This is Hip Hop East Coast Edition
Category: Event Calendar
Date and Time for this Past Event
- Thursday, Jul 6, 2023 6pm
Location
National Museum of African American Music
510 Broadway Place
Details
Join us for the opening reception and unveiling of our new exhibit,This is Hip Hop: East Coast Edition. This exhibit will be honoring the hip- hop illustrator cartoonist, teacher, and writer, Andre LeRoy Davis. Mr. Davis has illustrated for magazines, record labels, and entertainment media outlet such as: Bad Boy entertainment, Def Jam, MTV, Mad Magazine, Marvel Comics, and TOPPS Company Inc. André also helped to create logos, album covers, mix-tape art and a wide range of graphic designs for a diverse clientele first through the company that he co-founded, Melanin Inc. and now via his own brand Dré Designs. His artwork has been featured in the 2003 motion picture, Tupac: Resurrection “In His Own Words” as well as the 2015 Documentary, “Stretch and Bobbito: Radio That Changed Lives". His illustrations have appeared on sports trading cards as well comic book covers and inside books like, "DEFinition: The Art and Design of Hip Hop" a 2008 book by Cey Adams and Bill Adler as well as Chuck D Presents, “This Day in Rap and Hip-Hop History” and “Encyclopedia of Black Comics” both books released in 2017. This event will be free and open to the public.. Stay tuned for more details.
