Brooke C. Obie

Brooke C. Obie is a screenwriter for TV and film, the award-winning author of the Black-revolution novel Book of Addis: Cradled Embers, and an award-winning film journalist. She is the editor-in-chief of Will Packer Media’s Black-women’s lifestyle site xoNecole. In 2019, she was named to the Root 100 Most Influential African Americans in the media category.

Image of Gio Swaby, Love Letter 2, 2018, thread and fabric sewn on canvas

The Root of Black Joy: The Work of Bahamian Artist Gio Swaby

For Roxane Gay’s guest-edited section in the Winter 2022 Gagosian Quarterly, “Black to Black,” Brooke C. Obie addresses the mixed-media work of Gio Swaby, exploring the ways that Black joy, ancestry, and her home country inform her developing practice.

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Brooke C. Obie

The Root of Black Joy: The Work of Bahamian Artist Gio Swaby

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