Department: Case Files

Classification: Public Access

Status: Ongoing Archive

Welcome to the visual record of The Canvas Bureau

Each case file examines some aspect of the Black Experience, whether historical, current, everyday life, or a glimpse into a possible future.

Review the files below…

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In your inquiry please include: Name, Casefile, Size, With or without framing, zip code for shipping or whether you will be picking up (Columbia SC area).

Sizes: 5×7; 8×10; 16×20 (in)

Framing: Yes or No (simple Mat style framing)

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Case File 001 - Limitless Acrylic Print Available on Canvas Dear Black Woman, sitting beneath the universe. You refuse to be contained. A declaration? An invitation? Existence beyond limits.
Case File 002 - Indigo Daughter Acrylic Print Available on Canvas She is free in her body. She is grounded in her roots. She is untouched by any social expectation. She exists fully and boldly as herself.
Case File 003 - Never Apologizing Again Acrylic Print Available on Canvas There will be no shrinking. No covering. No explaining. She celebrates her freedom and takes up space as herself.
Case File 004 - Defiance Acrylic Print Available on Canvas She turns her back, yet she can still be seen. She chooses herself over anyone's perception of her.
Case File 005 - Orders Acrylic Print The bombing. The burning. The order to kill.
Case File 005 - Becoming Acrylic Print The freedom to be Black and exist while healing and coloring your pieces.
Case File 007 - Evidence of Sound Acrylic Print Every note becomes evidence that she was here, she was heard and she took up space. Good space.