Story Time with Dr. Linda Hume and Art Making with Hakeem Olayinka

Sugar Hill Children's Museum of Art & Storytelling is a place where children and families learn and grow in shared experiences of art and stories. The Sugar Hill Children’s Museum of Art & Storytelling provides our culturally rich neighborhood with a space where children and their families grow and learn about Sugar Hill, and about the world at large, through intergenerational dialogue with artists, art and storytelling. Designed to nurture the curiosity and creative spirit of three- to eight-year-old children, Sugar Hill Children's Museum of Art & Storytelling provides opportunities to grow as both author and audience, as children engage with the work of accomplished artists and storytellers, and create and share their own.

Hakeem Olayinka is a Nigerian-American Washington DC native visual artist. His passion for art came early from watching cartoons, anime, and claymation movies. Later he went on to study at SUNY Purchase’s School of Art & Design and graduated in the fall of 2019.

Hakeem has a focus in painting and drawing though his work often takes on other forms like sculpture and installation. However, the work remains visually cohesive. His work features portraits of blacks figures often using himself as the subject. These figures can often be seen masked, downed, draped or just simply operating in these saturated worlds of color. His palette contradicts the expressions of the figure; they translate frustration through exhaustion.

http://www.hakeemolayinka.com