3rd Art Residency Nairobi, Kenya

I spent roughly 2 months living in Kenya. To make writing about this more manageable I’ll split it into 2 parts. I’

Pechakucha Talk: Aligning Art with Purpose

I was asked to give a Pechakutcha Talk during my Karen Village Art Residency in Nairobi, Kenya. You can read more about my exp

2 Weeks of Autumn in New York

About a month ago I spent my last 2 weeks in the US visiting New York. Originally I planned to go for the F5 Fest motion graph

12 Hours in Egypt and 24 hours of struggle.

So I’m going to briefly skip my most recent US city to cut to the absolute dumpster fire that came with my leaving the c

DC Skate Summer

Spent a little over a month in DC. I absolutely love this city. Free museums, great skate scene, Jazz scene, walkable with pub

Eastbound Train to Houston

Here’s a video of my train and 2 week Houston experience. I considered using some Houston Rap for this reel but decide t

Prelude to “The Grand Adventure”

The first posting of my traveling artist journal. I’ve not really done the blog thing before, so this will be largely ex

PSTA Diversity Drives Us Bus Competition

Its hard to describe the feeling of seeing this. I’m still processing the fact my art piece “Routes to Revolution

2022 NorCal EMMY® AWARDS: 2nd, 3rd, and 4th wins!

Of my 7 nominations I was awarded 3 Regional Emmy® Awards this weekend! Super excited! For a number of imposter syndrome rela

2nd Art Residency Branson, MO

In April I blindly applied for an art Residency with the Art Gallery that represents me in Arkansas: Art Ventures NWA. This wa

Art Ventures and Theatre Squared Partner for Art Showcase

My Freedom series was prominently on display at Theatre Squared in Fayetteville Arkansas. Below is a news report and an articl

THE CITY CANVAS: A PAINT THE VOID RETROSPECTIVE

In January 2022, two years after the Paint the Void Murals started going up, we finally got the chance to show some of them of

10th Annual Art Swagger 1on1 with artist Donavon Brutus

Earlier in the month I did an interview with for Art Swagger LA supporting Free Arts with Roxanne Rose.

Lecture and Q&A with the Fort Smith Regional Art Museum

You can check out the lecture here:https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?ref=watch_permalink&v=325113979399690

Career interview on the Creative Class Podcast

I was recently interviewed by Meres J. Weche for the Creative Class Podcast about my career. Check it out below! I l

EMMY® AWARDS Nominated Haitian Artist Donavon Brutus joins Artnoise Culture Trip To Africa

Check out the Article Below https://taarifa.rw/nominated-haitian-artist-donavon-brutus-joins-artnoise-culture-trip-to-africa/?

Three 2021 NOR CAL EMMY® AWARDS Nominations

Exciting news, this year Three pieces I worked on were nominated for the 2021 NOR CAL EMMY® AWARDS. Two of which I lead the D

Featured in The Walt Disney Family Museum’s Conserving Nature Exhibit

Happy #Earthday. A few of my Antarctica photos and an illustration were included in The Walt Disney Family Museum

Embracing Our Differences 2021 Exihbit

It’s hard to describe the thrill of seeing your work go from a sketchbook to a small monitor to…this. The 2021 Emb

Local Exhibition Highlights Work, Stories of Black Artists

Here’s an article about Art Ventures NWA’s exhibit “Frame of Mind 2021” Sharon Killian, Joëlle S

2020 NorCal EMMY® AWARD Win!

We won! Incredibly good news at the end of another trying week. Over the weekend the NorCal EMMY® AWARDS were held remotely v

Nepal Art Teaching/Cultural Exchange

A couple weeks ago(2019) I returned to the Naimisharanya Kshetra school in Dhulikhel, Nepal I visited back in 2016. Got the op

Speaking at Afro Comic Con

I’ll be at AfroComicCon 2019 this weekend! Will be judging the Film Fest Friday and will have an art booth set up on Sat

1st Art Residency, Seventh Continent. Tasmania

This year as my 2.5 year contract with the California Academy of Sciences comes to a close I decided to apply to a 3 art resid

San Francisco Muni Bus Art

It has finally happened. Our artwork is live on San Francisco Muni Buses! I’ve got 8 artworks cruising around the city o

Drawing Penguins in Antarctica

Went to Antarctica over the holiday. Couldn’t pass up the chance to draw penguins live…even if it was on top of a