ABOUT US
HOW DID WE BECOME CMYK?
CMYKpresents started off as a collaborative project between Black business owners Christina "CRS" Cromer (JSPR BLVK ENT) and Aquil Yorke (MYKpresents). Together, CMYKpresents strove to combine the best of two businesses to create original works of art centered on the perspective of the Black experience
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Today at CMYK, we continue to collaborate with new artist of various backgrounds and believe in working together to make our dreams come true, and to share them with the public. We are here to provide all fellow dreamers with the best physical and digital products, carefully sourced and selected for your convenience.
WHAT DOES CMYK MEAN?
CMYK is a combination of CRS Cromer's first business Sketches by Christina (C), and Aquil's business MYKpresents (MYK). For CRS, "C" is her signature that she provides on all of her portraits and how she keeps herself grounded to never compromise her artistic values. For Aquil, "MYK" is the name of his art movement in which he defines what art is to himself, and his call to action for other artist who believe in his vision for art.
Together these two entrepreneurs, master artist CRS and griot and writer Aquil, combined their artistic strengths to create a space for collaboration between local black artist who are looking to combine their individual artistic strength with others to create thought provoking and generational staple works of art. It is in this way CMYK becomes more than just a combination of these artist, and instead strives to embody a hub for artist of all colors to meld together.
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WHAT IS A COLLABORATEE?
Collaboration is CMYKpresents specialty. We like to focus on working with artist, clients, or investors rather than trying to just complete services or commissions.
Thus, we are a collaboration company. All those who work under the CMYK banner are considered collaborators rather than employees, and all those who wish to partner with CMYK for a particular project are what we call "collaboratees". The terms collaborator and collaboratee for CMYK is loosely based off of the relationship between the words mentor and mentee. Being that we are specialist in the field of collaboration, we strive to broaden the perspectives of fellow future partners in a new direction that working with fellow artist, clients, and investors can be.
WANT TO BE INVOLVED?
At CMYKpresents, we look for the dreamers who artistically envision a world of their design and have a goal to share that vision at all cost. It is through this goal that they strive to create the best art that they can with the highest intention of using it to advance the human race. These philosophers use art as more than just a way to express themselves, but as an avenue to share their personal philosophy and lessons they have learned during their journey on earth, and beyond! It is through these shared dreams that we as viewers are able to become our best selves, which leads to our tagline: dreams are best shared.
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If you are interested in sharing your unique stories, and helping others do the same, we welcome you dreamer. Become a Callaboratee today!