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KP BOWENS-SAFFO

KP BOWENS-SAFFO

KP BOWENS-SAFFO

PRINT MAKER and GRAPHIC ARTIST

Kabuya Pamela Bowens-Saffo is a Florida based artist specializing in printmaking, graphics, and mixed media. Her work explores aspects of everyday social and political human relations highlighting important references to acknowledge a progressive history of African Americans. Bowen-Saffo’s interest in narrative content employs metaphor and visual iconography as a means to examine people, place, and purpose.

ABOUT Face, Giclee print, 30 X 30 in., 2021

ABOUT Face, Giclee print, 30 X 30 in., 2021

“ABOUT Face” is a new body of work concerning race, identity, mental-health and economic crisis.

WHEELS, media paper sculpture

WHEELS, media paper sculpture

The installation of the “Wheel Series “ at Munree Cemetery consists of 30 wheels in the making. The cemetery is an historical landmark of African American burials (some date former slaves) recovered during highway road construction.

The artwork titled “Sacred Bird” is a funeral of symbolic rituals that acknowledge the deaths and killings of black men and boys by police forces. The film “To Kill A Mockingbird” and the musician Charlie ‘Bird’ Parker are an inspiration and motivation for this work. The mockingbird is a symbol of innocence and many people think it’s sinful to kill or harm it. It is also resilient, singing the unrelenting chants of mocking sounds.

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“Tracks & Bridges”, a series of drawings on paper and mixed media collage assemblages, features the image The Harp , created by sculptor Augusta Savage. Bowens-Saffo considers Savage's work and the work of the Harlem Renaissance writer James Weldon Johnson as an inspiration and influence for this series.

KP BOWENS-SAFFO
KP BOWENS-SAFFO

Kabuya Pamela Bowens-Saffo is a Florida-based artist specializing in printmaking, graphics, and mixed media. Her work explores aspects of everyday social and political human relations highlighting important references to acknowledge a progressive history of African Americans. She is a graduate of Howard University in Washington, DC and Tyler School of the Arts at Temple University in Philadelphia. She also did MFA studies at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York while working as a master printer with Robert Blackburn at the Printmaking Workshop.

Bowens-Saffo is the chief curator and director of educational programs at the Anderson Brickler Gallery, a globally inclusive and community-centered art gallery focusing on art created by persons of the African diaspora. The gallery is located in Tallahassee, Floridawhere Bowens-Saffo was an Associate Professor of Printmaking at Florida State University, visiting professor at Florida Agricultural & Mechanical University.

A recipient of New York Foundation for the Arts, National Endowment for the Arts Mid-Atlantic Grant, Bronx Council for Arts and Artist Residencies at Salem2Salem in Germany and The School of Graphic Arts in Venice Italy. Bowens-Saffo is the founder-director of THINKING CAP: Collaborative Arts Projects focusing public 'art in action' initiatives involving artists, architects, engineers and environmental scientists.

ARTIST’S EMAIL INFO: kpbs@mail.com

PAMELA HARRIS LAWTON

PAMELA HARRIS LAWTON
CLAIRE WATSON

CLAIRE WATSON