DAWN has been conserving herself fairly busy. The progressive artist has introduced her partnership with Cartoon Community’s grownup nighttime programming block, Grownup Swim.
For the partnership, DAWN will step into the function as a artistic marketing consultant for the channel’s upcoming tasks. In bringing artistic tasks to their liner and on-line platform, she’s going to scout and highlight Black artists and animators to pitch exhibits to Grownup Swim, in addition to create music movies and social content material for the platform.
“It’s been a long-term mission of mine to push down obstacles and break ceilings for voices which might be typically unheard or missed,” she shared. “I’ve beloved working with Grownup Swim during the last 5 years and I actually needed to do extra than simply use the platform for myself,”
The partnership has already been within the works, as she mentioned her content material creator function with Rated R&B in April 2019.
“I’m not doing my job if I’m not taking different individuals with me,” commented DAWN about her push for extra Black creatives in animation. “It’s cool to be like, ‘Yeah, I received a platform,’ but it surely’s like what do you do with it? So, what I’m actually enthusiastic about being able to decide on completely different individuals of coloration to work with and collaborate with in order that they’re able to have their s**t on Grownup Swim with me. I need to have the ability to share that enjoyable and glory with them.”