PES Studios

✨OCTOBER NEWSLETTER✨ Swipe for this month’s highlights! >>>>
We are thrilled to share that our growing studio community has been hard at work!💫

Dear PES Family,

We unequivocally assert that Black Lives Matter. We don't consider this to be simply a statement, or a hashtag: it is a clear fact that Black Lives Matter. It is a mantra that must be repeated within our own communities, but it also must echo and reverberate until the sentiment is no longer considered to be radical, but regular. Black Lives Matter.

To say we are in solidarity with the fight for racial justice and the movement is not enough: we believe that we must be proactive in our approach to creating racial equity in our communities. It is in our foundation to amplify issues of social justice and social equity through art. In our past, we have done this through exhibitions, public programs, interactive happenings etc., which we will continue to do.

In addition to this, we aim to expand the movement in our own small way by sharing more resources and practical strategies for the NOW.

There are many ways to take action. Activism is not a single road highway, there are multiple ways to be impactful and participate. Swipe through to view 3 ways that we’ve found particularly important this week. >>>>

🌿 to Grace Lynne Haynes! 🎀
🌿 Grace Lynne Haynes is a California born visual artist currently based in NJ. She creates lusciously composed paintings containing bright textures and patterns. Intricate moments are juxtaposed against flat, black swaths of paint shaped to represent black female bodies. The artist’s painterly devices lead the viewer to question the very nature of color and how historically symbolic meanings surrounding colors and shades, especially black, are constructed. In Haynes’s work, black appears aspirational, dignified, and sublime. The result is a network of images addressing complex topics and stereotypes surrounding black femininity. She is an inaugural member of Kehinde Wiley’s Black Rock Senegal residency, is included in the 2020 edition of Forbes 30 Under 30 in Art & Style. 🎀
🎀 To join our community of cultural practitioners, head over to the link in our bio!