Performing Artist at #HellaBlack Vol. 7: Shift

Rafael Arturo Lugo (better known as Rafael A. Shabazz) is a multidisciplinary Afro-Latino artist and poet from Dorchester, Massachusetts. Through his writing and visual arts, he tells stories that are rooted in economic struggle, oppression and urging you to dig deep within yourself. Arturo’s artwork has been featured at Distillery Gallery, Humphreys Street Studio, JP Licks, School of Fashion Design (Boston), Market.Casablanc, Inner Sanctum, The Living Gallery (Brooklyn, NY), Elevated Thoughts (Lawrence, MA), Starbucks (Somerville, MA) and 1369 Coffeehouse (Central, Sq, Cambridge), CNCPT6 (Lowell, MA), The Alchemy Experiment (Glasgow, UK).  The Flesh Magazine, Love Over Powers Hate Magazine (Somerville, MA), African American Master Artist In Residency (Jamaica Plain, MA) 

Project Description: I’ll be sharing Afro Latino pride, culture, education, and spiritual self awareness through my poetry.