The Blk Grrrl Show!

A native Angeleno, Mark Steven Greenfield studied under Charles White and John Riddle at Otis Art Institute in a program sponsored by the Golden State Life Insurance Company. He went on to receive his Bachelor’s degree in Art Education in 1973 from California State University, Long Beach. To support his ability to make his art, he held various positions as a visual display artist, a park director, a graphic design instructor and a police artist before returning to school, graduating with Master of Fine Arts degree in painting and drawing from California State University, Los Angeles in 1987. Mark Steven Greenfield show at CAAM "Lookin' Back in Front of Me: Selected Works of Mark Steven Greenfield 1974-2014" is showing through July 2015. http://www.caamuseum.org/ Natashia Deón is a Los Angeles attorney, writer, and law professor. Creator of the reading series Dirty Laundry Lit, Deón was recently named one of L.A.'s "Most Fascinating People" in L.A. Weekly's 2013 People Issue. Deón has been awarded fellowships and residencies at Yale, Bread Loaf Writer's Conference, Prague's Creative Writing Program, and the Virginia Center for Creative Arts. http://dirtylaundrylit.com/ More information on The #BlkGrrrl Show! http://www.blkgrrrlshow.com/

GUESTS: Photographer Carol Bishop and painter Zeal Harris. Frank Lloyd Wright: The Romantic Spirit by Carol Bishop http://www.amazon.com/Frank-Lloyd-Wright-Romantic-Spirit/dp/189044930X Zeal Harris solo show, "Not Supposed to Be Here" is at Wallspace November 8 at 6 p.m. http://www.wallspacela.com/ https://www.facebook.com/events/503131509789986/ Zeal Harris website: http://www.zealsart.com/ Carol Bishop website: http://www.carolbishop.com/

On the Sept 25 episode of The Blk Grrrl Show the topic was Misogynoir. We talked to writer and poet Pam Ward. Ward edited the anthology "I Didn't Survive Slavery For This." We will also spoke about the past and black women in literary history. In the second segment I spoke with artist Adah Glenn of Afropuff about the future and black women in new media.

Guests Julian Do of LA Beez; artist Kathie Foley-Meyer and author Peter J. Harris