artBeat Narrative

The seeds of artBeat Collective, Inc. were planted in a 2006 poetry seminar. Inspired be an exchange of their written work, founders, Montana Ray and Claudine Kanku Page, began a dialogue regarding the capacity of poetry to express ideas of social currency. 

Montana and Claudine were further united by an interest in East African culture; Claudine was fundraising to bring a local poet of Congolese origin, Omekongo wa Dibinga, to speak on Georgetown's campus, and Montana had previously worked as a curator for the Nommo Gallery, in Kampala, Uganda. In each other they found a shared objective to use the arts to fashion a positive self-image and promote communication across cultures. 

Art Educator's Retreat

December 2007 we were hired by St. Stephen's & St. Agnes School in VA to facilitate an arts education retreat for arts educators and administrators across the DC-VA-MD Metro ares, including back to school workshops in bookmaking, ceramics, printmaking, Batala drumming and storytelling. 

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