Creatives Making Moves: Episode 30
Creatives Making Moves podcast spotlights passionate black women artists and creatives who are making bold moves as entrepreneurs.
April 8, 2021 by Victoria
#30: Breaking Norms in Art
This week meet Nsenga Knight, an interdisciplinary artist and entrepreneur based in Egypt whose work includes geometric drawings, text paintings, prints, and photographs.
Nsenga’s upbringing as a first-generation Black American Muslim informs her work as she makes critical contributions to conversations on Black America, politics, culture, and Islam in the 21st century. Nsenga is a force to be reckoned with having received numerous grants including the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant and exhibited work at the Drawing Center New York, Project Rowhouses, Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Art, and PS1 MoMA among others.
Join us as we discuss how she’s navigating the art industry as a black woman, her strategy to find art collectors, and how she’s building a sustainable creative business based on her own rules.
Check out highlights in this episode!
3:56 - How Nsenga started her creative path.
12:39 - How Nsenga balances building a business and maintaining her art practice.
26:37 - What drives Nsenga.
33:22 - What challenges has Nsenga faced as a creative entrepreneur, and how did she overcome them?
Nsenga’s links:
IG: @nsengaknight
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