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Buckham Fine Arts Project announces new Writer In Residence program.

The Buckham Fine Arts Project, as known as Buckham Gallery, is predominantly known as a visual arts exhibition space in Flint. However it is BFAP’s mission to present high quality contemporary art, both visual and performance, for the enrichment of its surrounding communities. With the launching of the Writer In Residence program, BFAP is looking to tap Flint’s rich spring of contemporary literary arts. BFAP has also identified a lack of representation and is intentionally reaching out to BIPOC writers to be more accessible to a wider audience in our community.

BFAP’s new Writer in Residence program engages literary artists to respond to each of BFAP’s gallery exhibitions in their contemporary literary art form. Each residency will culminate in a publication of writing produced during the project. The selected literary artist will be awarded a honorarium for their work.


Buckham is pleased to announce the second Writer in Residence, Natasha Thomas. 

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Photo courtesy of Lyn Williams
“We are delighted to have the opportunity to collaborate with Natasha and promote her literary arts. Buckham is always looking to support artists while providing opportunities to engage with challenging contemporary art and experience new ways of looking and thinking,” explained Buckham Executive Director Michele Leclaire.
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Natasha Thomas is a writer, performance artist, political organizer, community strategist, and visual curator with 20 years of experience working in the fields of arts-activism, public administration, public health, holistic wellness, spirituality, and advocacy. She is the current founder/director of The Nadoma Center for Social Justice & Spiritual Transformation and the Genesee County Coordinator for the Michigan Organization on Adolescent Sexual Health. In both her personal and professional lives, she is guided by the values, principles, practices, and rituals of liberation movements and ancestral wisdom traditions.

Natasha Thomas
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Photo courtesy of Emily O. Photography, copyright 2021
BFAP’s first writer for the residency is Shea Phire Cobb, a.k.a. Phire Sis.

Shea Phire Cobb lives and works in Flint, Michigan, where she was also born and raised. She is an artist, mother, author, musician, and founder of The Sister Tour, a platform that promotes female artistry. She began her artistic career by performing poetry during children’s summer programs and organizing poetry showcases in her community. Her books of poetry include Travels in my Car: Dedicated to the Writers Freedom (2018), Honey Tea and Hibiscus: Reflective Heart Poetry (2018), and Ruby in The Rough: A Dedication to LaToya Ruby Frazier (2020), which she co-authored with Amber Hasan. She studied communications at the University of Michigan–Flint and Mott Community College. In 2014, she began an ongoing collaboration with LaToya Ruby Frazier focused on the Flint Water Crisis. With Frazier and The Sister Tour, Cobb has traveled across the country telling the story of her community and the Flint Water Crisis. She has led programs at, among others, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise in New York, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, where she also performed an original play, Surviving Womanhood.


In the news:
Flintside: Get to know Buckham Gallery's first Writer in Residence Link



Click to purchase "Observations" physical copy
Shea Phire Cobb
Click to purchase "Observations" digital download
Buckham Gallery is funded by the following organizations:
Generous support is provided by the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation. 

Our activities are sponsored in part by an award from the MICHIGAN ARTS AND CULTURE COUNCIL  and the NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS. 
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This program is sponsored by the Greater Flint Arts Council Share Art Genesee Grant Program made possible by the Genesee County Arts Education and Cultural Millage funds. Your tax dollars are at work!
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      • Heidi Brueckner
      • Craig Hinshaw
      • Michael Weigman
    • Early Summer Exhibitions >
      • Barriers & Preservers | Margaret Davis
      • Endless Endeavors | Benjamin Muñoz
    • Exhibition Opportunities >
      • 2023-2024 Season Call For Entry
      • BIPOC is The Theme
      • PRESENTATION GUIDELINES
    • 2021-2022 Exhibition Schedule
    • Selected Past Exhibitions >
      • BIPOC is The Theme! >
        • BIPOC Artists for Feature Exhibition
        • Viewing Room
      • Late Winter Exhibitions >
        • Dialectics and the Decommodified: The Spectres of Capital- Morgan Craig
        • Textures of the Southwest- Robert Huebel
        • All the Pretty Little Horses- Chris Waters
      • Small Talk >
        • Viewing Room
      • December Exhibitions >
        • Horizons | Emily Legleitner
        • Indexing Schizophrenia | Diane Zeeuw
        • Seeking Solace | Rebecca Zeiss
      • Black & White
      • Entropy >
        • Viewing Room
      • Late Summer Exhibitions >
        • Hyper-Tension: Matthew Owen Wead
        • Nigrescence Comics: Kenish Magwood
      • Summer Exhibitions >
        • Beastly Luster: Kelly Boehmer
        • No Dark In Sight: Bill Davis
        • Penchant: Devan Horton
      • Early Summer Exhibitions >
        • Selvage: Jim Arendt
        • At Home: Candace Compton Pappas
      • Subtle Shifts
      • Disrupted Realism
      • Late Winter Exhibitions >
        • Chad Erpelding: Gains and Losses
        • Deepanjan Mukhopadhyay: Appropriated Figure-Grounds
        • Jordan Vinyard: Summary of A Few Volts
      • JANUARY 2021 >
        • Karen Milito
        • Nancy Pennell
        • Linda Lou Woodruff
      • December 2020: United By One >
        • United By One: Allen
        • United By One: LaBret Einstein
        • United By One: Haylett
        • United By One: Hershman
      • November 2020: BAC Exhibitions >
        • A Climate Of Change: Viewing Room
        • Shadows: 2020 Buckham Print Exchange
      • October 2020: Serious Play >
        • Serious Play: Andy Hill
        • Serious Play: Timothy Kranz
        • Serious Play: Sifus J Thompson
      • September 2020: Dear Memory, >
        • Aj Cooke: Fragmented Place
        • Michele Leclaire
        • Lauren Scavo-Fulk
      • August 2020: Ineffable Benedictions >
        • Matthew Osmon: Private Insurrection
        • 0591: People First
        • Rachel Singel: Metamorphosis
      • July 2020: Verisimilitude
      • Feb. 2020: Eros and Thanatos >
        • Eros & Thanatos: Award Winners
      • Jan. 2020
      • November 2019 Exhibitions
      • Oct.2019 FEVER VESSELS >
        • Press Release: Fever Vessels
      • FIELD WORK: Sept. 2019
      • BIG CLAY - August 2019
      • Crush: July 2019
      • May 2019: Terre Voce
      • April 2019: Allegories to Anatomies
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      • Tommy Mintz, Nov. 2019
      • 2019 Smallidge Lecture
      • June 2019: Panel Discussion with John Dempsey, Guy Adamec, and Amy Gibas
      • May 4, 2019- Artist Talk with Stephen Halko and Nick Reszetar
      • April 13, 2019 ​Artist Talk and Deviant Life Drawing Session with Jeanine Leclaire
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