42 Social Club is pleased to be a part of “Black Love Blooms” a social action artwork by Queens NY based artist Brianna Harlan.

*NOTE: Special thanks to The Lyman Allyn Museum for hosting an artist talk and to the Ministry of Awe for donating flowers to make this event possible.

    BLACK LOVE BLOOMS
    
BRIANNA HARLAN

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

42 Social Club is pleased to partner with Public Art For Racial Justice Education and the Lyman Allyn Museum to bring Brianna Harlan to New London.

Harlan’s revolutionary work Black Love Blooms, a social action that is set on loving Black people as they are, where they are. This work breaks down racial stereotypes and how they affect the daily lives of Black people and the communities that hold them through gentle and soft offerings.

In Black Love Blooms local businesses and grass-roots organizations donate flowers and love notes for Black community members to gift to Black people in public. Audiences are brought to an awareness of their own role in the systemic negative impact of stereotypes and what it is like to reverse them with acts of love.

This work was performed at the New London Dream Market (an arts and farmers market in New London CT) during the weekend of September 25, 2021. There was a subsequent artist talk on October 7th hosted by the Lyman Allym Museum and made possible with the generous support of CT Humanities.

Special thanks to the Ministry of Awe for donating flowers.

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Brianna Harlan is a multi-disciplinary artist who uses community intervention and re-contextualized objects to inquire-intervene on how social norms and sociopolitical dynamics affect health, intimacy, selfhood, and community.