Rooted In Impact: 2025 Art Expo Black History Showcase

By The interfineArt Group and Jean-Jacques Stephen Alexis

Fifty years. A lifetime, a legacy, a story still unfolding. For half a century, the Urban League has been a pillar of strength in our community, shaping lives, opening doors, and carrying forward the torch of progress. Now, as we honor this milestone during Black History Month, we do so not just with words, but with art, bold, unyielding, and alive.
Forty artists. Forty collectors. Forty visions, bound together in celebration. Each brushstroke, each sculpture, each carefully curated piece speaks to the journey of a people who have turned struggle into strength, survival into beauty. This book is not just a catalog of art; it is a testament to resilience, to memory, to the power of creation as resistance.
Modern Afro-Caribbean art is more than an aesthetic, it is a voice. A voice that echoes the rhythms of Africa, the soul of the Caribbean, and the realities of Black life in the modern world. It is history painted in vibrant hues, sculpted in defiant forms, woven with the threads of our ancestors' dreams. It is a bridge between past and present, between what was, what is, and what will be.
To create this book was to honor that voice. To capture the spirit of those who came before us and celebrate the ones shaping our future. This is our love letter to the artists who make us see, to the collectors who preserve our stories, and to the community that continues to rise. So, turn the page. Feel the movement, the depth, the soul. This is more than art, it is us.

Welcome. Celebrate. Remember. Continue.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0F25SFTYQ
• ISBN13: 9798311454322
• Release Date: March 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 90 Pages
• Weight: 0.39 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"