Hollyhood
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Hollyhood
November 18 @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Dr. Amber Epps is a multidisciplinary artist that creates using various found and discarded objects from nature and other unexpected places such as thrift stores. The work that she creates is inspired by spirituality, humanism, occult, social justice, and prison reform. Amber also creates word art, developing pieces based on writings drawn from raw emotion, current and past life personal experience, and the things she sees through her "other eyes."
Amber is also known as HollyHood, the "mom of Pittsburgh hip hop", producing events, DJ'ing, writing songs, and performing at venues and events both inside and outside of Pittsburgh. The music video for her song "No Sleep Til Brooklyn", shot, edited, and directed by Chris Ivey, has appeared in a number of spaces including the McDonough Museum of Art, Space Gallery, and as part of the Anthropology of Motherhood exhibit at the Three Rivers Arts Festival. Her album, YellowJacket, was featured in a hip-hopera she co-wrote, co-directed, and co-starred in titled "Quest and the Girl with the Yellow Jacket", which was a part of the New Hazlett Theater's Community Supported Art series. Additionally, she has opened for artists such as Ja Rule, Warren G, GZA, Sugarhill Gang, Rakim, and KRS-One.