Conceptual Materials Social Practice Artist
Learn to use old textiles or scrap fabric and turn it into rope.
The process is easy, slightly addictive, and most definitely meditative.
Materials provided
Date: JC Friday, March 3rd, 6:00-8:00pm
Location: Art 150, Studio #231, 150 Bay Street, Enter at Provost and 1st Street and ride the elevator to the second floor.
Learn to use old textiles or scrap fabric and turn it into rope.
The process is easy, slightly addictive, and most definitely meditative.
Join me in making rope for an installation at Governors Island Summer 2023 about hair.
Materials provided
Date: JC Friday, March 3rd, 6:00-8:00pm
Location: Art 150, Studio #231, 150 Bay Street, Enter at Provost and 1st Street and ride the elevator to the second floor.
Exhibition Date closes March 5
Location: Mayo Performing Arts Center (MPAC), 100 South Street in Morristown NJ,
Workshop Date: March 3, 6:00-8:00pm
Location: Studio #231 at Art 150, 150 Bay Street.
Enter the building at First Streat and Provost Street and ride the elevator to the 2nd floor.
Exhibition Dates: February 28- March 28
Location: Novartis, One Health Plaza, Building 434 Gallery East Hanover, NJ
Closing Reception: March 28th 6-9pm
Opening Reception: March 16, 6-9pm
Exhibition Dates: March 17 – August 27, 2023
Location: The Morris Museum, 6 Normandy Heights Road Morristown, NJ
Artist Talk: March 22, 12:00-1:00pm
Location: New Jersey State Museum; 205 West State Street Trenton NJ
Exhibition Dates: March 25-May 28, 2023
Location: Schweinfurth Art Center; 205 Genesee St. Auburn, NY 13021
Date: March 28, 2023, 7:00pn ET
Register Here: https://www.lessonface.com/apply/Free-Your-Mind-Public-Textile-Social-Justice-Art-Project
Exhibition Dates: March 28 – April 22, 2023
Location: Ceres Gallery, 547 W 27th Street. #201, New York, NY
Exhibition Dates: April 22, 2023- July 17, 2023
Location: Wa Na Wari, 911 24th Avenue, Seattle WA
Exhibition On View: June 18, 2022 – April 30, 2023
Museum Hours: Tuesday – Sunday, 9 am to 4:45 pm; Closed Mondays & all State Holidays
Location: New Jersey State Museum; 205 West State Street Trenton NJ
Lady Whistledown
Exhibition Dates: May 5- October 2023
Location: Art Crawl Harlem, Governor’s Island
Exhibition Dates: June 22- June 25, 2023
Location: Millersville University, Millersville, PA
Exhibition Dates: July 1, 2023- September 17, 2023
Location: The Lab at Krasl Art Center. 707 Lake Blvd, St Joseph, MI
Great Resignation: Emotional Baggage Cart is being installed in the gallery at Novartis in East Hanover.
Im curious to see what emotional baggage is left behind in my cart by the employees of this the pharmaceutical company…
Location: Novartis, One Health Plaza, Building 434 Gallery East Hanover, NJ
Opening Reception: February 28th, 12-2pm
Closing Reception: March 28th 6-9pm
Admit it.. you were obsessed with BeDazzling too
I am giving a virtual lecture for the Mid Atlantic Fiber Association on March 28 at 7:00pm ET about Free Your Mind.
Free Your Mind is a collection of personal narratives. Participants are invited to share a personal experience with implicit bias to release this story from their personal narrative.
Please join me, registration is Free… HERE
And feel free to share your story HERE
I am very excited to share that I have one of my bottle cap braids is available in the ArtBall auction on Artsy!
This year ArtBall’s event and auction will be benefit Kefeta, a program in Ethiopia that is reaching over two million young people with health, career, education, and financial services.
The auction runs until February 27. Happy bidding.
Do you a have much loved stuffed bear that you are willing to part with?
I am looking for used Teddy Bears of all sizes and condition. I need lots of bears for an upcoming installation.
I will be mummifying each bear with yarn and upcycled textiles preserving the integrity of its inner child.
I can accept drop offs with the doorman for Sky Garden Gallery at 150 Bay Street, Jersey City. Or I can arrange to pick up any donations on Fridays, evenings and on the weekend.
Please comment or DM me to let me know if you have any bears for me. Thank you!
I’m getting a new Free Your Mind net ready to collect microagressions for my upcoming solo show, at Schweinfurth Art Center in Auburn NY
Despite the growing commitment to racial equity, the day-to-day experiences of women of color are not improving. Women of color face similar types and frequencies of microaggressions as they did two years ago – and they remain far more likely than white women to face disrespectful and “othering” behavior.
The weight of these triggers underpins very real consequences… stress, anger, frustration, self-doubt and ultimately feelings of powerlessness and invisibility. These triggers come with a hefty toll of emotional baggage.
Extensions of rope, wrapped, knotted, woven, and embellished with recycled textiles, zip ties, ribbon and yarn, gingerly invite the audience into off-the-wall conversations about the “respectability politics” of black hair. My Emotional Baggage Carts are vessels for this racial trauma. The act of making, weaves the sting of daily microaggressions into the cart, freeing me from these constraints.
More details to follow on the opening and community engagement events… I hope you will be able to join me
One of my favorite things about the Textile Study Group of NY is it’s guest speaker series. Each month a different artist presents images and shares about their art practice.
This month Sopheap Pich, Cambodia’s most internationally prominent contemporary artist in the global art world spoke about his art practice. He is known for working with local materials such as bamboo, rattan, burlap from rice bags, beeswax, and natural pigments gathered from around Cambodia and for creating sculptures that are inspired by bodily organs, vegetal forms, and abstract geometric structures.
I found the knowledge he shared about processing bamboo his sculptures educational, especially as I catalog the natural resources available to me in St. Croix. Lots of ideas are percolating.