphasizes the intersection of race, ethnicity, gender, religion, and…
The Project Naptural Workshops consist of tutorials, discussions, journaling, & product-making for kinky and curly haired female-identified folks. Workshops are free and limited spots are available, so registration required for each participant. Parents must fill out the form for each child and themselves. Refreshments will be made available at each workshop. All participants must be…
Hi Folks! It has been a year since my last poster exhibition and I am happy to say my next exhibit will be Saturday, July 8, 2017! I have 18 new pieces I will be revealing at the show but that’s just the tip of the iceberg. I have teamed up with the STEPs program…
So, this week has definitely been a busy one! I was invited to speak at Oklahoma State University by the School of Fine Art’s Director and I was honored to accept the invite. My schedule consisted of a visit to the Oklahoma City Memorial Museum, a talk open to the campus, critique of student work and a…
Two and a half years, 200 pages and a ton of design work and my thesis is now complete in book form! We all know the boring version that you have to turn in at the defense before graduation, but I finally got time to lay it out in book form. Very excited about this…
The Creation of Project Naptural and True ‘Hairitage’ I was featured in the North Texas Daily News. To read more, go to the The NT Daily Here. The journalist’s name is Kaylen Howard and I must say that it was an absolute pleasure interviewing with her. Her genuine interest in my project and life goals added to the…
UNT graduate researches African American women and their hair – and hopes to use that information for an app I was featured in the UNT News (a press release). To read more, go to the UNT News Article Here.
I am headed back to the states today after a wonderful and empowering experience in Costa Rica at the Meaning of Blackness Conference at the University of Costa Rica, San Jose. I met so many awesome Afro-Costa Ricans, Afro-Canadians, Afro-Europeans, and Afro-Americans that are doing some awesome things for us, our Black people. While nerves…
Thanks for supporting Project Naptural! Below is a gallery of my poster designs sized to fit your phone’s screen. Click on the illustration that you want to download. Once the high resolution image has appeared, save the image to your phone and set as wallpaper. Feel free to download as many as you would like!
