The Praise House Project encourages and facilitates creative collaboration and cultural exchange between artists of African descent throughout the Diaspora.
Through funds provided by the The Atlanta Global Research and Education Collaborative (AGREC), the Praise House Project provides travel and artistic assistance, presenting opportunities, and professional development and training for artists within our International Exchange Program bridging artists, activist, and historic preservationists between West Africa and Atlanta and the Southeast, in order to foster deeper connections to ancestral lands and descendant communities.
Renown hip-hop artist, Toni Blackman, invites Senegalese artists, Bidew Bou Bess to join her in a 30-day artist residency in Atlanta.
The Praise House Project is awarded funding from AGREC to support travel to costs for an international exchange between West African artists and Atlanta artists in order to work towards building a bridge between the US South the continent of Africa.
Bidew Bou Bess, from Senegal, visits the class of renown Jazz musician and Emory Professor, Gary Motley
Visiting the National Archives of The Gambia. Learning of their work to digitize this priceless collection of over 150 years of oral history.
Visiting Janjanbureh, in The Gambia, West Africa
Learning of their efforts to repurpose the historic slave dungeons as teaching museums.
From the past to the present
Learning from Atlanta archives
Through funds from. AGREC, Bubacarr Manneh of the Smiling Coast Foundation, from The Gambia, West Africa visits the city to learns best practices of Atlanta archives and historic preservation efforts. Here he is visiting the archival storage of the Micheal C. Carlos Museum and viewing an original Jacob Lawrence print.
