I’ve gotten a few queries on the subtitle of our project title, ‘A Visual Art Retrospective,’ so I decided to make a brief entry expanding on our intentions in this respect. A lot of comments were made that this would be just another film about the Civil Rights movement; we ultimately are not looking to make another film about the Civil Rights movement as we are well aware that the Black experience stretches far beyond that. A friend was telling me recently that on matters of race in this country, we are all on the same page before 1963, but after that the story multiplies in varied strands of ambiguous rainbow colors, I think she was mostly correct.

Colored Frames is first a song to the various textures, colors, strokes, and shades of light that shape art created in recent years by African American artists. So to be blunt, we want to show you how pretty we think African American art can be. We will of course attempt to cover the last fifty years historically, and as such we are inevitably going to cover the effects of the Civil Rights movement on artists and art movements within the community, however we are making here a visual song to Black art, what ever we discover it to be, and hope that both the journey, and arrived at destination, prove fruitful as well as entertaining.