Published 1:00 PM Top: Jalen Arthur, Liam Archer, Will Hammond; Bottom: Afua Nyantakyi, Glen Waters, Kendall Bryant Illustration by Max Zhang
To call the present moment in pop culture a “renaissance in Black art” would be a given. On silver screens and through radio waves, between stanzas, and, yes, in even TikTok shorts, Black artists are and always have been cultural vanguards, even while powerful institutions have failed to paythemproper dues. In a year stocked with violence, loss, and grief, Black art has been a lightning rod for joy and mourning alike.
At Georgetown, too, the Black creative community thrives on, producing vibrant art on a campus much more designed for white consultants than Black artists. As singers, actors, poets, dancers, rappers, writers, or something else entirely, these creatives have developed unforgettable, heartful work.
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A sneak peek into Black Theatre Ensemble’s spring season
A sneak peek into Black Theatre Ensemble’s spring season Courtesy of / BTE Black Theatre Ensemble shares its thoughts about adapting to a virtual landscape, as well as its plans for the spring season.
Black Theatre Ensemble, like all theater groups on campus, has been faced with the difficult task of reimagining theater as a digital medium. Unlike other theater troupes, however, BTE is a unique, artistic social group on campus dedicated to celebrating Black art and culture.
“We’re here to be a resource,” Kay Kemp, CC ’22, BTE’s executive playwright and art director, said in an interview with Spectator. “We’re here to be teachers and to be a group of people you can talk to on campus and make friends. . We would love to have perfect productions everyone would but we are not solely focused on the product, we’re more focused on the process.”