Fiber Art Now’s Excellence In Fibers VI.
Virtual online exhibition on view on New Bedford Art Museum’s website HERE through March 2021. I am in the Sculptural artist group.
Baggage Cart Statement
We all carry emotional baggage Naturally; these manifests differently for each of us. Some of us carry suitcases of pain and bitterness while some of us just have a backpack. As an empath, I carry a lifetime of disappointments and racial traumas.
Being alive means having the capacity to carry past experiences and learn from them. But there’s a point when this baggage becomes too much. Carrying too much emotional baggage can literally stop us from being open to new experiences, intimacy and growth.
How we choose to handle our baggage makes a difference. We have the choice to let it define us or to let it go and move forward.
My baggage carts are designed as a vessel for racial and class traumas. My baggage carts serve…
- to separate myself from these experiences.
- to grant access to grace.
- to create a new possibility for myself, free from the constraints of the past.
Emotional Baggage Carts
See this quick tour of my studio of to see my recent woven Baggage Carts. And listen to meaning and memories embedded in these new works.
New Artist Statement
Utilizing 100-foot extensions of rope, twine, and yarn impeccably wrapped, woven, tied and embellished with recycled beads, ribbon, lace, tape and bottle cap bobbles, I lure you into her hue-imbued, enmeshed installations symbolizing natural hair. My bold, albeit whimsically twisted and locked forms gingerly invite the audience into off the-wall conversations about micro aggressions against black women and their hair.
Using personal conflict as a starting point, I juxtapose various fibers with a variety of found materials using free form weaving, coiling, knotting, wrapping and jewelry making techniques. Meticulously collected materials, transformed by their collective memory become “social fabric” weaving together contemporary issues and personal narratives.
Community art making is also key to my process. Multi-disciplinary experiences pairing people, food, wine, music and art, create a safe space to explore themes such as equity & inclusion, sustainability and personal wellbeing.
Antenna Grant for Women in the Arts
The Antenna Grant for Women in the Arts offers financial support and mentorship for young women of color pursuing an education, training, and/or career in the visual arts (sculpture, 2-dimensional work, drawing, painting, textiles, film, installations, murals, etc).
Awards are based on artistic merit, evidence of commitment to a career in the arts, and financial need.
Applications for the Antenna Grant for Women in the Arts will be accepted until March 24.
For more details visit the website HERE.
Teal Baggage Cart
CLOSING RECEPTION for The Bridge
Saturday March 6, 2021 @ 1:00-4:00pm
LOCATION: The Gallery Space, 1670 Irving St, Rahway NJ
Upcoming Artist Talks
Thursday, March 4, 2021 at 7-8pm The Center for Contemporary Art virtual studio visit. Register here.
Friday, March 5, 2021 6-9pm Weave Weird Baggagecarts JC Friday. Register here.
Please save these dates. Registration links forthcoming.
Thursday, May 27, 2021 7-9pm Microaggressions MoCADA Artist Talk
Saturday, June 12, 2021 3-5pm Microaggressions MoCADA Workshop
Virtual Studio Visit 3/4
I am the third prize & solo exhibition winner in the International Juried Exhibition, Victor Davson, juror.
Join me for a virtual studio visit to see what Ive been up to this past year on Thursday March 4th @ 7:00pm ET.
Registration fee is free for members of The Center for Contemporary Art and $15 for non-members.
Weave Weird Baggage Cart JC Fridays
The next JC Fridays is March 5, 2021.
Virtual JC Fridays will take place on Zoom! There will be one online event showcasing all that Jersey City has to offer, hosted by Art House Productions. I’ll be showing my baggage carts.
Free, advance registration is required to receive the Zoom link. Register HERE
