Speak Your Truth Reschedules AND STILL I RISE Exhibit for 1/11

By: Dec. 13, 2013
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Speak Your Truth Presents And Still Rise has been rescheduled from December 14, 2013 to January 11, 2014 due to Winter Storm Electra.

Speak Your Truth is proud to announce its second art exhibit And Still I Rise, Speak Your Truth supports artists that have overcome adversity. And Still I Rise will feature the art of Christina Thomas, Jae Quinlan and Sagine Cave'. There will be Spoken Word performances by Shye Sales and Danielle Cooper. And Still I Rise is about the warrior women we must become when faced with obstacles and how we meet those challenges. This art is dedicated to all the women and men who are in the daily struggle of living a day at a time. Speak Your Truth / Affordable Art For The Soul represents artists that have experienced adversity and gives them a voice. All art work wll be sold for a $1000 and under. For more information, go to: http://speakyourtruthinfo.wordpress.com

Speak Your Truth was founded on the West Coast. Two women found that art can heal. Christina was working on a hospice case and the experience was so moving she came home from a 72 hour shift and painted Speak Your Truth which would be the name and logo of their company. Married in the state of Connecticut these two joined in love also decided to become business partners. The complimentary pairing of Christina's creativty and Nieta's bussiness savvy proved for a union of mind and soul. A start up event that Speak Your Truth had in Washington State was at Starbucks in Pioneer Square in Seattle, WA.

On the East Coast Christina Thomas, co-founder of Speak Your Truth showed at the Peter Louis Gallery in NYC and with John McMullen's Art of Fashion. Christina has also shown in Newark, NJ during Open Doors Art Walk at the Artisan Collective. Also, she was recently published in ArtTour International Magazine. This year Christina Thomas designed her first book cover for the poet Shye Sales,"Salutaions to the Dawn".

Christina Thomas, visual artist: I communicate with my audience with words and phrases that I believe are significant. The marriage of text and image in my work are my focus. My goal is for the texture and color to find balance so they can coexist in harmony. Tissue is the material that I use to sculpt the words and it is a tedious process. The letters are then bathed in ink. My color choices are driven by the mood of the word and the intensity of the feeling that I am trying to convey. I have included the use of metallics in my work and have found them to be challenging to integrate but an evolution from my previous works.

Jae Quinlan, Visual Artist: Jae Quinlan is an accomplished visual artist with a full line of Copper-Enameled "Cufflynx ", Wire Wrapped jewelry & Hand painted clothing to her credit. Her paintings & life sculptors have been on exhibit in galleries across the Tri-State area with work featured consecutively at Newarks Open Doors Tour & Paul Robeson Galleries @ Rutgers Newark.

Jae is co-owner of eclectic trendy boutique " The Artisan Collective" in beautiful downtown Newark and creative mind behind spoken word and music format " Crack The Mic" at the Artisan Collective is located at 25 Halsey St, lower where she and her partners collectively utilize art as a vehicle to elevate the community.

Sagine, visual artist: Given her natural flair for bringing life to the canvas, Sagine Cavé shows her love of afros, retro and abstract by fusing them into her original pieces. Sagine was born with an innate love for the arts. Her pieces are a reflexion of her life experiences and she primarely works with arcylic on canvas. A dancer and visual artist for over twelve years, she recently decided to follow her calling and turn her love of painting in her past time into her full-time job. Her signature work has not gone unnoticed. Ms. Cavé has been invited to various art shows over the past ten years including an exhibition at Charlie's Gallery in Toronto, Ontario, a perminant position at the Ottawa, Ontario Underpass, the Negro Community Centre's 2008 Silent Auction in Montreal, Quebec and the lululemon store in downtown Montreal where she was a featured artist. She was also invited as a guest on CBC's All in a Day hosted by Adrian Harwood. Ms. Cavé is thankful for her family's unwavering support, especially since her decision to take on professional artistry. Her website: http://saginesoulart.tumblr.com

Spoken Word: Shye Sales is a performing poet who considers herself a "voice for those yet unable to speak." She has been appeared in the Inaugural edition of Kalyani Magazine, which featured "The Cleansing", her first published work. She facilitates a writing workshop for LGBT youth and young adults who struggle with the circumstances of growing up LGBT. The HealLink Circle shows these young people that words may hurt, but they also have healing power. She encourages them to "write through the pain." Shye has just released her first book of poetry, "Salutations to the Dawn". Shye currently hosts, "Crack the Mic", a monthly Open Mic series at the Artisan Collective in Newark and co-hosts, "LPJ's Friday Night Jam" and appears as a contributor on the Women Writers in Bloom Poetry Salon website's Poetry Garden.

Spoken Word: Danielle Cooper is a queer human writer artist activist currently developing characters and coalitions in Newark, New Jersey. Raised in Maplewood, New Jersey Danielle gravitated to the written word through the exploration of their LGBT history, and found comfort and community in the lives of LGBT heroes they read about like Huey P. Newton, Audre Lorde, and Harvey Milk.

In February 2011 Danielle published their first book of poems entitled: Love's Twisted Lessons: for the Heartbroken, the Heartbreakers, and the Sexually Frustrated. The book encompasses an unconventional journey through the emotions of love that challenges and heals. Danielle continues to perform while working on their blog lovestwistedlessons.wordpress.com as well as laying the groundwork for their production company. Danielle's second book of poems entitled Tales from the Nuthouse: Talking to pieces of Myself will debut in April 2014.



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