Snippets of voice recordings, chain gang songs from Parchman Farm, Zora Neale Hurston's field recordings and Baltimore Club Music. Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle performed to this curated soundtrack at CAAM in conjunction with her solo show The Evanesced in 2017.

 In these dark times with The Orlando Massacre, the recent attack on the Istanbul airport and so many daily killings that are taking place in my hometown of Louisville, KY and all over the nation along with the shift in my art practice to begin making work about the 64,000 Black women who have disappeared in America, my heart has been very heavy. Watching the verdicts of the Freddie Gray trails are particularly heartbreaking because Baltimore taught me so much about being an artist, teacher, activist and healer. As an empath and a cha...

I am stationed in Lagos, Nigeria for about 7 more months for The Fulbright Fellowship for Sculpture. For my project I will be collaborating with students and faculty from The University of Lagos on the diasporic Kentifrica Project. 

In addition to working on the Fulbright I am also seeking inspiration from this bustling and complex geography to inform my next bodies of lifelong studio work. These bodies of work are brewing and will be inspired by my personal experiences navigating the geography of West Africa for the first ti...

A reflection upon the behind the scenes markmaking within The Uninvited Series in which Hinkle spends years repurposing her archive of skecthbooks in order to create work for the Uninvited Series.

Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle describes her journey within hegemonic art institutions concerning color and its usages that clashed with her traditional cultural traditions and the literal embodiment of color.