Known in cre­ative cir­cles as the ex­ec­u­tive di­rec­tor of non-prof­it arts, so­cial change and cul­tur­al ex­change or­gan­i­sa­tion, CFAFF/For Com­mon Good and founder of East Trinidad’s pop­u­lar cul­tur­al space and so­cial en­ter­prise, East Yard—where he car­ries out his cu­ra­to­r­i­al prac­tice—Kevon Gareth Foder­ing­ham is al­so a per­son­al brand vi­sion­ing coach for cre­ative en­tre­pre­neurs and vi­su­al artists with a so­cial­ly en­gaged art and coach­ing prac­tice, dubbed The I AM Ex­per­i­ment; the de­sign­er of an ap­par­el and ac­ces­sories line; and now, a first time au­thor.

On Ju­ly 3, Foder­ing­ham will show­case his work and launch his first book, Things I Learned In My Thir­ties—Mo­ti­va­tion­al Mus­ings for Cre­ative Mil­len­ni­als; screen a short film, I AM and present a KF x Kevon Foder­ing­ham menswear cap­sule col­lec­tion at an event ti­tled “An Evening with Kevon.”

Foder­ing­ham said, “I have cho­sen the moniker of art and so­cial change ad­vo­cate, which means that I am deeply com­mit­ted to pro­mot­ing and cre­at­ing work that ad­dress­es press­ing so­cial is­sues and changes the way we see the world. For my own prac­tice I am now us­ing my vi­su­al art, writ­ing, fash­ion and film to sup­port oth­er cre­atives around the world.”

PEACE-ful (2022) by Kevon Gareth Foderingham

He said a per­cent­age of rev­enue from his art, books, fash­ion de­signs and films will be used to es­tab­lish a fund to pro­vide sup­port to black, in­dige­nous, (and) peo­ple of colour (BIPOC) cre­atives deemed most in need from se­lect coun­tries across the world, who will be able to ap­ply for small bur­saries to sup­port a par­tic­u­lar cre­ative ven­ture.

Foder­ing­ham al­so re­vealed that some of the rev­enue will al­so be rein­vest­ed in­to The I AM Ex­per­i­ment.

He ex­plained that the fund will be man­aged by East Yard En­ter­pris­es and ad­min­is­tered through CFAFF/For Com­mon Good.

“I have be­come so ac­cus­tomed to cu­rat­ing and pro­mot­ing the work of oth­ers and have nev­er show­cased my own work to this ex­tent. I am ex­cit­ed and feel blessed that I am not on­ly able to share my work with the wider world but al­so use it to make a dif­fer­ence,” he said.

The Kin­dle ver­sion of Things I Learned In My Thir­ties is now avail­able for pre-or­der on Ama­zon, with pa­per­back copies al­so avail­able via Ama­zon and at East Yard from Ju­ly 4, 2022.

The I AM Ex­hi­bi­tion, short film and fash­ion de­signs will be on dis­play to the pub­lic at East Yard from Ju­ly 4 - Ju­ly 9.

Cover of the book Things I Learned In My Thirties written by Kevon Gareth Foderingham