Black Apparel Arts
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- The Black Apparel Arts Challenge on Instagram to encourage artists to reimagine and add to the fashion history of apparel arts illustrations.To date there are over 1000+ posts filling the hashtag with art in almost every medium. Now I am teaming up with Jason Raish to create The Fashion Institute of Technology Black Student Illustrator Award to empower future artist to tell diverse stories.
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The Fashion Institute of Technology Black Student Illustrator Award
A Dandy Wellington and Jason Raish collaboration. 100% of proceeds donated to The FIT Black Student Illustrators Award fund. These timed editions are available for 1 week only, never to be printed again (edition size determined by final sale number). Sales open Oct 9th @12:00pm EST and close Oct 16th @12:00pm EST. www.jason-raish-illustration.myshopify.com/
These $1,000 no-strings-attached awards will be given to Black student applicants displaying artistic merit and financial need graduating from New York’s Fashion Institute of Technology BFA illustration program. Recipients can do as they please with the award money as there’s no one way to enrich yourself as an artist. Recent data from The Illustrators Survey shows that 3% of the illustration industry is Black. Our goal is to help Black students bridge the gap between graduation and professional success so they can be seen, heard, and shape the narrative of this industry they are so underrepresented in.
If you want to make an individual donation please go to www.fitnyc.edu/give and be sure to use the drop down menu to select the Black Student Illustrators Award. There is an option to type in a custom donation amount and it is a 501(c)(3) organization.
All the accounting and final $ amount of proceeds will be transparently and publicly shown and the final edition size announced.
Black Apparel Arts
Apparel arts was originally a trade magazine launched in the early 1930s and used by fashion buyers to decide what to stock in their stores. It’s illustrations featured men dawning outfit combination for a variety of occasion, temperatures and activities. It’s basically a “how to” guide on classic mens dress of the 1930s and ‘40s. In 1957, as industry trends shifted, it was rebranding as Gentlemen’s Quarterly or GQ and evolved into the magazine we know today however lovers of early styles still look to Apparel Arts illustrations for inspiration.
Though I always collected these illustrations for the clothes, the lack of diversity in the images wasn’t lost on me. Given the history of most westernized countries it’s to be expected that black people would be depicted, if at all, as maids or porters in these illustrations, as was true with most advertising pre-1970. Though Apparel Arts was for the buyer the illustrators had the, generally white, customers in mind, but it didn’t have to be.
Black Apparel Art, that little idea on a Sunday became a rallying cry for artist to diversify their work by looking to the past and fashioning it for the present; and boy did they deliver! All of a sudden artist from all over the world were using the hashtag to display new works featuring black subjects. Illustrations came from England, Canada, Switzerland, France, Italy, Estonia, Germany, Thailand, The Netherlands, Japan and all over the United States. Some were inspired by artists like Fellows and Leyendecker, others pulled from Fashion Plates of the 1800s and others still were original acts of creativity. Some artist had been portraying people of color in their work but many of the artists had never drawn or at least never posted a person of color on their feed. What was it about the challenge to inspired all artists to act?
Featured Artist
Agnes Barton-Sabo
@BettyTurbo
Alex Barrow
@AlexMaglalangBarrow
Alice Cao
@AliceCaoIllustration
Asia Ellington
@AsiaDraws
Briana Bailey
@Jewelthief13
Caitlin Rain
@caitlinrain_art
Damsel At Arms
@DamselAtArms
Lauren
@Coppertop.ink
Tamara Turner
@TigerEyeclay
Check out the fundraiser link!
The link isn’t an actual link. Though, I was able to access the site through Instagram.
Where is the link? I’d like to donate.
Favor: please use letter caps on hashtags (BlackApparelArts vs blackapparelarts) so screen readers can read them properly. Let's be accessible as well in our diversity! ❤️
Hi there, I apologize if the experience was unpleasant. I've attempted to fix the problem. I hope it's better on your end.
@@DandyWellington No need to apologize. Just sharing the info for anyone who reads it. I love this whole effort and this partnership. Thank you for making it happen.
@@asharsingh it helped me, thank you.
Such an important topic and project, thank you Dandy!
Donated to the scholarship!
This is just the best.
I feel it's so easy to take the importance of representation in popular media for granted, and I'm sure some POC hadn't consciously considered this either, the historical representation, or how it could be retrospectively revised.
What you've done here is amazing, Dandy. 👑🎩🙌🏻
This is completely amazing. Thank you to @TheClosetHistorian for directing me to your channel. I am so excited to share this further, what a necessary idea. Thank you Dandy.
This challenge has been really amazing! I have found some wonderful artists and have been really inspired and uplifted by the beautiful things they have created. It's one of my favorite things to come from instagram EVER! Thanks for thinking it up!
Also...totally loved the editing on this video. Really engaging and enjoyable :)
Thank for being so supportive! It has been great to see you interacting with the hashtag and now the account!
I've been meaning to do this challenge since you first talked about it but I haven't got around to it 🙈🙈, these two videos on #blackapparelarts gave me the reminder that it's time to finally do it~~~
Looking forward to your contribution!!
Absolutely wonderful, LOVE what you guys are doing, gonna go share it right away and as someone who truly believes in diversity and inclusion, because for me that's ALWAYS been normal, I think it should be the true "NEW NORMAL" everywhere and on every level!!!... BRAVO!👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
So beautiful. Dandy...thank you. I'm so inspired by everyone's work and story. ❤
I came for the vintage fashion, and am staying for culture awareness. Thank you, Bernadette.
Fantastic video, and great featured artists. Interesting to look at the transition from student to working professional where help may be needed too to put more diverse voices out there! It was such a fun project to take part in, seeing everyone's contributions too. Always fab videos from you :) I hope you raise a lot in the sales!
Definitely going to try this challenge! I do have a close friend who’s half African American and White and she’s so expressive with her outfits I’m certainly getting the inspirational to ask her to be my model and do some illustrations. And I do have a some pattern illustrations that I can play with. Thank for the inspiration Dan there certainly needs to be more representation. I’m also sending this video to my classmates so they can get inspiration too.
This makes me so happy!
I really love this initiative - maybe I’ll submit something of my own if I’m feeling brave, even if I’ve never posted my art online before
StudioCanal is in pre-production on a Josephine Baker biopic. Ms. Baker, as you know was an American born French citizen. She was decorated by President De Gaulle for her Resistance work with them Legion d'Honeur. Before WWII she entertained thousands and wore cutting edge clothing. I'm just hoping that the Costume designer sketches amazeball drawings. Oh and Ms. Baker was Black.
Stepping into the fray on this... Its always good to see more inclusion for everyone regardless of there ethic origins. I certainly believe that we all have talents that should be celebrated and I take my hat off to all these fine artists creating these fine illustrations. As we move forward through this century I really hope and pray that we all live in peace and harmony together as humanity.
Dandy...are you familiar with John Bunkley? The two of you should know each other!
Wow... that 79% vs 3%... That's the industry I want to break into and I feel so angry at the unjustness >:(
I really appreciate hearing the whole story of the #blackapparelarts challenge as I’ve been following it. I wanted to submit a piece of artwork but chickened out because people made such gorgeous work I just couldn’t.
Reinvigorating the styles, not the values. Great.
Warmest regards Jennie
This is so fantastic! The pieces are just beautiful and such a great cause.
the production of your videos are so superb!!! what a beautiful video
this burgundy and marigold combo is superb.
Realising that some of the joy from these beautiful illustrations comes from the fact that they are novel to me, says a lot. It’s great to see representation & diversification as an outcome, but the inspiration you fire up within people is thrilling! There is so much energy, talent and passion in these art pieces.
The work you are doing is incredible! ❤️❤️❤️
Just found your channel. Great stuff
This way way too fantastic!
dandy, you're a chad
#MakeItBlack
Hurray! This is wonderful!!!
Thank you for watching!!
New to your channel and so happy to be here!
These pieces are all so gorgeous!
❤️