Launched: August 2006
Code Z is more than just a lively art news source. With community forums, feedback opportunities, and artists' works, Code Z is an unparalleled network of black visual creators at the forefront of shaping our culture and our world.There are enough of us now; a critical mass of rebels and back-talkers, soul sisters and sci-fi brothers, iconoclasts and visionaries. Our movements have been growing steadily for decades, a little here, a little there. We are the square pegs. Now is the time to come forward in full force to shape who we are and how we see the world, to birth new visions of culture, of art, of life.
Time is now. Now is the time.
As black artists, many of us have been pushing up against the boundaries of art for many years. We have felt the yawning absence of a forum such as this.
We know you've been pushing, too. Let's push together.
Code Z has a dedicated team of editors (see below) expert in various areas of fine art, design, fashion, film, architecture, publishing, and digital media. But our success depends on our readers and our members, on you. You will make Code Z work, not us.
So come aboard. Go out and tell others: your friends, your collaborators, your co-conspirators. We're ready. We know that together we can change the shape of the world.
Thank you and peace,
The Code Z Team
Above, "I Stand Alone," Beatrice L. Thomas
Code Z Staff
Toya Northington
Editor-in-chief
Tiana Denine Harris
Art Director
C. Laray Smith, Contributing Writer and Copyeditor
Cinque Hicks, Contributing Writer
Crystal Artis, Contributing Writer
Danielle Ducre Rawls, Contributing Writer
Drék Davis, Contributing Writer
Laylah Amatullah Barrayn, Contributing Writer
Michelle Joan Wilkinson, Ph.D., Contributing Writer
Raymonde Neely, Contributing Writer
