Author: rodneyna
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Graduation and Next Steps
So it has finally happened. the slow burn of completing grad school has culminated into a weekend’s festivities of Shreveport’s Bed and Breakfast stays, LSU Shreveport visits, Shreveport Restaurant Week, Walking across the stage hearing cheers from family and friends and a weekend soiree of well wishers and loved ones. This has been the slowest…
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Evidence of Presence: Value Added Property Exhibition
Artist Statement Black Heritage Gallery 809 Kirby Street, Suite 207 Rodneyna Hart Evidence of Presence – Value Added Property Environment: a society in which I simultaneously add (educated artist) and decrease (black woman) value. The purpose of this series is to acknowledge and dispel the decreased value. * The household servant’s lunch dish and utensils,…
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Momentous
I am overjoyed to share that I finally completed my coursework for graduate school. Normally this is something I am shouting from the rooftops but today, I am pensive. So what’s next I hope that increased wealth is in my future. That I focus on all the things I have been neglecting, namely my health,…
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Proverbial & Penelope The Toast of the Town – June 2, 2022
Driving into the busy shopping center at the corner of Airline and Antioch, I was wrapped with anticipation for this meal. Walking into Proverbial Wine Bistro, you first experience its modern yet comfortable atmosphere. I sat at the bar and sipped on their lovely happy hour white. It was an Italian Chardonnay, Friulan 2020 Frico…
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Ideal 2.0
Ideal, focuses on the “ideal” depiction of black women through media and how that message is internalized by those who view it. Clothing, styling, sculptures by Rodneyna Hart. Photography by Jeremy Boykins, Models Luna Malbroux, Madina Perrin, and Deanna Auzenne
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Ideal 1.0
These images were used to make a magazine for the first installation of Ideal. When producing artwork, I develop themes of perceptions and representation, with no medium limitations. The latest completed series, Ideal, focused on the “ideal” depiction of black women through media and had how that message is internalized by those who view it.…
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Evidence of Presence – Value Added Property
Artist Statement Black Heritage Gallery Lake Charles, Louisiana Rodneyna Hart: Evidence of Presence – Value Added Property Environment: a society in which I simultaneously add (educated artist) and decrease the (black woman) value. The purpose of this series is to acknowledge and dispel the decreased value. * The household servant’s lunch dish and utensils, destroyed…
Rodneyna Hart, MBA 