{"id":86,"date":"2025-04-01T15:02:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-01T15:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fun4everyone.kinsta.cloud\/?p=86"},"modified":"2025-04-01T15:02:00","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T15:02:00","slug":"patricia-andrews-keenan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fun4everyone.kinsta.cloud\/?p=86","title":{"rendered":"Patricia Andrews-Keenan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"sqs-html-content\" data-sqsp-text-block-content>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Artist, and Founder and Publisher of Pigment International<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.squarespace-cdn.com\/content\/v1\/680f8029a163e24569fd54e8\/1751858199774-Z8OM2UQUD414JSHLY953\/Patricia+Andrews-Keenan.jpg?format=original\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"sqs-html-content\" data-sqsp-text-block-content>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\"><strong>Patricia Andrews-Keenan<\/strong> is the founder of a Black woman-founded and led multimedia platform that reports on the art, people, issues, trends, and events shaping Black contemporary art, and examines the linkages connecting historical and contemporary Black art.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Founded in 2018 in Chicago, Pigment serves as a connector among Black creators, collectors, curators, investors, and other stakeholders.&nbsp; Pigment convenes the Black art ecosystem for inspiring, cross-generational dialogue. It publishes Pigment Magazine and the Black Gallery Guide + and, under Andrews-Keenan\u2019s leadership, founded Black Fine Art Month, first celebrated in October 2019, and now <a href=\"https:\/\/www.govinfo.gov\/content\/pkg\/CREC-2019-10-04\/html\/CREC-2019-10-04-pt1-PgE1245.htm\">concretized in the Congressional Record.<\/a> The organization\u2019s digital and print publications aim to promote the contemporary Black aesthetic in the visual arts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Andrews-Keenan is a former communications executive with extensive experience in corporate communications, public relations, advertising, community affairs, and event management. She received her BA in Journalism from Grambling State University and a certificate in Executive Leadership from UCLA.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/pandrewskeenan1\/\">LinkedIn Profile<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pigmentintl.com\/\">PIGMENT INTERNATIONAL<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\">\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":87,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fun4everyone.kinsta.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fun4everyone.kinsta.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fun4everyone.kinsta.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fun4everyone.kinsta.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fun4everyone.kinsta.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fun4everyone.kinsta.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fun4everyone.kinsta.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/87"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fun4everyone.kinsta.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fun4everyone.kinsta.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fun4everyone.kinsta.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}