The M'Dear Project

03/22/2025

M’Dear calls the name of… 🕊️🤍🕊️

Rest in paradise, Nona Faustine, the Brooklyn-bred photographer and visual artist whose work explored womanhood, identity, representation, and inconvenient truths through a deep examination of systemic racism and unacknowledged histories that impact Black lives.

In her “White Shoes” series (1st slide), she challenged the burdens placed on Black women by, as the The New York Times puts it, “revisiting locations with histories of enslavement and reimagining the body as a site of power.” By putting herself in their shoes, Faustine’s body of work did the supernatural; it became a vehicle for reclamation and restitution.

“The true lives of Black women in the United States, if not in the world, are not seen... I wanted to show our lives and who we are. We are very special. Not just because of our suffering but because of our beauty and strength. The reinvention and the creativity that oozes out. The bravery.” - Nona Faustine, Bomb Magazine

Brooklyn and the art world will miss Nona Faustine. Our hearts and prayers are with her daughter, extended family and friends.

❤️🖤💚

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03/09/2025

M’Dear Celebrates International Women’s Day! ✨📸✨

We’re celebrating with these 3 iconic women photographers who are continuing to expand the creative industry with their surreal, distinctive & powerful imagery.

Showcasing the many realities of those they capture, each one of these photographers use their lens to create an otherworldy feel that only begins to reflect their dedication to craft.

Kennedi Carter ()
Dana Scruggs () who was featured in ✨✨
Renell Medrano ()

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Head over www.photodom.blog to read more about these amazing trailblazers.

02/17/2025

The Great Alma Thomas - M’Dear’s Black HerStory 🖤

10/11/2024

B R O O K L Y N at treat coming to the main library! ✨✨✨

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Join us for the launch event for the 1619 Project: A Visual Experience Oct. 22 at the where I will be in conversations with and where we will open the exhibit of original art commissioned for the book. The event and exhibit is free and open to the public. That is why I chose the public library, so that anyone in the community can come and experience and join us in dialogue. I will also be signing books, which will be sold by . It’s going to be an amazing night. Come through, BROOKLYN. Register at link in bio. 📷 : Thee amazing

06/12/2023

Join Us! Kick off your Juneteenth celebrating with us for our M’DEAR SOUND BATH MEDITATION ✨ Get some spiritual sustenance, as we intentionally take time to realign and reclaim rest, in honor of M’Dear!
✨This Sat June 17th at 1pm on Governors Island at MoCADA Museum’s Abolition House 7A. Link below. See you Sat!

04/28/2023

https://mocada.org/mdear-the-black-maternal/

M'Dear: The Black Maternal is a multimedia exhibition featuring a wide breadth of rising women-identified artists whose works, which include paintings, photography, textile art, video, audio/oral pieces, and installations, honor the power of the great Mother—the Matriarch—the ever-present Black ...

03/31/2022

✨Calling all Black Women Artists✨

We have a New Date!!!✨✨✨

With great excitement, we are thrilled to share the upcoming HYBRID (virtual & in-house) capsule exhibition, The M’Dear Project premiering at the Museum of Contemporary African Diaspora Arts (MoCADA) in Brooklyn, New York JULY 7, 2022 running through SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

✨The M’Dear Project Art Submissions are now Open to multidisciplinary Black Women Artists until MAY 8, 2022.✨

Click on the link in the Bio for more info & submission instructions.

The M’Dear Project Is a HYBRID (virtual & in-house) multimedia capsule exhibition of paintings, sculpture, photography, textile art, video, audio/oral pieces and installations honoring the power of the Great Mother, the Matriarch, the Feminine present throughout the Diasporan community.



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03/31/2022

✨Calling all Black Women Artists✨

We got a New Date!!!✨✨✨

With great excitement, we are thrilled to share the upcoming HYBRID (virtual & in-house) capsule exhibition, The M’Dear Project premiering at the Museum of Contemporary African Diaspora Arts (MoCADA) in Brooklyn, New York JULY 7, 2022 running through SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

✨The M’Dear Project Art Submissions are now Open to multidisciplinary Black Women Artists until MAY 8, 2022.✨

Click on the link in the Bio for more info & submission instructions.

The M’Dear Project Is a HYBRID (virtual & in-house) multimedia capsule exhibition of paintings, sculpture, photography, textile art, video, audio/oral pieces and installations honoring the power of the Great Mother, the Matriarch, the Feminine present throughout the Diasporan community.



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