sevensclash: Melinda Brown is the founder and creative director of Roktowa, a nonprofit gallery, café and community space in downtown Kingston, Jamaica. She is an Australian abstract sculptress who has been in Jamaica for the past eight years, and depending on the circles in which you roam she is either persona non grata or a celebrated crusader for the arts. Her very presence in the area inspires awe and admiration among the uptown art crowd, and her work on the ground developing the infrastructure necessary to cultivate the growth of a creative community makes her a beloved neighborhood resident. But Roktowa’s stated mission, “Plant artists to create growth,” flies in the face of the top-down approach favored by the business community tasked with revitalizing the area. Sevens Clash salutes the mission My latest piece for Sevens Clash. Click through for Mad Max 2, Australian psychedelia, iron lungs and white women in downtown Kingston.
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Melinda Brown is the founder and creative director of Roktowa, a nonprofit gallery, café and community space in downtown Kingston, Jamaica. She is an Australian abstract sculptress who has been in Jamaica for the past eight years, and depending on the circles in which you roam she is either persona non grata or a celebrated crusader for the arts. Her very presence in the area inspires awe and admiration among the uptown art crowd, and her work on the ground developing the infrastructure necessary to cultivate the growth of a creative community makes her a beloved neighborhood resident. But Roktowa’s stated mission, “Plant artists to create growth,” flies in the face of the top-down approach favored by the business community tasked with revitalizing the area. Sevens Clash salutes the mission

My latest piece for Sevens Clash. Click through for Mad Max 2, Australian psychedelia, iron lungs and white women in downtown Kingston.