Can’t Stop The Vibes

Meet Wisdom Baty, an artist, parent, curator, and educator based in Chicago. She’s interested in exploring events about how black artists think about the world we want to construct. 

She’s also on the Arts Advisory Board at Experimental Station and the COLAB 7100 Director of Development and Community Relations where she curates a community based co-working space and small business incubator. 

When Wisdom discovered that there were limited resources for mothers who wanted to explore artist residencies, she did what any visionary would do. She created a manifestor and started doing programming with parents and other institutions. The Ways We Make series was born.

The Ways We Make: Nurturing Creative Communities as Mothers of Color, is a gathering and celebration of black and brown women to share art and strategy to thrive as moms. 

Wisdom has always felt a warmth and energy around creative people. She follows that instinct to continue to build with other creatives. 

In this episode we discuss how artists can affirm the things they want in their lives, how to create only what matters to you, and reimaging physical space and historical accuracy for black people.

Check out this episode:

• Find out why Wisdom is interested in embodying intersectionality in her roles as educator, artist, and curator.
• Learn how Wisdom reclaims her time as a mother and artist. 
• Wisdom’s experience in Grad school and how it impacted her art practice.
• What Wisdom believes goes against our DNA and ancestry that’s rooted in white supremacy culture.
• What brings Wisdom joy these days?

 

Links in this episode:

Wisdom Baty

Wisdom Baty Instagram

Ways We Make

Nap Ministry

Three Walls

Colab 7100