{"product_id":"cbabi-bayoc-art-2027-african-american-wall-calendar","title":"For the Culture: The Art of C'Babi Bayoc 2027 Wall Calendar","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eCreative Black Artist Battling Ignorance. Born Clifford Miskell Jr., he took CBABI at Grambling State in the early nineties as an acronym, and later added BAYOC, Blessed African Youth Of Creativity, as something he could hand down to children he had not had yet. Everything he has painted since has been an argument about how Black people get depicted and who gets to do the depicting. For The Culture collects twelve of those arguments.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe work is loud in the best way. Acrylic, a flat brush, and an iPad, in his words, used to show the dopeness of Black people. Flat planes of orange and violet, faces built from stacked color blocks, hand-lettering running up the side of a canvas like it was the point all along. A man's portrait labeled THOUGHTFUL, KIND, FUNNY, SMART, WISE. A woman in a wide purple hat, finger raised to her lips. Another standing inside a swarm of speech bubbles carrying every line Black women hear at work, with NEVERTHELESS SHE PERSISTED running along the bottom. A couple mid-embrace against a wall of red script.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eBayoc got his start drawing caricatures at Six Flags over St. Louis, a job that taught him to work fast and take criticism from someone standing right in front of him. That led to illustration work, and by 1998 he was producing a monthly caricature of a featured artist for Rap Pages. Around the same time Prince began collecting his paintings, and in 2001 one of them became the cover of \u003cem\u003eThe Rainbow Children\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eIn 2012 he set himself a New Year's resolution to paint one positive image of Black fatherhood every day for a year, and 365 Days with Dad became the project he is still best known for. It ended up taking two years to complete, partly because Cbabi was a father in the middle of his own personal fatherhood journey.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSince he completed \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ethat project, he has \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ecreated more than \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003etwenty murals on \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eschool walls around \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSt. Louis and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eillustrated \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eGoodnight Racism\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ewith Ibram X. Kendi, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ewhich landed him on \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ethe New York Times \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ebestseller list.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCbabi (pronounced Kuh-bob-bi) Bayoc works from St. Louis, where he and his wife Reine run Sweet Art, a bakery and studio under one roof. His subjects are family, children, music, and, as he puts it, other cool stuff designed with line, bold color, and phunk. His standing advice to anyone who asks: keep your brush wet and paint the life that you want.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBrowse the full \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.blackartdepot.com\/collections\/artist-cbabi-bayoc-art-gallery\" title=\"Cbabi Bayoc Art, Gifts and Collectibles\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCbabi Bayoc \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ecollection for prints \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.blackartdepot.com\/collections\/artist-cbabi-bayoc-art-gallery\" title=\"Cbabi Bayoc Art, Gifts and Collectibles\"\u003eand more of his work\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eBlack history facts and milestone dates are printed right in the date blocks, so you can learn something about Our Story almost every day. The daily squares stay roomy enough for birthdays, appointments, deadlines, and events, and adjacent-month mini calendars let you see what is coming without flipping ahead. Each calendar ships in a matching protective envelope, which makes it easy to gift and worth keeping once the year is done.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ecalendar measures 12 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ex 12 inches closed \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eand opens to 12 x 24 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003einches on the wall. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePremium full-color \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eprinting throughout, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003estapled binding that \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eturns pages cleanly \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eall year. It covers \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eJanuary through \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDecember 2027 and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003emarks all major \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eholidays alongside \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003esignificant dates in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAfrican American \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ehistory.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIt belongs \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ein a studio, a dorm, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ea barbershop, a \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eclassroom, or \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eanywhere the walls \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ealready lean toward \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ecolor. Give it to an \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eartist, a student, a \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003enew graduate, or \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003esomeone who has been \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003emeaning to start \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ecollecting. 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