Boma Tende is a Nigerian-American Artist and UX Designer. She recently graduated from the University of Maryland, College Park, with a BA in Studio Arts and BS in Information Science.
When creating art, Boma intends to highlight the beauty of Black women to inspire them and others to love themselves. Her Nigerian heritage and African American culture also influence her art, which she calls Afro-Unity. Afro-Unity is when the African diaspora connects and cultures unite through art and appreciation.
Sky Buy
“Sky Buy” is an experimental video conceived as a dream collage. My intent was to arrange a set of images with all the logic and shifting pacing of a dreamscape. In the principal scenes, various artifacts of TV media are subjected to a forceful purifying water barrage. I collaborated with computer animator Francisco Olivares to create a waterspout sequence designed to overwhelm a series of abstracted scenes drawn from commercial media. A second animated water sequence depicts the flooding of the physical detritus of our media infrastructure. Additional footage includes night driving, two plazas in Madrid, an ocean buoy, driving in the rain, and a Klezmer band. Elliott Grabill provided principal sound/music sequences.
Medium: HD video
Year: 2013
Details: 2:42 minutes
11 Time Paintings
I think of my video art as painting in time. “11 Time Paintings” presents a series of short visual music sketches produced utilizing a range of rhythmic editing techniques. The audio always originates with the original ambient sound recorded at the time the video was shot. My intent is to create a visceral effect, with a distinct sound/image “brushstroke” occurring with each edit - no additional soundtracks are added. While abstract in a musical sense, vestiges of the locations where I shot my source footage remain, revealing references to Madrid traffic, Times Square, a jungle in Costa Rica, and other sites.
Medium: HD video
Year: 2019
Details: 6:24 minutes
Food Access Projects
These collaboratively designed refrigerated trailers bring 10,000 pounds of food weekly to communities in Prince George's County. This project was made possible by Kaiser Permanente and Amy Gyau-Moyer, Senior Program Manager of Community Health, SEED and Lisa Butler McDougal President, Passion & Compassion and Pastor Ben Slye, and my wonderful team of artists including Walter "Tre" McDougal, Sarah Heerey, and Shenelle.
Pimlico Inspire Project
Documentation video:
Large Scale Placemaking, Collaborative Horizontal Murals, Fence weaving, Semi- Permanent Abstract Steel Sculpture in Park Heights Renaissance neighborhood in West Baltimore. Partnership with city planning and Pimlico Elementary/Middle School, design workshops with youth, door knocking, community art events that engaged residents in the painting process.
Large Scale Placemaking, Collaborative Horizontal Murals, Fence weaving, Semi- Permanent Abstract Steel Sculpture in Park Heights Renaissance neighborhood in West Baltimore. Partnership with city planning and Pimlico Elementary/Middle School, design workshops with youth, door knocking, community art events that engaged residents in the painting process.
Let's Talk...
An original idea of our founder Let's Talk introduces the public to artists of African descent.
A House Of Djeli and Djeli Tales,LLC production.
A House Of Djeli and Djeli Tales,LLC production.