Celebrating Black Creatives 2026: Robert Provilus and Gabrielle Narcisse: Curators of BLACK STARS (2/18/26)

Audio from February 18, 2026's episode of The Recess Bell: On Air, airing live every Wednesday from 6-8pm on 90.3 WHPC-FM. Joshua and the team welcome artists and event curators Robert Provilus (robertprovilus, Instagram) and Gabrielle Narcisse (gabriellenarcisse, Instagram) to the program for TRB's third radio interview for 'Celebrating Black Creatives' 2026. On Sunday, February 15, the BLACK STARS BHM Art Exhibition opened to the public. A two-week event that runs through the final day of Black History Month (Sat, 2.28); BLACK STARS is a living historical archive of sleected works from 16 Black New York-based artists, housed at Make Manifest on Tompkins Avenue in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. Robert and Gabrielle curated this event, and they discuss their inspirations and motivations for said event, as well as their accomplishments and overall journeys as multidisciplinary creatives.