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Welcome to the first blog post! This blog will be used to bare my my inner thoughts, art projects, and things to come. If you vibin’ with me, leave a comment and let me know I’m making connections in the universe.

As you may have figured out while navigating my website, I go by Kendra Lee and I am a digital artist, born and raised in Austin, TX. I make it my mission to draw pieces inspired by black female representation. Why? Well, I remember growing up, having art dreams as a little girl, but I also remember not drawing black people as my subject matter. Every person I would draw from my imagination was of fair complexion. Ponder on that for just a bit… a black kid being so conditioned to only see the “status quo” that they couldn’t imagine drawing black people? It took me awhile to come to grips with the idea that my imagination lacked the capacity to even include people that looked like me in my art. When I got to college (TLU), I was fortunate to have a crop of professors who taught me everything I needed to know about how black people have had to navigate in American society. More importantly, they fed my curiosity to understand how black people have been programmed/condition throughout history.

After grad school, I was determined to have my art feature black people, now knowing about the systematic ways we’ve been conditioned to act in this society. I decided to focus on featuring black female experiences when creating art for myself.