What is ArtREV & Co?
ArtREV & Co is a black-owned, multi-disciplinary creative firm that defines black diaspora through fashion, art, music, and culture.
ArtREV & Co was first introduced into the industry in late 2013 as an online blog/magazine that merged with partnered company, VON HAUS & Co, in 2016 that relaunched fully as a creative firm. The company is mainly known for interviewing up and coming freelancers in the industry and collaborating with major clients such as AFROPUNK, High Museum of Art, Tyler Perry Studios, Simon Malls, New York Fashion Week and many more. We offer 20 different services designed to commodate every person of color's needs within the fashion, art, music, entertainment and cultural affairs industries.
ArtREV & Co was first introduced into the industry in late 2013 as an online blog/magazine that merged with partnered company, VON HAUS & Co, in 2016 that relaunched fully as a creative firm. The company is mainly known for interviewing up and coming freelancers in the industry and collaborating with major clients such as AFROPUNK, High Museum of Art, Tyler Perry Studios, Simon Malls, New York Fashion Week and many more. We offer 20 different services designed to commodate every person of color's needs within the fashion, art, music, entertainment and cultural affairs industries.
Travon M. Bracey
Founder, Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Senior Creative Director
Travon Bracey is a Creative Director & Multidisciplinary Artist. Launching his entrepreneurial career as early as the age of 14, Travon has accomplished many different avenues in the industries of journalism, fashion, art and activism. Educationally, Travon has majored in both Fashion Merchandising and Fashion Marketing & Management. He is a published writer, award-winning photographer, an acclaimed fashion enthusiast, and an essential contemporary artist. In 2013, Travon became one of the co-founders for Africa Fashion Week Atlanta as their Marketing Director. In 2014, he was nominated for an award from the Metro Atlanta Fashion & Beauty Awards in the BEST BLOGGER category. He has made other marks in his career such as being one of the first fashion stylists in Atlanta to showcase a presentation of wardrobe styling work to several major fashion companies & publications during New York Fashion Week in both 2013 & 2014. With all of these talents, Travon launched his fomerly known fashion & art consulting company, VON By TRAVON (later on was renamed VON HAUS & Co) and launched ArtREV in 2013 during college before merging the two companies in 2016. Alongside being the CEO of ArtREV & Co, Travon holds a position as the Fashion Director of The Golden Talent Agency, Marketing Director of 3 Corners Metaphysical Shop and is an official cast member of The Panel ATL Podcast.
Sunni Xolani Ankh
Executive Curator
Sunni Ankh is a Creative Curator, Professional Chef and Serial Entrepreneur. He joined the ArtREV family as an Artistic Director and business partner to Travon Bracey in 2017. While Sunni is known for his creativity and eclectic style, Sunni has professionally been a chef for over 15 years but has included creative curating into his career in the past 5 years or more, working with restraurants, nightclubs/bars, coffee shops, artistic projects and music festivals. In 2014, Sunni signed on as an entrepreneur when he connected with a close friend of his to a co-op opportunity for LGBT individuals entitled PECAN MILK. When he's not operating his milk company or whipping up cuisine dishes, Sunni is assisting with branding as a Branding Manager of his sister's product company, Hill + Daniel Fragrances. In 2020, Sunni launched his own pop-up restaurant, Sunni's Kitchen Table. The pop up is expected to operate in the summer in Atlanta and Dallas, adding the 3rd owned business to his many accomplishments.
Rodney S. Hawkins
Production-At-Large
Rodney S. Hawkins grew up in Burlington Township, New Jersey in the 1990s. R. Hawkins was always an ambitious and blunt child, and his dream since the age of five was to become a star. At the youthful age of twelve, R. Hawkins wrote his first feature child film. Though the script was lost in the constant moving, his spirit did not falter. Rodney graduated from BCIT with his high school diploma as well as his degree in Culinary Arts. After graduating, his hunger for film died out with a new passion, the hunger of people. After years of cooking, and trying to find himself, he finally came back across creating through film. At the age of twenty-three he started making films on an iPhone 6, and is now presently using black magic cinema equipment. Rodney S. Hawkins now builds his Production empire one script at a time. In association with ArtREV, Rodney was nominated for Outstanding Performance in Film & Art for an ArtREV Honorarium Award in 2017. As of July 2020, Rodney joined the team as the new Production-At-Large Director to handle the production of film, art entertainment and cinematography arts for the company.
What are some of the company's accomplishments?
- In 2017, ArtREV launched the Honorarium Awards Association, an imprint group of the company that created an online awards program to young professionals of the fashion, art, music, and cultural careers where they were selectively nominated by the group through 14 different categories. The 2017 Honorarium Awards brought a lot of attention and went viral on the internet with over 15,000 submitted votes.
- We were the first publicated media outlet to interview the infamous, Yves Mathieu, a fashion model, musician and LGBT activist that went viral on the internet for his tattooed body and artistic talents in modeling while he was independent.
- The company's CEO, Travon Bracey, was nominated at the Metro Atlanta Fashion & Beauty Awards for BEST BLOGGER IN FASHION, BEAUTY & HAIR category.
- The previous company, VON HAUS & Co, that has now merged with ArtREV & Co, was featured in several luxury fashion presentation shows & projects during New York Fashion Week in February & September of 2014.
- The company has collabored with some of the most essential musical artists of today such as BOSCO, Ravyn Lenae, Nevi Branden & Jade De La Fleur on music video & short film performance art sets.
- The company has curated projects with major companies/organizations such as BRAVO TV, High Museum of Art, MOREHOUSE COLLEGE, GQ Magazine, Africa Fashion Week Atlanta, Tyler Perry Studios and Stud Model Project.
Does ArtREV & Co cover media?
Due to rebranding ourselves in 2019, the company no longer voluntarily covers media unless the company seeks interest based on the company's collaboration with others on projects signed and documented by the company. ArtREV & Co only does interviews (written, print and/or video) in our INTERVIEWS section of the website to continue the spread of acknowledging POC creatives in the fashion, art, music and cultural affair industries.