Blackspace

swer his calling to art and activism. Pierce found early success with his PBS web-series, Beat Making Lab. BLOOM WHERE YOU ARE PLANTED

In 2014, after several years teaching beat making and songwriting across Africa and the Caribbean, Pierce's ancestors communicated a clear message: go home. Inspired by his Grandmother's mantra "bloom where you are planted" he returned to North Carolina and opened Blackspace Chapel Hill at 179 E Franklin Street. SPACE IS THE PLACE

Blackspace provides free Pan-African centered social entrepreneurship and digital media resources for local youth. Pierce has worked with a team of Artivists to teach workshops in beat making, computer graphics, videography, radio, spoken word and puppetry - with a particular focus on STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts and math) curriculums. Read about BLK AGST summer camp in the Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/kendrick-lamar-black-lives-matter_us_55d76c60e4b08cd3359c05de


Listen to a story about "Cristo Negro" on PRI's The World: http://www.pri.org/stories/2015-02-20/panamanian-carnival-tradition-manages-make-blackface-playful-and-emancipatory

Read about 5P1N0K10 in The Indy: http://www.indyweek.com/indyweek/a-master-puppeteer-and-familiar-emcee-pair-to-reimagine-the-story-of-pinocchio/Content?oid=4967762

DURM

After two years in Chapel Hill, Blackspace is opening a second location in Durham at American Underground. The Durham Blackspace officially launched in the Fall of 2016.