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The entrance to the West Sacramento Community Center at 1075 West Capitol Ave., the location of a Black History Month art exhibit, which runs through February. (Photo by Jacob Peterson)<\/p>\nBy Jacob Peterson<\/p>\n
The West Sacramento Department of Parks and Recreation is showcasing art by local Black artists in its Gallery 1075 space through February.<\/p>\n
\u201cThroughout the rest of the month people can come in anytime the community center is open \u2026 to just enjoy the pieces themselves,\u201d gallery curator Evan Hart\u00e9 said. \u201cThe art reception [on Feb. 12] though is going to be extra special because we\u2019re going to have the artists actually come out and talk with the community, get to know them and talk about their processes.\u201d<\/p>\n
One of the artists featured is Sacramento-based Danitta Nelson, who works on her art in-between taking care of her children and working as a program manager at a mental health care facility. Nelson said she loves to do 3D art where she can attach things to her illustrations, especially hair.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy biological father was an artist and my sister was an artist, but they don\u2019t do art anymore,\u201d Nelson said. She added that a brain injury from a car accident means her sister no longer creates art. \u201cSo I do it to try and keep it going for the family so it doesn\u2019t just die down.\u201d<\/p>\n
Nelson said she started actively pursuing presenting in galleries after hosting sip and paint events and selling her work, with one of her pieces being on display in Citrus Heights City Hall. She said she was excited to see her work presented at Gallery 1075.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m going to show African tribal masks, I\u2019m also going to show some art with a 3D touch like fake hair,\u201d Nelson said. \u201cIt\u2019s important to me because it makes me feel very good to have my work on display. Whether it sells or not it feels good.\u201d<\/p>\n
Another local artist featured at the event is Joyhn\u00e9 Geran. Raised in Sacramento, Geran said she got into quilting later in life, having read the book \u201cAmish: The Art of the Quilt\u201d by Robert Hughes and attending a show hosted by the East Bay Heritage Quilters.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen I walked in the door a young lady introduced herself and said, \u2018Would you like to join a quilt group?\u2019\u201d Geran said. \u201cI said, \u2018Well I don\u2019t know anything about quilting,\u2019 and she said, \u2018Well now\u2019s a great time to learn.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
The entrance to the West Sacramento Community Center at 1075 West Capitol Ave., the location of a Black History Month art exhibit, which runs through February. (Photo by Jacob Peterson)<\/p>\n
Geran said it took her some time to catch up to her peers, and it would be through that group that she first began showing her work in galleries. She said she was connected with Black History Month Art Show<\/a> by Cheryl Gleason, curator at The Mills Station Arts & Culture Center in Rancho Cordova, but didn\u2019t initially think the West Sacramento gallery would accept her work as the gallery generally exhibits illustrations and photography.<\/p>\n \u201cI was surprised and pleased, and I\u2019m grateful to be able to show my work,\u201d Geran said. \u201cI also think it\u2019s good for the community to see the diversity of work, as opposed to just seeing certain mediums.\u201d<\/p>\n Hart\u00e9 said the community center is celebrating Black History in a variety of ways, with the gallery being an important element in letting underrepresented artists share their work.<\/p>\n \u201cThe gallery itself is really an option to focus on these Black stories, Black creators, Black art, the kind of stuff we don\u2019t always get to highlight throughout the year,\u201d Hart\u00e9 said. \u201cThe whole purpose of the gallery is that we have this platform as a resource for these up and coming artists.\u201d<\/p>\n Gallery 1075 is located inside the West Sacramento Community Center at 1075 West Capitol Ave. The reception takes place from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 12, while the show will be on exhibit through Feb. 27.<\/p>\n This story was funded by the City of Sacramento\u2019s Arts and Creative Economy Journalism Grant to\u00a0Solving Sacramento<\/a>. Following our journalism code of ethics and protocols, the city had no editorial influence over this story and no city official reviewed this story before it was published. Our partners include California Groundbreakers, CapRadio, Hmong Daily News, Russian America Media, Sacramento Business Journal,\u00a0Sacramento News & Review<\/a>\u00a0and Sacramento Observer.\u00a0Sign up for our \u201cSac Art Pulse\u201d newsletter here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Jacob Peterson The West Sacramento Department of Parks and Recreation is showcasing art by local Black artists…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":173707,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[121,123,122],"class_list":{"0":"post-173706","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sacramento","8":"tag-sacramento","9":"tag-sacramento-headlines","10":"tag-sacramento-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173706\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}