Kinna LeBlanc Creative

  Meet the Female Artist Inspiring Art Spaces One Exhibit at a Time . J. Kinna LeBlanc                          T he hazy sunrays of July peered into the airy art space as guests, mostly women, gathered to view the 2nd annual “Future is Female” art exhibit held at sk.Artspace.  Melissa Sutherland, a bubbly brown 33-year-old multidisciplinary artist, stood arms crossed against her lime green satin slip dress, with a warm smile observing the happenings in the room.   Local artist, exhibiting for the first time, brought her so much joy and it beamed across her face as she twirled through the bright and airy art gallery.   "In 2010 I wrote in my journal 'I want to design and develop organizations that will allow me to give back to various communities.’ Today I get to do that with sk.Artspace" She once said in a #TBT Instagram post reminiscing on where she’d like...

Pretty Lonely A film By Kinna LeBlanc Creative This film follows a young woman who overcompensates for a virtual date. Hunter College Film/Media Spring 2020 Under the direction of Michael Gitlin Jeremy Levin

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Quarantine Scenes: Where Hunter Students Are Tuning Into Their Online Classes Students around the country have moved to online learning due to COVID-19, meaning their seat in the “classroom” may now be at a kitchen table, in the corner of a bedroom or cross-legged on the living room couch. Some are home alone, while others are sharing space with siblings, parents and grandparents — or children of their own. For an exercise on descriptive writing, students in instructor Susie Armitage's Hunter Reporting and Writing I class wrote up dispatches from their current study environments.  My cozy two-bedroom apartment is tucked away in the gritty, industrial section of Brooklyn called East New York. It’s a bright, sunny space nestled inside an enormous concrete maze of tall domino-like buildings. Each morning begins with subtle rejoicing from chirping birds outside my window. They make it easier to start another reclusive day. The indefinite downtime has turned my master...

NEWS STORY GE Manufacturing Plant New York City’s school board voted 6-1 in favor to open a school on the site of the new General Electric manufacturing plant, as members were convinced this idea would save the board money. Superintendent Greg Hubbard recommended the “pilot program” to mix companies and classrooms at a meeting held by the New York Department of Education Monday night. The plant will employ more than 600 employees, many of them women with young children, who will work on assembly lines helping make small appliances for GE. To attract and retain these working-class women, the plant’s “satellite school” will have three classrooms serving about 60 kindergarten and first-grade children of employees. “It’s the wave of the future,” Hubbard told the school board last night. “Its a win-win situation.” Hubbard went on to explain that the school is a good employee benefit, and it will help ease crowding in the local district schools. The program is thoug...

The Rebellious Black Artist Once a gritty alleyway and graffiti-draped artist playground, Lispernard Street in Lower Manhattan is now a luxury one-way block home to million-dollar listings, chic restaurants and popular art galleries. [Nice lead!] On a recent Tuesday evening, giggling millennials, modern moms and self-proclaimed art enthusiasts flocked there to the Untilted Space gallery to celebrate the eccentric black woman and multidisciplinary artist, Nicole Washington. Bopping down the licorice-colored winter asphalt, emerging artists from all walks of life moved feverishly in the same direction. Out of Brooklyn, were a sharply talented group of prominent female artist and curators. Often mistaken for ebony runway models, the enthusiastic and modish group came to meet and greet with like minds in the modern art world. The colorful trend-setting world of female artists, alternative creatives and black exhibitors was out in full force [or something] About 40 to ...