Community Connection: Artist Keisha Makonese
Keisha Makonese is a Denver-based visual artist whose work celebrates legacy, movement, and cultural storytelling through painting, mixed media, jewelry, and metal smithing.
Tree and Keisha Makonese talked about her love of the arts and her great-grandmother, who was an artist before her time. Keisha celebrates her legacy, movement, and cultural storytelling with painting, mixed media, jewelry & metal smithing. She wanted to become a ballerina, she loves how the figures embody grace, discipline, and strength. Along with vibrant works that honor women, joy, and lived experiences. All of her paintings don't have faces as a way for people who view her art to see people in their lives, like a sister, Uncle Joe, etc. We also talked about the artwork she has sold around the world.
Keisha's specialty is ballerina figures that embody grace, discipline, and strength, along with vibrant works that honor women, joy, and lived experience. Her artistic lineage traces back to her great-grandmother, Flora Carnell Lewis Washington, a black woman whose artwork was exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in 1939. This legacy continues to guide Keisha's work and belief in perseverance through creativity.
Produced by Weston Wilkins, Radio Multimedia Producer
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