an HBCU Homecoming
The HBCU homecoming is a celebration like no other. Each institution picks a day in the fall to call their alumni home to celebrate the legacy and family birthed at the institution. The reunion is unmatched. Reconnecting with old friends to seeing those people you always pasted on campus. Food from all over, fashion that’ll blow your mind, music and dancing that can go on all night. It’s beautiful.
This year I decided to captured the YOUTH of the experience. Homecomings are special because it’s a special reunion for alumni. But at Morgan (in my opinion), the youth culture is the driving force of a lot of the excitement at our homecoming. Our 3 years ago we experience a social boom at our sesquicentennial, 150 years, celebration. 152 was another exciting time, probably our largest homecoming to date with energy to match!
DvzieAdventures: Toronto
I really loved my time in Toronto. The currency exchange kinda messed with my head (felt like everything was way more expensive) but other than that it was really amazing. Everything seemed cleaner in Canada. Air felt cleaner, water was bluer, greens were lusher. I found myself solely tuned into Jazz.FM, Toronto’s premier jazz radio station. IT set the tone directing the energy of the trip. Toronto is definitely a place I could spend a lot of time artistically because the city really fostered a creative spirit and energy that pushes you to explore all that you can be. From numerous pop up shops, the intense amount of graffiti to the daring architecture alone; it was hard not to find inspiration on any day.
Maybe i’m being too nostalgic but it felt like I pursue any artistic endeavor.
DvzieAdventures: New York City
Tobi
@ayabatobi
My friend, Tobi, organized trip to New York City. a Museum tour to the Moma, The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Guggenheim Museum with stops along the way.
On paper it was high tempo & active but being in the city, catching trains and walking the streets. I was just overwhelmed with the life here. It was so fast but productive. In this city you can really shape that life that you want to live.
I guess you can do that anywhere but I had a special connection with this city.
Newburg, Pennsylvania
I went to a party in the Middle-of-Nowhere, Pennsylvania and knowing me I started to wandering around. The topography of Western Pennsylvania always fascinated me, unlike a lot of the places I've been to, this region's rolling Appalachian terrain mixed with its interesting vegetation always provides a scenic landscape to observe.
DvzieAdventures: Model x Tim Jewls
"In aPRIL i TRIED SOMETHING NEW AND SHOT my first music video with Tim Jewls"
April 2018
Artist Highlight: Tim Jewls
DvzieAdventures: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
In March, during I my University's spring Break, I attended a convention with was held in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. I went to the convention center and quickly realized that 1. This was way too much for me and 2. I had no interest in the program.
So, knowing me I turned the trip in to an adventure!
DvzieAdventures: The Rawlings COnservatory
Leaving the D.C. suburbs to live in Baltimore was a kind of a shock for me. In Upper Marlboro, you get a balance of living in nature and embracing suburban growth. whereas baltimore is a real concrete jungle with oasis’ scattered throughout the city. The Rawlings Conservatory is definitely one of those oasis’.
Howard P. Rawlings Conservatory & Botanical Gardens
DvzieAdventures: National Gallery Of Art
"when you go to a new country, you typically go to museums and historic sites to learn about the people, their essence, their culture, their values ....... That's the function of museums, especially one given the title of 'national'."
DvzieAdventures: U.S. Botanical Gardens
"What makes a memory. The recollection of a sight, sound, smell, a sensation? Sometimes it can be one or two of these feelings; other times all of them. Today was interesting because it was a new experience but it also felt like I was somewhere else. I was caught somewhere between a new experience and nostalgia. It felt like I returned to a place I knew my whole life but was distant at the same time. Weird right."
DvzieAdventures: The New Jungle Boys
It's a new season and we have a new class of boys entering the Jungle. Its my first year as an RA and my primary mission this semester is to show these new boys how to navigate this jungle we call college the best way I know how: through adventure....
Dvzieadventures: Venice, Italy
Watching the sun as I Ride the bus on the Lido.
Laughing down this Venitian street with Mark Bradford: Artist of the 2017 US Pavilion at the Venice Biennale
“Every decision you’ve made in your life up until this point has led you to meeting the artist, Mark Bradford, of the American Pavilion at arguably the largest art show in the world”
DvzieAdventures:Nigeria
We've been going around Lagos to the different parts of the city and spent a lot of time on the road. Here are some of the views from the streets of Lagos.
