Urgent Care for Urgent Times
Greetings Friends and Family! it has been a busy fall at The Colored Girls Museum. If you are planning on joining us for this new adventure in Colored Girl Land, Urgent Care: A Social Care Experience, we have two more Sundays on the calendar before we take our winter break on November 5th.

October 29th, we will have an artist talk at 3:00 by Inga Kimberly Brown (featured in this month’s Artist Spotlight). There are tickets available for all tours. On our finale on November 5th, tickets are sold out for the 1:00, 2:00, and 3:00 shows; there are still tickets available for the 4:00 show, if you act now!

Looking forward to seeing you!

Smokehouse
art by Inga Kimberly Brown
photo by Zamani Feelings

Inga Kimberly Brown is an oil painter with a fine arts education, and decades of study and practice. Her early influences include playing musical instruments in her childhood, working with wood with her father, and the swampy countryside of the eastern coast of North Carolina.

Who inspires you?
The inspiration for my work stems from my family. I use the stories of my family’s history, their experiences in life. as well as their racially mixed heritage, to speak about freedoms that I experience today. My inspiration comes from the stories of my grandmothers and my grandfathers, and giving validity to their struggles as racially mixed people, and those who were not racially mixed and were enslaved throughout the antebellum south. Those many family stories travel to Philadelphia, where my mother’s maternal family migrated from Georgia. I think of my late maternal grandmother, Mattie Beatrice Hicks-Minott, and her mother, who died at the young age of 24 years old in child birth, my great-grandmother, Marie Steel. I visualize them as beautiful young girls who were objects of man’s sexual desires before they knew themselves as women.

What are some other ideas, themes, artists, people who influence your work?
Francis Bacon, Sassafras and Cypress & Indigo by Ntozake Shange, and Kara Walker’s silhouettes inspiration.

Teatime in the Henhouse
art by Inga Kimberly Brown
photo Zamani Feellings

Why is The Colored Girls Museum important?
The Colored Girls Museum is important just by name alone. The name narrates the position of black women in the United States. The word colored, in its description, includes a ray of hues and complexions as well as hair textures, body shapes that are not limited to one example or description. The word “colored” is also a word used to describe a people that came from the African Diaspora in the United States, as well as other races, mixed into one culture. In the many different racial labels for blacks in the United States to describe themselves, or labels that others have used to describe blacks, the word colored says it all. The Colored Girls Museum is essential in surpassing female oppression, as well as the low self- esteem factor that glides along with the inherited dysfunction and family structure of the post slavery, black lash of post bellum Stockholm Syndrome that has been passed down from generation to generation as an anxiety disorder that negates how we cope and survive alongside racial oppression as well as female oppression.

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