{"id":59818,"date":"2017-12-04T17:11:09","date_gmt":"2017-12-04T16:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/?p=59818"},"modified":"2017-12-04T17:11:09","modified_gmt":"2017-12-04T16:11:09","slug":"kimberley-drew-museum-mammy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/kimberley-drew-museum-mammy\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing the Blog You Want to See in the World: An Interview With Kimberly Drew"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\" Images: Kimberly Drew.<\/p>\n

As part of \u201cInfluence Now\u201d, a series exploring the role of the \u201cinfluencer\u201d on contemporary culture, we interviewed five people whose work has shaped and influenced their fields in various ways. \u201cInfluence Now\u201d will appear in SLEEK 57;\u00a0subscribe to Sleek here.<\/a><\/span><\/em>
\nExplore the rest of the \u201cInfluence Now\u201d series<\/i>: Goth Shakira \/\u00a0<\/a>Jerry Saltz<\/a><\/span>\u00a0\/\u00a0<\/span><\/a>Emily Segal \/\u00a0<\/a>Gabriel Held<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

She\u2019s been profiled by The New Yorker<\/span>, interviewed Solange at Coachella and was named one of Teen Vogue\u2019s “Future Icons”. But ask Kimberly Drew what her favourite moment has been since she started her wildly successful Tumblr, Black Contemporary Art (BCA), and she enthusiastically talks about the time she found out that a student volunteer printed out pages of her blog and used it to engage with incarcerated men and women. \u201cThere are so many ways in which the blog is moving around the world that I can\u2019t even see,\u201d she says. \u201cThat\u2019s when you reach true success with these digital projects. The value doesn\u2019t have to be placed on follower count.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\" Peter Saul, “Quack Quack, Trump, 782”, Image: Kimberly Drew<\/p>\n

BCA started life as a way for Drew to continue the education she began with her sophomore year internship at The Studio Museum in Harlem, an institution dedicated to exhibiting artists of African descent. \u201cI started a blog because I was looking for one like mine and I didn\u2019t find one that existed,\u201d she says. Drew immediately reached out to some like-minded friends and started to post daily updates of artwork by African Americans. Having been listed as one of Tumblr\u2019s best art blogs, BCA\u2019s follower count started to rise, confirming Drew\u2019s conviction about the importance of her online\u00a0project.<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, it was arguably when she joined Instagram in 2013 as @museummammy that Drew gained her voice. \u201cIt was an opportunity to articulate who I was as a person behind this project,\u201d she reminisces. Around this time, she also became more aware of the political aspect of her activities: \u201cIn 2012 I was working in New York at Creative Time coming into a consciousness about what it meant to be a black woman working in the arts.\u201d With POC artists still criminally underrepresented in galleries and institutions in America (a recent study conducted at CUNY Futtman College\u00a0claimed that 80.5% of artists represented by NYC\u2019s top 45 galleries are white), Drew\u2019s social media presence is an invaluable resource for art lovers and professionals alike who are dedicated to bridging this gap.<\/p>\n

\"\" Solange. Image: Kimberly Drew.<\/p>\n

Fast-forward four years, and the influencer has turned her passion into a career. Today, she\u2019s the Met Museum\u2019s social media manager, posting to an audience of over two million people. Meanwhile, despite @museummammy recently hitting 127,000 followers, Drew remains modest about her success, acknowledging how far her skills have come in this time and gleefully admitting that in the beginning she \u201cspent a lot of time putting really awful filters on really great art\u201d.<\/p>\n

And now? \u201cI\u2019m in full-throttle \u2018I want to do everything\u2019 mode,\u201d she says. \u201cIt\u2019s incredible to be a person who inspires others. I never would have thought in a million years people would be interested in the things that I\u2019m doing.\u201d<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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