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Podcast: The Institute of Black Imagination.
Episode: E8. Torkwase Dyson, Artist.
Description: Today’s episode is with painter, sculptor, and multi-hyphenated artist, Torkwase Dyson.
Born in Chicago Illinois, into a family embedded with scholars and artists of many forms, Torkwase found her artistic path while studying Sociology at Tougaloo College, later receiving her Bachelors of Fine Arts at Virginia Commonweath University and her Masters at the Yale School of Art. Her work is about the reimagining of black compositional thought, while exploring shape and form as it relates to black bodies in space. In Torwkase’s words, “The works are deconstructions of natural and built environments that consider how individu...