Exhibition Catalogue

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JUNE 12–NOVEMBER 28, ...

Resilience in Nature: We Are the Roses that Grew from the Concrete is a juried gallery exhibition at Franklin Park Conservatory ...

THANKS & RECOGNITION Resilience in Nature: We Are the Roses that Grew from the Concrete would not be possible without the su ...

JURORS QUEEN BROOKS: Artist Queen Brooks was born in Columbus, Ohio. She began her art career working as an arts and crafts inst ...

MARSHALL SHORTS: Marshall Shorts is an award-winning artist, designer, brand specialist, community organizer, and entrepreneur. ...

MEET THE SELECTED ARTISTS Nevaeh Alexander Roger Brackins Jamie Ceasar Lisa M. Cliff Luke Cooper Benjamin Crumpler Kenya Davis E ...

NEVAEH ALEXANDER Rise | Acrylic | 2018 “I made this painting to honor my grandfather who was a black panther. I used acrylic pai ...

ROGER BRACKINS What shouldn’t i be? | Acrylic | 2021 “Maya Angelou’s Still I Rise and Tupac’s The Rose That Grew from Concrete w ...

JAMIE CEASAR Alley Rose | Film photography | 2021 “I wouldn’t call myself a nature photographer, but I love capturing the natura ...

LISA M. CLIFF Creative Butterfly | Acrylic | 2019 “For me, concrete is a metaphor for hard challenging times which lately repres ...

LUKE COOPER Rainy Day in the Forest | Acrylic | 2020 “This painting was inspired by looking out of a cinder block glass window o ...

BENJAMIN CRUMPLER Paradise Regained #18 | Acrylic, mixed media | 2021 “Floral images are a fascinating exaggeration of physical ...

KENYA DAVIS Honeycomb Collective | Mixed media | 2021 “For proving ‘There’s strength in numbers...^ look no further than the ing ...

EARL H. ENGLISH Altered Reality #3 | Scanography | 2021 “My work is about his passion for nature. The work is done in a more div ...

JANET GEORGE Paradise Paved | Digitally manipulated photography | 2021 “Paradise Paved was inspired by the song, Big Yellow Taxi ...

YAHFA GUERRA The Traveler | Acrylic | 2019 “The Traveler invites the viewer with a gaze to venture further into composition, whe ...

JASMINE HILL Resilient Tulip | Digital photography | 2021 Resurrected Fruit | Digital photography | 2021 “Resilient Tulip captur ...

JOSIAH JAMISON Hyper-Visibility | Oil, silver leaf | 2021 “My work revolves around the representation of black and brown bodies ...

LANCE JOHNSON Dream (rest/resistance) | Mixed media | 2021 “Rest is resistance. Too often we in our communities are deprived of ...