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Three deep red African masks grouped closely together with carved facial markings and elongated forms. This symbol represents the Bespokecurry Cosmos as multiplicity, ancestral signal, layered identities, collective memory, and interconnected creative worlds.
Geometric red triangle symbol beside a single vertical slash against black space. This symbol represents Trans Learn Tings as transition, rupture, self-definition, nonlinear becoming, and frameworks for learning beyond imposed systems.
Bright green spiral snail with textured shell and soft glowing body resting against a pale background. This symbol represents Mbegu ya Ardhi, “Seed of the Earth” in Swahili, as the Bespokecurry blog space for slow growth, grounded learning, observation, embodied writing, and ideas unfolding over time through lived experience.
Deep maroon fish with green and coral red markings, facing forward like a small signal moving through water. This symbol represents The Knewsletter as recurring messages, updates, and living transmissions from the Bespokecurry cosmos.
Blue and green shell-slug form with ridged texture and a soft glowing outline. This symbol represents the Embodiment Diagram as structure, sensation, regulation, and inner movement held inside the body.
Multicolored school of small fish moving together in layered rows. This symbol represents the Members Area through collective movement, shared direction, community rhythm, and many bodies traveling through the same current.

Bespokecurry Cosmos

Circular bracelet made of glowing multicolored cowrie shells and translucent beads arranged in a continuous loop. The bracelet represents adornment, material culture, ancestral connection, object-based storytelling, and wearable archives within Bead & Cowrie.
Green and red jellyfish with long trailing tendrils and a glowing outline. This symbol represents the Wata(ring) W(hole) through flow, depth, unseen systems, drift, sting, and water memory.
Yellow and red octopus with curling arms and textured detail. This symbol represents About Kiing Curry through intelligence, multiplicity, self-awareness, creative reach, and many forms moving from one body.
Circular afro-like form paired with flowing water lines in magenta, green, and violet tones. This symbol represents the Afroscape Field Guide as embodied Black knowledge, Afro theory, hair and body systems, texture, atmosphere, and living archives of the self.
Claymation-style Black scuba diver with bright orange curls floating underwater in colorful diving gear with bubbles rising beside them. This symbol represents the Bespokecurry Cosmos paid subscription space as deep exploration, immersive learning, protected creative worlds, and guided movement through the layered waters of embodiment, theory, art, and transformation.
Green and violet Wata(ring) Homie with pointed braids radiating like a sunburst, serving as a navigation button to The Afro ABCs page.
Three flowing wave lines in layered blue and green gradients floating against black space. This symbol represents the Six Waters and The Wata(ring) Whole as movement, emotional drift, embodiment, atmospheric flow, and interconnected states of being across the Bespokecurry cosmos.
Small multicolored fish moving together in layered schools across open space. This symbol represents The Tings as interconnected categories, moving parts, collective knowledge systems, and many small ideas traveling together through the Bespokecurry waters.
Flowing water lines beside a radiant starburst partially surrounded by a soft blue cloud form. This symbol represents the Terpene Index as aromatic atmosphere, sensory mapping, vapor, plant chemistry, and environmental mood systems moving through the body.
Deep red seahorse with curled tail and textured body floating in open space. This symbol represents the Bespokebook Portfolio as curated creative work, intentional display, archival storytelling, and carefully held artistic worlds.
Deep maroon and chocolate stingray with a long tail and glowing gold texture. This symbol represents BlaxkCurry Productions through grounded movement, quiet power, deep knowledge, and gliding creative force
Flowing water lines beside a dark radiant starburst with grounding bar beneath it in earthy brown and green tones. This symbol represents Fungi Tings as layered ingestion, underground transformation, decomposition, fungal intelligence, and deep internal processing beneath the surface.
Bright green and deep red crab with raised claws and wide stance floating against black space. This symbol represents The Lab as sideways thinking, testing systems, experimentation, structural disruption, and unconventional pathways of knowledge.
Deep maroon and chocolate stingray with a long tail and glowing gold texture. This symbol represents BlaxkCurry Productions through grounded movement, quiet power, deep knowledge, and gliding creative force
Bright orange cephalopod with curling tentacles and glowing blue edges floating against black space. This symbol represents Litm(us) and Black Beauty School as transformation through chemistry, fluid identity, Black beauty knowledge, body experimentation, texture, color theory, and the constant reshaping of self through creative practice and embodiment.
Three flowing wave lines beside a radiant starburst symbol in purple and blue gradients. This symbol represents Six Waters Cannabis Field Notes as ingestion, altered sensing, embodiment, atmospheric expansion, and cannabis moving through the waters of the body.
Small green and deep red sea snail-like organism with a large eye and soft rounded body. This symbol represents The Exploration as wandering, adaptive learning, curiosity, experimentation, and movement through unknown waters.
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Colorful illustrated portrait of Kiing Curry with their hand beneath their chin, representing Public Work — Media, Exhibitions + Conversations, an archive of interviews, articles, podcasts, panels, exhibitions, films, and public scholarship.

2015-Current

Public Work — Media, Exhibitions + Conversations

KIINGS RESUME

Kiing (Amber) Curry


Julie Williams Southern Curls

https://youtu.be/c7sJMmQgPRs?si=AMARGOp_4540iP9P

Jessy Wilson Phase the Film

https://youtu.be/oHwWCPzk4oA?si=w4PjLEhfX3Ln0e-y

Huff Post with Sage Howard

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/natural-hair-curl-pattern-chart_n_64637ff7e4b094269bb6afac

Huddled Masses Bespokecurry

https://www.huddledmassesproject.com/models/curry

WPLN NPR Interview

https://wpln.org/post/nashville-hairstylist-wants-to-elevate-the-craft-of-styling-black-hair-and-wash-out-euro-centric-focus/

Black Beauty School National Interview

https://www.npr.org/2021/07/04/1012978283/tennessee-beauty-school-teaches-importance-of-working-with-black-hair

Eloquii Black Creators Project

Black Beauty School

BAARE

The Lab

Bespokecurry Cosmos - A Traveling Community Center

Bead + Cowrie Jewelry

Litm(us) - A Community Conversation on Afro Hair

Navigating Spaces as a Black Woman in Business

Your My Favorite Book: Living Literature

Nobody Asked for This

Talkin Trans (archived)

Women of Color Unite Los Angeles

HibiscUS: Soul Food Sudani Sounds of Blackness

Mirror Mirror Panel Discussion hosted by Lemon Laine and The Congress Club

Mirror, Mirror Podcast

News Channel 4 Nashville Black Beauty School Feature

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