C’BABI VISUAL ARTS MASTER CLASS ARTIST GSU, 1995 - Visual Arts
C’babi Bayoc is a Visual Artist Illustrator and graduate of GSU. His artwork greatly focuses on family, children, music with designs created with “line, bold color and phunk!” C’babi adopted his name as an acronym of CBABI (CreativeBlack-Artist-Battling-Ignorance) during his time at GSU, from 1992 to 1995. His wife assisted in deciding their last name BAYOC (BlessedAfrican-Youth-Of-Creativity) as something that could be shared with their future children.
HOMECOMING MASTER CLASS ARTISTS
In 1997, Bayoc was approached to exhibit artwork at Dignity House, a transitional housing organization in St. Louis, which was a beneficiary of musician Prince’s Love 4 One Another (L4OA) charity tour. Prince began collecting Bayoc’s work and used C’babi’s “Reine Keis Quintet” as the cover art for his 23rd studio album, “The Rainbow Children,” which was released in 2001. In 1998, C’babi provided caricatures of the featured Artist of the month for Rap Pages magazine, leading to a contract to create the artwork for the cover of the Violator Compilation, Vol.1 album, featuring likenesses of Artists Busta Rhymes, Missy Elliott, LL Cool J, Mobb Deep, Big Pun and more. In 2012, C’babi began his “365 Days with Dad” series, painting positive images of black fatherhood each day for a year. Over the years, C’babi has worked with a variety of clients and families, including Anheuser-Busch, Coca-Cola, New Line Cinema, St. Louis Post-Dispatch and MCA Records. C’babi Bayoc lives in St. Louis, Missouri. The Journey to Becoming a Professional Artist: C’Babi taught avenues of becoming a professional Artist and how to avoid potential pitfalls. Viewers learned how to create a community by reading “who’s in the room,” and practicing your Elevator Speech. The workshop encouraged, ignited, and fostered the motivation to pursue Art as a viable career option. 1 0 H O M E CO M I N G 2 02 0 A RT I ST S R E U N I O N
