Charleston Spotlight: Charleston Poet, Painter and Photographer Georgia Nubia – Learn more about this beautiful local talent and absorb her love through her words and vision
“I closed my eyes to clear my thoughts of you, only to realize I had painted a beautiful picture.” – Georgia Nubia
We had the fortunate opportunity to see Georgia perform on Wednesday at The Purple Buffalo and we were taken back by her passion, transparency, and beautiful verse. We wanted to share a little more about one of Charleston’s beautiful souls.
Meet Georgia Nubia, poet, painter and photographer.
A creative visionary in her words…
The Poet
I took the leap of faith and jumped into my dreams of poetry. I have been excelling since and now perform and host several events monthly. It’s not the easiest road traveled, it’s actually quite rocky but it’s so worth it. So if you’re reading this and you have a gift, “Work Your Gift”
The Painter
In my search of healthy ways to cope with past experiences, anger, and life in general, I found a love for painting and realized it’s another way of self-expression to the artistic soul. My paintings are inspirational and surrounded around positivity because it is extremely easy to get caught in the negative so we need a daily reminder to be positive.
The Photographer
I am Social Fly Photography, along with my other services, I am a photographer also, I specialize in family portraits, I believe heavily in unity and your family being your first team, I feel real family photos are some of the simple things to help with C.H.A.N.G.E
Feature Poem – Black Artistry
From the way that we walk to the way that we talk
From the way we dress and gain underdog success
There’s an art to being black and it’s something we’re proud to express
It’s black artistry.
It’s you and me
It’s black expression.
It’s what the world don’t want us to see
It. Is. Black. Artistry.
We are what some may call the shiz-no-eee
And going black in the past, because of them
Because of them I can be me
Because of them I am free to be part of this black artistry legacy cause you see Gordon, gordon blessed me with a stupid trigger finger and a sharp eye
Leaving a photography legacy for generations even after me
And then he took some words
Some pronouns, adjectives, and verbs
And doubled the art in his heart
That’s how he made his mark
And now
I’m making my mark
Just like Augusta Savage did when she sculpted the harp
I’m just sculpting art work better known as poetry and it’s not just for me
It’s the black artistry
I’m trying to tell y’all
It’s for you and me
Cause our ancestors, our ancestors created this savagery for us to supersede this thing called a legacy
And if you didn’t know nw
It’s black expression cause color is life
And Alma Thomas told us that when she decided to teach the kids and keep painting and rearranging the history of blacks.
And to take it back again
I’m talking wayyyy back to when
Sojourner asked. Ain’t I a woman?
Didn’t she paint the perfect picture?
And now here I am
The birth of her words
For I
Am a proud
Black Woman
Pure walking black Artistry
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