Opening Reception: Thursday, October 24 | KCAI Gallery | 5 p.m. - 7 p.m.

The Trinity represents the black family. The strength and power that comes from unified black love is transformative. I created this piece to bring focus on the beauty of family, the mother, father, and child. Together learning, growing, and building with each other. The trinity of father, mother and child is divine and sacred and deserves to be honored. So with this piece, I honor you. Warren Stylez Harvey

Warren ‘Stylez’ Harvey was born and raised in Kansas City, Missouri. Warren also referred to as “Stylez” (an alias used to denote his uniqueness) has enjoyed creating art from a very young age. Warren works predominantly as a painter, using acrylic paint to illustrate his journey. He creates to inspire and uplift himself and others. His practice extends beyond the canvas to include photography, dance, poetry, and inspirational speaking. His works have been showcased at various events in the Kansas City Metro area and he has worked with local business owners to create works for their offices. This includes Kansas City Foot Specialists in Overland Park, Uzazi Village, Ruby Jeans, BLM mural on 63rd and Troost and The Westridge Art Gallery and Event Space. Warren Harvey lives by the mantra “I Am That I Am.” and resides proudly in Kansas City, Missouri. warren-harvey.com

Uzazi Village is a nonprofit organization in Kansas City dedicated to the deconstruction of anti-Black healthcare systems and the re-construction of equitable and just systems of care for Black and Brown childbearing families and communities. www.uzazivillage.org

Our intentionally just and reparative ‘adjacent models of care’ work to restore health, vitality and joy to communities of color during the perinatal period. Through the marriage of ancestral knowing, creativity and innovation, we imagine and create systems of care that celebrate our ways of being and respect cultural and community wisdom. Uzazi Village

The Trinity is done in collaboration with Uzazi Village and Founder/Executive Director, Hakima Tafunzi Payne. Ms. Payne holds a bachelor’s degree in nursing and a master’s degree in nursing education. She is also an alumna of the Kansas City Art Institute. This manifestation and reproduction shifts The Trinity image from a commissioned mural inside Uzazi Village to an expressive flaglike banner in the public realm on the campus of the Kansas City Art Institute.

Hakima Tafunzi Payne is the creator of the Village Doula Program (a community-based home visiting doula program), Chocolate Milk Café, (a breastfeeding support group for Black families), the Village Circle, an Afro-centric group prenatal care model, and Culturally Congruent Care (an anti-racist medical education curriculum). She speaks nationally on the topics of Black maternal and infant health. She works tirelessly to make birth safer, the village healthier, and to promote anti-racist care models for African-American families. Ms. Payne is the subject of two documentaries, “Sister Doula” and “Pregnancy and Prejudice.”

Special thanks to Tovah Tanner at Uzazi Village for coordinating this project, and all of the other Uzazi Village staff for making this possible. And to the project photographer, Tyrell Drummer.

BannerSpace is a new outdoor installation platform in the middle of the KCAI campus. Accessible to the public and campus community it serves as a space to engage students, local/national/international artists, designers, and writers. The presentation format invites aesthetics of temporality, slogan, flag, declaration, score, display, poetics, and conversations with nature as BannerSpace evolves and rotates with each season, considering these natural cycles with every iteration.