Inspire Entertainment Magazine Fall 2013 | Page 8

Over the years, Brenda Joysmith’s art work has received valued exposure through electronic media as it has been displayed on the sets of both network television series (The Cosby Show, A Different World, Amen, Family Matters, Sinbad, In The Heat Of The Night, Sparks, Good News, The Gregory Hines Show, The Jamie Foxx Show, Malcolm and Eddie, The Hughleys, Cosby, and Ricochet) and feature films (Philadelphia, Lethal Weapon III, Ghost Dad, House Party II, Jason's Lyric, A Family Thing, A Preacher's Wife, Love and Basketball, Music of the Heart, All That Glitters, and Kingdom Come). Joysmith Gallery’s mission is to provide Brenda's original pastel paintings are both cause and caliber in its presentaowned by: Maya Angelou, Roberta tion of works by established and emergFlack, B Smith, Oprah Winfrey, and ing Black artists from Africa and the dithe U.S. Embassy Ambassador's resi- aspora. In selecting artists, works, and dence in Lesotho, South Africa. To- themes, the gallery ascribes to Okwui day, Joysmith Studio services over Enwenzor’s expression that the aim of 1000 retail galleries and several na- curating is not to be a tastemaker but to tional and international art distribu- provide knowledge - not just of art but of the world in which it is made. tors.