February 15 - March 20, 2023
From NorthPark Center:
“NorthPark Center is thrilled to announce a partnership with Kinfolk House and Talley Dunn Gallery to bring the story of Kinfolk House, Fort Worth’s new community art space, to the Dallas audience. The exhibition is a part of NorthPark Center’s rotating exhibition programming in collaboration with leading artists, art institutions, and community organizations.
Founded by internationally renowned Fort Worth-based artists Letitia Huckaby and Sedrick Huckaby, Kinfolk House is a nonprofit organization dedicated to uplifting the beauty, talent, and culture of its neighborhood. Housed in a 100-year-old home in the predominantly Black and Latino Poly neighborhood, Kinfolk presents collaborative exhibitions, events, and educational opportunities for visitors of all ages.
Through photographs and artwork, Kinfolk House: A Transformative New Community Art Space in Fort Worth tells the story of Kinfolk’s inaugural year. Learn about its history, the founders, Kinfolk’s first year of exhibitions, ways to engage with the organization, and future programming.
Kinfolk House: A Transformative New Community Art Space in Fort Worth will be on view at NorthPark Center from February 15 through March 20 and will be located on Level One near Nordstrom.
ABOUT KINFOLK HOUSE
Kinfolk House is a collaborative project space that inhabits a 100-year-old historic home, where community and art converge in the predominantly Black and Latina/e/o Polytechnic neighborhood in Fort Worth, Texas. Our goal is to uplift the beauty, talent, and culture of Poly and feed its creativity by offering collaborative exhibitions, events, and educational opportunities. Through partnerships with community-minded creatives and project-based artists, we will build outside the preconceived ideas of “what art is,” exploring the intersections of life, cultural pursuits, and artistry.
Sedrick Huckaby and Letitia Huckaby opened the doors of this historic space reimagined on the cornerstone of the creative power of Sedrick’s grandmother and previous homeowner, Hallie Beatrice Carpenter, known to her friends and neighbors as “Big Momma.” Her legacy inspires our understanding that creative pursuits exist beyond high art and academia.
Kinfolk House is a space built upon our inherited cultural knowledge and the richness of the Black American tradition passed down across nations, oceans, and generations. We’re woven together through individual threads of history that convey our very identity, emanating from Big Momma’s legacy, to Letitia’s ancestral homeland of Greenwood, Louisiana, Dr. McAnthony’s dream of creating something in a historically marginalized neighborhood so great that people from all over are drawn to it, to the improvisational intuition and fluid orchestration of quilt-makers in Gee’s Bend, and the many other artists, activists, doers, and thinkers who inspire us.
The term kinfolk speaks to family ties forged by blood. At Kinfolk House, all who walk through the doors become a thread in our family. Our desire is that each connection will craft a human patchwork of creativity, power, and culture, ensuring the Kinfolk legacy lives on for generations to come.”
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