Throw Back…. When We Were Kids

I was thinking today about  being 48 and what it was like to be  a child again. When we were kids we made the best of what we had. I can recall long hours  of playing games, dolls, cops and robbers, and watching TV.  On rainy days when we were stuck in the house we …

Donald McKayle…. Legend

While researching info about African-Americans  on the Chain Gang I ran across this dance piece by Donald McKayle. I was taken with the piece so I started researching more about him. There are so many great legendary people in the black community that go unknown. Our history is deep and being made very day by …

How I Got Over…. Excerpt

How I Got Over By Janie McGee  Published 2010                        by Black Revival Studio Amazon 7.00 Plus Shipping A story of a Marmalade, a  19 year girl coming of age in the summer of 1932. She is trying to leave on the train that summer to go to Harlem to become a artist. This is a …

Copacetic…

Copacetic – Bill Bojangles Robinson got the nickname “Bo jangles” from “jangler,” meaning contentious, and invented the phrase “Everything’s Copacetic,” meaning tip-top. Many years ago living in Columbus, Ohio my husband was Vice President of an organization that worked with  the Lincoln Theater. It is a historical theater  located in  what once known as the “Blackberry …

In My House… There is Gospel House!

“Raise a song and strike the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the lute” Psalm 81:2 Gospel House! I got a call from my son last week asking me about a piece of art I had done in my series Church Lady. He said  he saw a podcast that had my art featured on it. He …

The Preaching Tree

The Preaching Trees is a collection of artwork by Artist Janie McGee depicting the Black experience in American. This colorful Book of art showcases her work over the last 31 years. The Preaching Tree shows the struggle, joys, faith, and survival of Black Americans. The artwork recreates history with emotions, and imagination in many different …