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        • Empty Road, Great Tornado - Emmett Merrill
        • Nice Things for Nice People - Kate Snow
        • Recent Work - Michael Melet
      • November Exhibition >
        • Buckham Artist Collaborators
        • On Screen: A Showcase
      • 101 Artists
      • Ojichaagwan Vessels- Guy Adamec
      • Caution: May Contain Nudity >
        • Donovan Entrekin
        • Friends
      • Summer Exhibitions >
        • Heidi Brueckner
        • Craig Hinshaw
        • Michael Weigman
      • Early Summer Exhibitions >
        • Barriers & Preservers | Margaret Davis
        • Endless Endeavors | Benjamin Muñoz
      • 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
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Support BFAP's First WIR Publication

Buckham Fine Arts Project is pleased to announce its second Writer In Residence: Natasha Thomas.

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Photo courtesy of Lyn Williams

BFAP’s is pleased to announce our second Writer in Residence, Natasha Thomas.


Thomas will produce written components responding to each exhibition, plus additional content that will respond to topical issues and personal research. This collaboration will provide an opportunity for Thomas to engage with her interest in visual art and gain exposure for her literary arts, and engage Flint’s BIPOC community in a meaningful way.  BFAP is actively seeking to grow deeper ties within our community. Compositions and more to be compiled with exhibition programming in a publication at the season’s end, September 2022. 

“We are delighted to have the opportunity to collaborate with Natasha and promote her. 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.

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.

“In many ways, Buckham Gallery is emblematic of the city of Flint - small but mighty. Tenacious. Collaborative. Committed to being a space for both creativity and community. I love this about our city and I love it about Buckham Gallery. I am particularly excited about this project because it facilitates the natural alliance between words and imagery. Some of the most creative and transformative arts experiences I have had, have involved powerful and thought-provoking imagery paired with evocative and illustrative language,” said Thomas.

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. 

As the co-founder/former executive director of RAISE IT UP! Youth Arts & Awareness (RIU), she launched an award-winning nonprofit organization that promoted youth engagement, expression, and empowerment through performance, literary arts, and activism. RIU’s work has been featured  in Teen Vogue, National Public Radio (NPR), PBS NewsHour, NowThis, Huffington Post, Hyperallergic , Mashable, Vulture, Yahoo , Revolt, and more.

In 2012, the Detroit Pistons recognized her work and through their Come Together Foundation, honored her as one of their first Community Impact Awardees, granting  $25,000 to support her work. She received the The Sybyl Atwood Award for Servant Leadership and was awarded a residency at the Windcall Institute. 

As the former Regional Organizing Director for NextGen America, she served as part of a statewide leadership team of directors and field organizers who mobilized on 61 college campuses, registered 39,000 voters, engaged 1,650 volunteers, and knocked on 125,000 doors to turn out historic youth vote numbers in the 2018 Michigan midterm election. She directly managed the team of organizers who registered 60% of the new voters in Genesee County and 30% of the new voters in Saginaw County in Michigan in 2018. Her work was featured in Blavity.

In 2019, she partnered with world-renowned cellist and advocate, Yo-Yo Ma and the University of Michigan Musical Society (UMS) to host the “Culture, Community, & Resilience - Day of Action. She also co-produced and curated the project finale, which featured Yo-Yo Ma sharing the stage with local artists for a free community concert. Her work on this project was featured in Broadway World. In 2021, Natasha collaborated with Yo-Yo Ma, UMS, Tunde Olaniran, and other Michigan artists for the Travel Guide to Talking Hearts project. 

In 2021, Natasha partnered with Al Gore’s Climate Reality Project and served as speaker/presenter at the Climate Reality Leadership Corps Global Training. 

As a writer, Natasha has contributed to digital publications and academic journals including The Hollywood Reporter, Kalfou: A Journal of Comparative and Relational Ethnic Studies, The Body is Not an Apology (TBINAA), and more. She also wrote the foreword for IMAGN – Increasing Minority Awareness of Genetics Now, a report co-sponsored by the Black Congressional Caucus and John Hopkins University Genetics and Public Policy Center.   

Natasha has performed for Harry Belafonte’s inaugural Many Rivers to Cross Music & Social Justice Festival, #SayHerName: An Evening of Arts hosted by the African American Policy Forum, Busboys & Poets, and a number of venues and events merging performance art and activism. As a performer and speaker, she’s shared the stage with Stevie Wonder, bell hooks, Janelle Monae, Andra Day, Chris Rock, Public Enemy, Musiq Soulchild, Dave Matthews, Carlos Santana, Angela Davis, Ryan Coogler, Robert Redford, John Legend, and more. 

Through the African-American Policy Forum, Natasha has worked directly under the tutelage of renowned black feminist & legal scholar, Dr. Kimberle’ Crenshaw, a pioneer in critical race theory and mother of the term “intersectionality.” She was also a member of the Black Women’s Roundtable Delegation at the White House, which spoke to the critical issues facing Black women and girls.

Natasha enjoys reading, yoga, meditation, hearthcrafting, interior design, tarot, officiating weddings, and spending time with her 3 kids, 2 cats, and myriad house plants.

Flint Beat: 
​Buckham Gallery names new Writer in Residence Link

Flintside: 

Introducing Buckham Gallery's 2nd Writer in Residence Link
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. 
​

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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  • Home
  • Exhibitions
    • January Solo Exhibitions >
      • Crawl Space | Guen Montgomery
      • Portraits of Home | Whitney Lea Sage
      • Interior Visions: Domestic Sphere | Stephanie Serpick
    • In Conversation
    • Exhibition Opportunities >
      • Small Works Exhibition
      • Teeth & Hair
      • PRESENTATION GUIDELINES
    • 2022-2023 Exhibition Schedule
    • Selected Past Exhibitions >
      • Early Winter Exhibitions >
        • Empty Road, Great Tornado - Emmett Merrill
        • Nice Things for Nice People - Kate Snow
        • Recent Work - Michael Melet
      • November Exhibition >
        • Buckham Artist Collaborators
        • On Screen: A Showcase
      • 101 Artists
      • Ojichaagwan Vessels- Guy Adamec
      • Caution: May Contain Nudity >
        • Donovan Entrekin
        • Friends
      • Summer Exhibitions >
        • Heidi Brueckner
        • Craig Hinshaw
        • Michael Weigman
      • Early Summer Exhibitions >
        • Barriers & Preservers | Margaret Davis
        • Endless Endeavors | Benjamin Muñoz
      • 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
      • 2019 Exhibitions
    • Art Money
  • Events
    • Calendar
    • B.Y.O.C.
    • Open Mic
    • Flint ARTWALK
    • Cider & Slides
    • Past Events
    • Past Artist Talks >
      • 2022 Smallidge Lecture
      • Jan. 10, 2020: Artist Talks with Ardea Thurston-Shaine and Dominique Chastenet de Gary
      • 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
  • PROJECTS
    • BFAP: On Screen >
      • On Screen Artists
      • FAQ
    • BFAP: Interns
    • BFAP: Writer in Residence >
      • Bob Campbell
      • Natasha Thomas
      • Shea Phire Cobb
    • Collaborators at Karmanos
    • Emerging Artist with UM-F >
      • My Proulx
  • About Buckham
    • Mission Statement
    • Board and Staff
    • Buckham Arts Collective
    • Buckham Community Membership
    • Founders Feature >
      • FOUNDERS FEATURE: THOMAS NUZUM
      • Founders Feature: Sam Morello
      • Founders Feature: Ken Kinyon
      • Founders Feature: John Dempsey
      • FOUNDERS FEATURE: GUY ADAMEC
    • History
    • 2021 Annual Report >
      • 2020 Annual Report
    • News/Press >
      • Archives
    • BAC 2022-2023 >
      • 2022-23 BAC Renewal
      • Bylaws
      • Policies
  • SUPPORT
    • 2022-2023 Annual Fund
    • WIR Support
    • Community Membership
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  • Visit
    • CONNECT
    • Covid-19 Safety Plan