carolyn “cc” concepcion

CAROLYN “CC” CONCEPCION Carolyn “CC” Concepcion is a multi-disciplinary creative entrepreneur whose work resists easy categorization, because it grapples directly with the complex systems that make business and culture work.  She currently runs her bespoke creative strategy and design studio courtesy of c. From developing explorations in storytelling, brand strategy, cultural innovation, and experience design for artists, entertainers, entrepreneurs, brands, and institutions, CC excels at uncovering insights, creating unique opportunities that shape the future, foster community, and expand the realm of what’s possible. She is a New Museum IDEAS CITY Detroit Fellow, holds a Master’s degree from NYU in design strategy, cultural innovation & storytelling and is one of the co-founders of ARTNOIR, a global arts collective and non-profit organization that catalyzes cultural equity across the arts and culture industries. CC also sits on the board of Ghetto Gastro, a Bronx-born culinary collective defining its own lane, merging food, fashion, music, art, design, and community empowerment. To get the chance to be mentored by Carolyn please select Cultural Strategy and Experience Design when applying

🖤🩶 @trecrews for @jumpman23

Food Stamps saved my life. My mom’s OG Public Assistance card. New York, 1986. Food is a weapon when it should be a birth right. @ghettogastro

My brother from another @ghettogray . 20 years of friendship. Born from hustle. Built with love + loyalty. Inspired by food, art, design and baddies! 🖤 Photo 1: Last year at The Kitchen Gala @rafaelrios__ @ellerustle Photo 2: Rif’s 21st Bday at La Esquina. Mans always been eating.

I AM! 😂 🦄🎂🎈

When dreams come true. They look like this. And where I hope to escape to more, especially these next 4 years. 🇩🇴 This small win is dedicated to the Black and Brown women who hired me, collaborated with me, believed in me, loved me and imagined me here. Thank You. 🤲🏾🖤 And to my handful of brothers ( ya know who ya are) who still give me hope in your kind.

Playing with this thing called vulnerability. It’s a process. Highkey the theme of this season of life. 📸 @stevenhawkinspolaroids

Motherland JOY! She did that. MECA did that. Community really did that. Danny, you did that. 🇩🇴🖤

Introducing our next Guest Editor, Carolyn “CC” Concepcion @queencc , co-founder of ARTNOIR @artnoirco - a female-majority and black + brown owned global collective and 501(c)(3) with a mission to celebrate and highlight the work of creatives of color while catalyzing cultural equity across the arts and culture industries. #ARTNOIRsPicks in LA: 1. Amaryllis’ Garden by @mariojoyceart  at @utaartistspace We can’t wait to see Mario’s exhibit opening today in honor of his late great-grandmother and her garden sanctuary in Columbus, Ohio.  This is one of his most personal works to date and his incorporation of soil, vintage collage and oil paint on the canvas creates stunning images that ground and captivate the viewer.  2. At the Edge of the Sun at @jeffreydeitchgallery What happens when you put twelve of LA’s most exciting artists together to show and tell what makes Los Angeles so special? We get a unique opportunity to see the City of Light from a more real, authentic, raw and rare vantage point. This exhibit will be one of the most electrifying shows to date and will go down in LA art history. Remember we told you so!  3. Sam Gilliam: The Last Five Years at @davidkordanskygallery Anytime we get a chance to see Sam Gilliam in real life, we jump at the opportunity. Sam pushed the boundaries of art production and remained innovative in his artistic practice his entire life. We want to be like him when we grow up. This exhibition reminds us that it gets greater later and it’s never too late to create.  4. CONTIGO & FOR KEEPS BOOKS LA at @guerrerogallery Guerrero Gallery blesses us with two must see presentations; CONTIGO co-curated by Angelik Vizcarrondo-Laboy @angelik.wiki features another impressive group of thirteen artists hailing from across the US and south of the border and considers how objects assert their meaning through materiality and tradition. The FOR KEEPS BOOKS LA pop-up brings one of Atlanta’s finest @forkeepsbooks to the west coast. The brilliant visionary Rosa Duffy @antylc curates a beautiful selection of books and ephemera by Black authors and artists alongside some beautiful works by Rosie Lee Tompkins.  #SeeSawLosAngeles @larryosseimensah

To create with black and brown women is the highest honor. And when it’s with an artist and writer you love, it’s even more special. Thank you, to @tschabalalaself and @sasha.bonet , for the invitation to share a very personal essay about my family’s experience as bodega owners and growing up in the streets of New York City. Sasha-You are a wonder. Thank you for pushing me to find the more vulnerable version of myself. 🖤🌹 Bodega Run presents Tschabalala Self's years-long visual exploration of the social, political and economic implications of New York's bodegas. It explores these small, largely family-run corner stores as a central institution in the collective imagination and everyday realities of multiple communities of color in New York City. The 248-page publication is designed by Pacific, published by Gregory R. Miller and edited by Sasha Bonét. Small run available for purchase at @printedmatter_stmarks and widely available online this Spring. Credit: Tschabalala Self, Bodega Run, 2024. Images courtesy of Pacific (@pacific_pacific )

when the queen come throooughhhh! *always and forever - free all my people. 🤍✨*

DR Country living is giving The Bronx major competition right now.