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Greetings to all of you, my name is Crystal Hanton, as many of you know I am a proud artist of many genres such as figurative art, nude art, photography, symbolism, and decorative art. I was born, raised, and still based out of Harlem, New York City. I currently work for the department of education and when I realize was from my pre-school years through adolescence ...I was always intrigued and stimulated by art. Even now as a young adult.. artistic expression is still my outlet to motivate myself and others. I have come to know that ART brings forth change and opportunity . Whether I am telling a story visually, or on stage acting, or spreading love onto the canvas...my purpose is to bring forth quality art to inspire the viewer and to continue to inspire future generations . I am both self-taught and educated...very determined to achieve my dreams and goals. I struggled to put myself through Hunter College with a Bachelors Degree in Fine Arts & Theatre and I recently graduated with my Masters Degree in Education. 

My Crystal Hanton Art Exhibit (CHAE) team and I are working hard on, an upcoming art exhibit entitled "Black Love", an Afrocentric dedication to the value of affection and continuity of adoration in families. We are looking to raise funds from now through January 31, 2016 to accommodate our goal of tastefully keeping arts and culture in the community. With over twenty-five pieces needing to be on display, purchases of different canvas, paints, brushes, plus catered food, refreshments, flyer distribution for the event, also for my art book that I would like to publish the need for fundraising is crucial. Without proper funding my idea will fall into obscurity, and I truly not only want to keep art alive in the community, but I need to respectively convey the message that love remains alive and thrilling for the new millennium we occupy. I know I can get through this but I find myself reaching out for help to at least cover my material costs each month. I need the funds as soon as possible. I paint commissioned work as well as decorative art, fine art. 

It may seem a small thing, helping someone purchase new tools for their career, but for an artist with student loans, any new technology or tool is a luxury not easily afforded. I appreciate any support that you can offer and every dollar will be cherished and well spent on helping me advance my craft, so that I may produce more work on a more frequent basis for your enjoyment. 

If you'd like to view more of my current work and paintings, I post fairly frequently on instagram : https://www.instagram.com/crystalhantonart

Thank you so much and advance for your support and for taking the time to read my story and for helping out an artist. 

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Black Essence Documentary

Black Essence

BLACK   ESSENCE ( for Cyrstal)

 Deep

She digs

Into the the darkness of

Uncertainties

The unspoken-ness of

Mysteries

Circulating in dark

Whispering winters and

 blossoming organic summers

bursting eagerly thru

the ripening fullness of spring, and

the dancing leaves of fall

in the silence

she digs……deep……deeper

into the un-nurtured

bottomless pits of anguish

and pulls out the essence….

drip by

daring drip of

ink

 color

oiled- fingerprints

stamping firmly

the essence of

……..who we were

Before we became

…….who we are

Wakening,

Yawning

Blinking

At one another

In full acknowledgement

Of our curvaceous lips and tongues... dominating chins

That rise from proudly anchored neck bones

 Defined shoulders, triceps, biceps and breasts engorged

With the sweet milk and honeydew of life

Steadily replenishing itself without nobody telling it to do so

So natural

So real

So eternal

It can’t be bottled

Because it is…LOVE

“You know….the blackness of our essence”

Chiseled deep in blue-black fluorescence

The past

And the present

DNA in Ocean water “elegance”

wrapped in seaweeds of lessons

for us to remember to tell the babies

tell them children that we are……. from the shores of Ghana

the Ivory Coast, Cape town and Ethiopia, Nigeria and Sierre Leone

from dynasties of Egyptian Kings and Queens

who tried to keep sacred forever ancestral dreams, yet

the stories from in-side the pyramid walls

cannot be erased yall...

no one can rid us

of our connection to the root of it all

dig…..deep

deep…..dig

no…    tiny….   figs

BLACK  ESSENCE

Is

The tallest tree

 in the garden

It is the root of the fruit

And the saliva on the tongue

It is the chromosome that cannot be cloned

If you don’t got it

You don’t got it

Black

Deep

Dig

Deep

Essence

©gha’il Rhodes Benjamin, 2014

In celebration of Crystal Hanton’s

BLACK ESSENCE EXHIBIT

                 

Crystal Hanton Chosen to Exhibit Her Art in a Solo Show: BLACK ESSENCE

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

NEW YORK CITY, NY – November 4, 2014/ –Artist Crystal Hanton is the cream of the crop. Born and raised in Harlem her first NYC exhibit, an abstract series “BLACK ESSENCE” was chosen for a solo art exhibition at AKWA UNISEX GROOMING, 923 Fulton Street, between Clinton Avenue and Waverly Avenue in Brooklyn, NY. The OPENING PARTY will be on Sunday, November 9, 2014 from 6:00 pm- 9:30 pm. Ms. Hanton exudes talent, creativity; confidence and a strong elaborate understanding of the world she lives in. In difference mediums such as inks, acrylic, and oil, she allows you to see the world through her own eyes. This young artist is very aware of life’s major intersections, tragedies, disappointments, and love stories. She shares with us her worries and her secret, her confidence and a keen knowledge of past, present and future in BLACK ESSENCE. The exhibit will be up from November 1, 2014 - December 1, 2014.

For further information about Crystal Hanton work including dates and times for exhibition showing, please visit her website at www.crystalhanton.com or email crystalhanton@gmail.com.

The exhibition is organized by Curator Rahkeem.

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Contact Information:

Crystal Hanton

Email Address: crystalhanton@gmail.com

Website: www.crystalhanton.com

General Information:

AKWA GROOMING
923 FULTON ST. BROOKLYN, NY 11238
akwagroomingbk@gmail.com

Tel: 718-942-7597

www.akwagrooming.com

Hours:

Monday: 11am-7pm

Tuesday to Sat: 9am-10pm

Sunday: 11am-7pm

Crystal Hanton Exhibition

Crystal Hanton

Crystal when she was younger.

Little Me

Always trying to be slick!

Crystal was in the process of doing Natasha hair, while trying to be slick by video taping her. But of Natasha could not be fooled. Crystal could not help but to laugh while trying to play cool but Natasha ain't no fool.LOL

PEEPSHOW

(2008-present), Super 8, length variable

Synopsis: A collection of short sex shows on Super 8 film.

These films use the eye of the camera as the hole through which viewers experience an intimate show. Each show must somehow relate to the sexual but does not require nudity.

Each participant designs his or her own peepshow. Every show is shot on one roll of Super 8 color film.

Over 30 peepshows have been filmed. Please contact me if you are interested in being part of the project. 

A Breathless Murder

Young Street- Im On It

After watching "Colored Girls"

Crystal Hanton with members from the original cast of Colored Girls which was performed at Wadleigh Secondary School 10 years ago.

Fool For Love

August: Onsage County

Crystal's actors rehearsing a scene from August: Onsage County. the show will be going up at the end of the year.

Ruby Irick

Hell House

Crystal Hanton played a raver in the club scene. This scene is set at the home of a popular high school basketball star, Ty Tyler. Pat “Say-jack-you-up” is present with his two contestants: Drug Addiction and Alcohol Addiction. They are there to battle for the ultimate prize. Things quickly get out of hand, and a drug and alcohol fatality kills the party

Hell houses are haunted attractions typically run by American, fundamentalist Christian churches or parachurch groups. These depict sin, the torments of the damned in Hell, and usually conclude with a depiction of heaven. They are most typically operated in the days preceding Halloween.

A hell house, like a conventional haunted-house attraction, is a space set aside in which actors attempt to frighten patrons with gruesome exhibits and scenes. The format is that the various scenes are presented as a series of short vignettes with a narrated guide. Unlike haunted houses, hell houses focus on occasions and effects of sin or the fate of unrepentant sinners in the afterlife. They are scheduled during the month of October to capitalize on the similarities between hell houses and haunted attractions.

The exhibits at a hell house often have a controversial tone and focus on sins that are also issues of concern to evangelicals in the United States. Hell houses frequently feature exhibits that depict sin and its consequences. Common examples include abortion, suicide[1], use of alcoholic beverage and other recreational drugs, adultery and pre-marital sex, occultism, homosexuality, and Satanic ritual abuse. Hell houses typically emphasize the belief that anyone who does not accept Christ as their personal savior is condemned to Hell.

History
The first hell house, Scaremare (still presented each October) was created by Jerry Falwell in the late 1970s[2]. Similar events began in several regions during that period. More recently, the concept has been promoted and adapted by Keenan Roberts, originally of Roswell, New Mexico, who started a hell house in Arvada, Colorado in 1995. Since that time, hell houses have become a regular fixture of the Halloween season in parts of the United States. Roberts remains active in the hell house ministry by providing kits and directions to enable churches to perform their own attractions[3]. He is now the senior pastor of Destiny Church of the Assemblies of God where Hell House is usually performed each year during the month of October.

In October 2000, documentary filmmaker George Ratliff filmed a production of a Hell House in Cedar Hill, Texas from scripting to the final night of the production[4]. The result was a documentary[5] that has been the inspiration for numerous live plays and hell-house performances, including one based on Pastor Roberts' production, which played for a month during the 2006 Halloween season in an off-Broadway production in Brooklyn, New York by Les Freres Corbusier[6][7]

In October 2003 Bethel Church in Temple, Texas began "Temple Hell House". Bethel continues to conduct a hell house every year under the direction of youth pastor Matt Baumgartner and hosts around 3,000 people every year from the Central Texas area.

Criticism
Hell houses have been criticized for misleading potential patrons that they are a conventional Halloween attraction rather than an evangelistic presentation.[citation needed] They are also often criticized within the Christian community as being too focused on the number of conversions rather than long lasting commitments to Christianity[8].

In an interview with Roberts for the Channel 4 documentary The Root of All Evil?, noted atheist and evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins objected to some of the methods used by Hell Houses; namely teaching by instilling the fear of eternal damnation in children and adolescents. He commented that using the concept of hell for moral policing was child abuse, since children walk away with nightmares and extreme fear. Coming in for particular attack by Dawkins is the question of how the pastor can be certain that the morals and ethics being preached in the Hell House are valid – since they are based on religious scripture.

Happy Birthday to You

Sample Paintings

Christmas 2009 Photos

Changes ( Trailer)