Creative Labor Is Real Labor. Our Systems Need to Catch Up.

Artists are already building practical skills, business knowledge, and workplace readiness. Beyond the Table, a Cleveland-based artist workforce initiative, offers one example of what it looks like to treat creative practice as labor instead of hobby. We have a language problem when it comes to creative work. Too often, art-making is treated as passion before it is recognized as labor. […]

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Bare My Soul Continues, at Deep Roots

Bare My Soul is a collection of canvas works exploring vulnerability, truth, identity, and the space where they intersect. The works in this collection are interpretations of two nude models while exploring a series of journal questions designed to engage the creatives’ relationships with the above-mentioned concepts. As a result, the works are conscious imagery of our engagement with vulnerability […]

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Summer Shows at Deep Roots Experience

Generations April 29–May 22 Artists are invited to create work with their children or parents, completing the circle of generations in art and creativity. Throughout the run of this show, there will be artist talks with engagement activities for families. REMIX June 3–July 3 Artists create reimagined visuals of album covers that shaped their worlds. SheArt: B.A.P.S. July 16–August 14 […]

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Deep Roots Presents Bee1ne and SheArt3

Bee1ne Solo Show: Ghetto Heroes Bryant “Bee1ne” Anthony explores the things and people who have inspired and shaped him as an artist and a person. Ghetto Heroes is a living exhibition that will see additions throughout the course of the show. Several series within this exhibition, Ghetto Heroes provides context to the meaning behind Bee1ne’s unique style. SheArt3: Transcend SheArt3: […]

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