Welcome to Karen Hunter's awesome and part of being awesome is growing up, refining yourself,

being cultured.

And I've come late to the table.

You know, our art in my home was the art that we saw on the Cosby Show. Okay. I never went to a museum. Actually, I did. I've been to the Louvre. I was not impressed. That's me. But when I ran into a couple of artists, you remember the Sugar Shack from Good Times, of course, everyone knows that one. But Leroy Campbell

has done some things that touched my heart. And I interviewed him for the first time when I was

back in 2015, when I first had my radio show on Sirius XM. He's incredible. He's recently

come back to Sirius XM and I just bought some more art. He gifted me a piece and I bought some more

from him.

And the touch, the love that he has for us that's in every single. Ooh, we, he has a piece that I

bought called Self-Love. And they're literally books, children reading books, and you can see

the titles of the books. Oh my God. Leroy Campbell, Gitchie Guller, Amazing Brother. Take a listen. Here's

my interview with him from 2015. I came across his guest. Actually, somebody reached out to me

and I was checking him out. And, you know, I like to bring on a lot of people from different

areas of expertise. And just because I know our listeners dabble in a whole bunch of different

stuff. So I want to bring people on that can inspire you. You have a little bit of creativity

and artistic ability. But what really caught my eye with this guest was where he's from.

So I was like, I definitely want him to come on to talk about it because his art reflects where he comes from, right? So let me welcome to the show. He's an artist, visual artist. I mean, he's also a person that celebrates the Gullah and Ghi cultures. Absolutely. Let me welcome to the show. Mr. Leroy Campbell. Thank you, Karen. Yes. Yes, and his beautiful wife is here too. So we're're on our best behavior. I just got to say how glad I am that I was born and raised on cornbread and black eyed peas. Oh, my God, finally meeting you and being in your presence is just the honor. And I appreciate the opportunity. Well, you know, I was checking out your art. And, you know, I tell people, I'm not as cultured as I may appear. That's actually a joke. I'm being a little facetious. But, you know, I had a guest on this past week last Tuesday who is into classical music, Earl O'Fari Hutchinson. And it inspired me because I think we need to challenge and stretch ourselves. A lot of us do the same things over and over and over again in our lives and we never really brought and shave off those rough edges that we have. So, you know, jazz, I'm open. I'm open. So art is something that's like poetry to me. Okay. That's very personal. Like, and so certain things have to either grab me or they don't. And your stuff grabbed me because when I looked at it, it had like this Romare Bearden feel. Wow. You know, because he was big on the collages and telling stories about his community and his life. And he stacked things up, you know, because you have some that are abstract that have like things like on it. So yeah yeah it's funny it's funny you mentioned

romayette bearden because his art when I first saw his art at smithoni

smithsonny's most snowing institute in 19 i'd say 80 no 70 let's see no 84 I went

to smithsonian institute and I saw his work and his work gave my art his voice.

And it gave me my voice as a person.

You see, like him, our lives kind of parallel.

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