Kamau Ware

Background

About Kamau Ware

Kamau Ware is a multidimensional creative blending complementary yet disparate disciplines as an Artist / Historian. Ware retells and expands history with scholarship and visual storytelling to fuse creativity and learning into one experience. He is best known for his flagship storytelling project, Black Gotham Experience (BGX), which is an immersive multimedia project founded in 2010 that reimagines the African Diaspora as one unified epic through a series of experiences including walks, talks, media, and events. Kamau Ware is the author of a forthcoming graphic novel series based on the five core historic walks of the Black Gotham Experience. Ware has become a sought-after voice to fill the visual abyss of Black New York history, illustrating powerful stories that exist outside of public consciousness. Recent engagements include the American Association for State and Local History Annual Meeting in Austin, TX (2017); the New Museum IdeasCity in New York, NY.(2017), SXSWedu & SXSW Interactive in Austin, Texas (2018), and the 2018 Origin Stories speaking tour that included stops at Yale University, Johns Hopkins University, Brown University, California Library Association (Santa Clara), la colonie (Paris), and the African American Museum of Philadelphia. This past fall 2018, Kamau became a visiting fellow for the New School co-teaching a course titled “Blind Spots: A Walk Through New York City’s Black Past” that will return in the spring of 2020.