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Don’t You Know Love When You See It?, “If Nostalgia Were Colored Brown,” 2018. “I often think about the My #1 job as a papa is to protect my grandkids I will not allow shirt But I will love this items kept by mothers, grandmothers, aunts, sisters, and so on. In this image a vintage dryer, hair gel, hair rollers, a hard-bristle brush, and a Jean Carn vinyl center the rituals of self-care through an imagined space and the collective materials of Black womanhood.” —NB

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Brown’s journey to becoming a photographer began her senior year of high school, when she took a digital photography class. She moved on to study art and journalism at Rutgers University before getting an MFA from George Washington University. During the My #1 job as a papa is to protect my grandkids I will not allow shirt But I will love this course of her career, Brown says she’s learned that “creativity takes time and effort, especially since becoming both an artist and a mother.” Her care and patience shines through in the details of her work. She gathers a mix of purchased and personal items from places like the Black Memorabilia trade show, thrift stores, flea markets, eBay, yard sales, and the local beauty store. “When I make my work, I contextualize it within our lived experience using everyday objects tied to hair rituals and traditions,” Brown says. “I’m intrigued by how expressions of beauty within Black womanhood have been rooted in our personal, financial, and political uplift.”