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Seychelles, by Jaymes Jorsling, (2023, acrylic on canvas) is now on display at Women Building Up, an organization that shifts resources to women, girls, and gender expansive people who have been impacted by carceral systems— building leadership, wellbeing, & power.

Join us to see the work of Jaymes Jorsling who completed his Calabar Gallery Art Residency at coLAB Arts. Jaymes Jorsling's Hub City is a multidisciplinary event consisting of paintings, a stage play, and original blues, jazz, and hip-hop. Click here for free tickets to the Open House, which will be located at CoLAB Arts in New Brunswick, NJ June 19 - 23, 2025.

Calabar Gallery announced Jaymes Jorsling as their fourth Art Resident at coLAB Arts in New Brunswick, NJ. This Social Justice Residency is for emerging and mid-career Black Artists globally who are working using unconventional ideas, materials, subject matter and doing some research-based work on a particular topic and pedagogy on Black lives globally & socially engaging New Brunswick. 

Jaymes Jorsling's play, Bushwick '77 will be read on Governors Isaland on September 21st at 4:30 pm. This reading is hosted by Duye Moves, the community arts service initiative of Chikaba’s Sanctuary.

Piedmont Blues explores the essence and impact of the Piedmont blues musical style, defined by ragtime rhythms, fingerpicking guitar, and understated vocals twinned with searing lyrics, made famous by artists including Blind Boy Fuller, Reverend Gary Davis, Elizabeth Cotten, and Etta Baker.

Jaymes Jorsling's art was on display at the 2021 Genia Gala, hosted at The View in Redhook, Brooklyn last week.

Following a celebrated Off-Broadway run during the 2019-2020 season, (A)Loft Modulation, a play by Jaymes Jorsling has received four AUDELCO Award nominations

Gerald Clayton, six-time GRAMMY-nominated pianist, composer, and bandleader, was commissioned by Duke University in 2016 to make a " tribute to the Piedmont blues — a musical style defined by ragtime rhythms, fingerpicking guitar, and understated vocals twinned with searing lyrics — that grew up around the tobacco warehouses of Durham in the 1920s and ‘30s, when the Bull City was the largest cigarette manufacturer in the world. Though the most famous exponents of the Piedmon