Introducing the Region’s only Fashion Art & Literature periodical. Imagine this: You have in your hands the future.
We are a creative community with many notable artists,
Flipping to the first page you see an image you
designers, creative photographers, writers and we desire a
haven’t seen before, a photograph. The location is fa-
voice - one place to come together and evolve.
miliar, it could be your favorite bistro, or someplace you’ve seen on a morning jog or walking the dog. It
Recently, Arts without Walls director Angela Leet said that,
could be your backyard. The house in Old Louisville
“for the arts community in Kentucky to go forward, we have
that you went to a party once. Your doctor’s office.
to be made to feel uncomfortable.” Get ready to be, feel, and
The Brown Hotel, Aegon Building, Churchill Downs,
expect to be uncomfortable Kentucky. Kentucky, you are
Cherokee Park. But something is different. Some-
entering the world stage. Bravo! You’ve arrived in Black &
thing is definitely different. The clothes are clearly
Grey.
recognizable as something someone would wear, but maybe not of this time, this place, maybe not even of
Founded by poet and photographer Bil Brown in 2010, Black
this world. You hold in your hand something worth
& Grey magazine fills a void. Creative talent in the regional
collecting, keeping, sharing, talking about. You flip
community needs a showcase. Writers need a place to write
the page, a few pages. A full page image of a piece of
freely, photographers and models needed a place to express
art you may have seen at a Trolley Hop on Market
creativity outside of the commercial evolution of the vari-
Street or Frankfort Ave. Maybe Mellwood Arts, or
ous “society papers”. The Courier Journal, owned by Gan-
even The Speed. But it is not on the walls, it is out -
nett, mass layoffs. Louisville’s highest glossies run by two
like the models in the locations you call home. Out in
or three photographers and a hand full of editors, most of
the world. Oh, and what a world it is.
which were not primarily fashion or artistic but journalists. Black & Grey magazine fills an inspired need. Is it for eve-
You have picked up Black & Grey magazine, a maga-
ryone? No, should it be? Ah, but the trendsetters, forward
zine of fashion, visual art, literature, performance
thinking movers and doers. They will make it “known and
and desire. You have picked up, perused the future
seen and talked about”, and not just in this Commonwealth.
of our community, the decidedly creative and definitive guide to the inner worlds of our artistic heritage
With the publication of Black & Grey magazine, each
and our future offerings. Oh, not just regionally, not
issue redefined, Kentucky enters the world stage of Fash-
just Louisville or Frankfort, Lexington.. The world.
ion, art and literature.
Black & Grey magazine works on the premise
As it always should have been.
brought to life over 50 years ago by a man named Leo Welmer Zimmerman, “That art should be seen August 13, 2011 Bil Brown. Creative Director/Editor-At-Large
and known and talked about, and that is the premise I am working on.” You will not find anything “keeping Louisville weird” here, we take this as a given.
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