Lajuana Lampkins Gallery Show, October 9, 2021

Documentation of every piece of art in this show.

Oct 11, 2021

Arte Agora artist Lajuana Lampkins had a gallery show last Friday night. The show was organized by leaderofbugs through lajuanaspopup and was called, "Lajuana Lampkins presents: Ghetto Art, in honor of Prince Akbar"

Her son Ghetto Art is an accomplished artist who displayed his art at the show.

Her son Prince Akbar was killed by Calumet City police in 2010.

Lajuana is currently writing a book about Prince called "They Killed A Minister". Here's the preface:

Preface to “They Killed a Minister”
By Lajuana Lampkins
Published October 9, 2021
ISBN 978-1-7337933-5-3
Prince was allergic to white people...that's what his bipolar told him, that they were monsters. Officer George Jones and Officer Danielle Redwanc proved his bipolar right, at least by their monstrous act upon his kind soul... I believe it needs a name... Post-Traumatic Slave Syndrome.
He knew he'd be lynched in these so-called modern times, and he encountered a beast.
I'll never forget the day I was in Dwight Prison and on my unit when I received a call to go to the mental health unit, well for what?
I didn't have any need to go there and tried to refuse, they ordered me, so I went there where I observed guards lined up like it was something going on unconnected to me, I went into the counselor office and calmly sat down and then she said your son is dead.
I saw tears in her eyes and I felt my soul crushed and I cried, I learned police murdered Prince and I forced my body to get up and go back to my unit as I walked passed the line of guards, and it hurts to think these people were waiting to attack me had I snapped or acted a fool like I was a animal only to lock me up and maybe inject me.
I got to my unit and once around my peers I screamed my son was killed and it was there I received the comfort and the love from the ladies who gave me the strength through God to get through the night and that is why I love my prison family.
Even the ones who we beefed time to time gave me love, so when you go on my page and explore you will meet some of my family that I spent 30 years with and some less years but I love them and to this day even now we are bonded in this hardship, even now they still care about me, if I need food or any encouraging words and I am crying because I just want to say thank you for being my family when my family could not be there and please allow me to be there for you all.
I had to wait two years to get out while in prison. I did as much of my own legal and paralegaling to try to get him out, wrote to different courts and tried to get answers. When I came home I sought out different lawyers.
I attended certain marches and protests and against abuse toward the mentally ill including getting rid of mental health centers in Chicago.
What's more dominating on our TV screens? The Covid-19 pandemic or the daily killings of people of color? Both these subjects are smothering our screens.