Picture The Culture: ‘Hip Hop Beauty’ Exhibition Heads To Texas Southern University

Source: iONE / otherHip-hop’s influence on beauty is getting its close-up at Texas Southern University, celebrating the culture’s influential visual trailblazers. According to a press announcement, Hip Hop Beauty Circa 1973 will bring its photography exhibition to Houston November 12–20, opening at 3 p.m. CST. Co-founders Ashunta Sheriff-Kendricks and Thembisa S. Mshaka are closing out their 2026 exhibition run with support from presenting sponsors HelloBeautiful and Hip-Hop Wired, alongside Ashunta Sheriff Beauty, Mshaka Media and Marc Harvey Beauty. “Thembisa S. Mshaka and Ashunta Sheriff-Kendricks are the kinds of real-world experts who will encourage and inspire our students,” TSU associate dean Dr. Michon Benson said. The show includes photographs of Erykah Badu, Ms. Lauryn Hill and Janelle Monáe, with artwork by Keith Major, Stacy Gray, Mazi Smazi and Traci Bartlow available for purchase.For the founders, documenting those images is part of a much larger mission. Hip Hop Beauty Circa 1973 celebrates the people whose creativity helped shape the culture’s visual identity, placing beauty professionals and image makers within the history they helped create. “Hip-Hop Beauty is equ...