Welcome to the Nia Network: A Program Bureau, a division of Celeste Bateman & Associates. The program bureau features visual and performing artists, historians, writers and motivational speakers of African descent who present in various venues nationally and internationally. CB&A has compiled a roster of extraordinarily talented individuals who are available to perform and present at colleges and universities, performing arts centers, schools, churches, corporations, festivals, trade shows, etc. What makes this program bureau unique is that all of the participants present topics and art forms pertaining to the African Diaspora.
Nia is the Swahili word for ‘purpose.’ Our purpose is to promulgate what is rich and positive about African, Caribbean, and African-American culture, history, heritage and art. For booking information, email us at info@celestebateman.com or call 973.705.8253.
PLEASE NOTE: We are unable to take on additional artists/speakers at this time, but please feel free to forward your information for future consideration.
Nia is the Swahili word for ‘purpose.’ Our purpose is to promulgate what is rich and positive about African, Caribbean, and African-American culture, history, heritage and art. For booking information, email us at info@celestebateman.com or call 973.705.8253.
PLEASE NOTE: We are unable to take on additional artists/speakers at this time, but please feel free to forward your information for future consideration.
roycrosse
A Trinidad native, roycrosse began playing the steel drum and bass as a young man in Port of Spain with the Trinidad All Stars and the Star Lift Steel Orchestra. He immigrated to Toronto, Canada to study art and joined the Steel-Tones Orchestra, performing campus gigs and recording with the band for the Canadian Broadcasting Company Christmas show. In 1986, he came to the United States and worked with jazz and folks singers in the New York-New Jersey metropolitan area. As the roycrosse Trio, he performed the jazz café circuit and has been featured on gigs with saxophonist Oliver Lake and bassist Chris White. His quintet has performed at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center’s Sound of the City, the East Orange Jazz Festival as well as concerts in Boston and Mexico City. His trio appeared regularly at the Priory Jazz Brunch series in Newark, NJ and he was featured on an hour-long live public radio broadcast in Allentown, PA in 2000. His current CD, A Touch of Latin, was produced with a five-piece ensemble that includes violin, guitar, bass, percussions and steel drum.
roycrosse is also an award-winning visual artist. In 2002 he won the prestigious Joan Mitchell Award for sculpture. He has been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions and is the recipient of numerous awards. He received a Diploma in Art at Central Technical School and studied Design at Ryerson Polytechnic Institute, both in Toronto. His works are in a number of private and public collections and he has been the subject of various articles and television programs. He has served as a curator, panelist, adjunct professor and art instructor for various organizations, galleries, museums and universities in the U.S. and Canada is the former Chair, Painting Department, Jamaica School of Art, Jamaica, West Indies.
roycrosse is now settled in Baltimore, MD where he has established Westnorth Studio, an exhibition and performance space. He is currently working on a new limited edition artist book entitled Moment to Moment which will be published by the Experimental Printmaking Institute at Lafayette College in Easton, PA. In Baltimore, roycrosse continues to work as a visual artist and musician. He is available for solo performances or with his trio.
Sculpture: http://www.neoimages.net/artistportfolio.aspx?pid=752
Painting : http://www.neoimages.net/artistportfolio.aspx?pid=905
Works on paper: http://www.neoimages.net/artistportfolio.aspx?pid=987
roycrosse.NeoImages.net
roycrosse is also an award-winning visual artist. In 2002 he won the prestigious Joan Mitchell Award for sculpture. He has been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions and is the recipient of numerous awards. He received a Diploma in Art at Central Technical School and studied Design at Ryerson Polytechnic Institute, both in Toronto. His works are in a number of private and public collections and he has been the subject of various articles and television programs. He has served as a curator, panelist, adjunct professor and art instructor for various organizations, galleries, museums and universities in the U.S. and Canada is the former Chair, Painting Department, Jamaica School of Art, Jamaica, West Indies.
roycrosse is now settled in Baltimore, MD where he has established Westnorth Studio, an exhibition and performance space. He is currently working on a new limited edition artist book entitled Moment to Moment which will be published by the Experimental Printmaking Institute at Lafayette College in Easton, PA. In Baltimore, roycrosse continues to work as a visual artist and musician. He is available for solo performances or with his trio.
Sculpture: http://www.neoimages.net/artistportfolio.aspx?pid=752
Painting : http://www.neoimages.net/artistportfolio.aspx?pid=905
Works on paper: http://www.neoimages.net/artistportfolio.aspx?pid=987
roycrosse.NeoImages.net