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The Institute for the Preservation of African-American Music and Arts is the educational and cultural initiative of the Holy Redeemer Educational Consortium envisioned by Bishop Sedgwick Daniels.

 

This initiative is designed to preserve the rich tradition of African-American artistic contributions in the performing and visual arts. Its goal is to integrate the arts into academic achievement and performance utilizing science, technology, engineering and mathematics. By preserving diverse musical genres and legendary contributions of African-Americans and through displaying and exhibiting artifacts, paintings and an array of artistic rendering that demonstrates cultural appreciation of the arts, the I-PAMA will advance awareness of the Black artistic journey through a collection of archival displays and historical footages that depicts the African-American artistic sojourn.The amazing triumphs, struggles, achievements and celebrations of their sojourn will be displayed throughout the institute.

 

The scenic and beautiful campuses of I-PAMA encircle a venue for performing arts productions, special events and a musical cafe featuring southern cuisines with an atmosphere of authentic African-American musical and artistic expressions. Historic and contemporary artistic resources will be accessible through an innovative electronic library designed to enhance research, provide information and preserve testimonials, memoirs and resources that affirm the rich tradition and contributions of an array of artist.

 

For centuries, indigenous Africans embraced the arts, sciences, mathematics & architectural concepts which have garnered notoriety and fostered appreciation for their profound ingenious. The global duplication of their culture and custom has revealed an unprecedented appreciation of their artist forms and contributions. The human transposing of these native Africans did not diminish the ability to preserve the rich traditions, identities and customs. They embraced an unfeigned and rigorous appreciation for the unparalleled and immeasurable traditions when globally dispersed, including their horrific trans-Atlantic middle passage to the Americas. These brutal and inhumane voyages were motivated by African tribal conflicts, European economic greed and the amassed benefits of slave trading in the United States. Their will to survive, belief in the possibility of returning to their native land, faith in their God and passion to protect their ancestral heritage afforded these captured Africans the unique ability to utilize intergenerational transfer of knowledge and traditions within their new communities. Their display of musical and artist expressions resonated through their worship experience and segregated environments.

Parenthetically and incidentally, the devalued appreciation by American and Europe communities would not ultimately defuse the significant contributions that the African tradition would embed into future generations and historians.

The replication of African musical genres and artistic expressions have created multi-billion dollar industries and perpetually defined a plethora of globally recognized forms of Art. The I-PAMA is dedicated and committed to accurately archive and perpetuate a repository of their stellar accomplishments and provide avenue for future artist who can appreciate the African contribution to society.

ABOUT

Dr. Roosevelt Daniels Academic Symposium

 

Capturing and integrating the arts into the academic

rigor of science, technology, engineering and math is

the focus of the symposium and affords urban youth an

impressive advantage in their academic proficiency and

professional attainment.

 

Dr. Mattie Moss-Clark Conservatory

 

Embodied in the African Music tradition and often

influenced by the substratum of Gospel Music various

celebrated forms of African-American music evolved

including blues, ragtime, jazz, rhythm and blues, hiphop,

rap and other urban music traditions. The I-PAMA

will showcase these various musical personalities and

eras, while revealing the evolution and impact of this

musical presentation.

 

Maestra Karen Bell Rotunda

 

The I-PAMA has dedicated a centralized rotunda for

the display of special African artistic collections and

artifacts that symbolizes specific eras and artistic

expressions both historic and contemporary

The African Ukumbi

 

The gathering place for special events, presentations,

lectures and confabulations has been designated for

traveling exhibits and collaborative partnership

opportunities.

The Archives

 

The historic preservation of books, videos, periodicals,

publications, paintings, renderings and other contributed

articles will be displayed throughout the I-PAMA,

which share the plight, victories and untold stories of

unsung heroes and heroines

 

E-Library

 

The ability to research historic contributions and

explore a holistic presentation of African art, music

and history will be afforded those entering the E-library.

Genealogy and ancestry data recorded by governments

and other historic organizations will be accessible

utilizing technology.

THE SPACE

As the United States was celebrating

the grand opening of the historic and

beautiful National African-American

Museum at the Smithsonian Institute

in Washington D.C., the visionary and

cutting edge ministries of the Church

Of God In Christ joyfully celebrated the

groundbreaking for “The Institute for

the Preservation of African-American

Music and Fine Arts” in Milwaukee,

Wisconsin.

 

The pilgrimage of Presiding Bishop

Charles E. Blake to Wisconsin in 2016

encircled the 30th anniversary of Holy

Redeemer Institutional Church Of God

In Christ, where Bishop Sedgwick

Daniels is the Establishmentarian/

Minister and sanctioned the multimillion

dollar initiative for a historic

preservation, educational awareness

and economic empowerment institute,

entitled the Institute for Preservation

of African-American Music and Arts,

otherwise known as I-PAMA.

THE VISION

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