Watching Auntie Mame every Thanksgiving has been a family tradition since I was a kid. This scene were Mame rally’s Agnes to live her best life, resonates with me today as much as it did when I first watched the film eons ago.
Im a National Leaders of Color Fellow
Imposter syndrome was telling me I was not accomplished enough to apply, but then I applied anyway and forgot all about my submission until today…
I just found out I was selected as the U.S. Virgin Islands Fellow for the 2023-24 National Leaders of Color Fellowship Program, representing the Mid Atlantic Arts (MAA) jurisdiction.
The National Leaders of Color Fellowship is a transformative leadership development experience curated by the Western States Arts Federation (WESTAF) to establish multicultural leadership in the creative and cultural sector.
Selected fellows receive access to specialists in the field, strategic learning objectives determined to deepen thought on anti-racist and culturally-oriented leadership practices, and national-level network and cohort building.
Upon completion of the 8 month program, participants transition to alumni status and have opportunities to collaborate in their region as advisors, funding panelists, and/or other professional capacities.
Barbie Hoochie Dress!
I’m about to make this hoochie dress for a couple of my Barbie’s
Meet me in St. Croix USVI
For several years, St Croix has been my island escape from life in NY/NJ. St Croix USVI is my real life. We relocated full time in August 2023 and now call St. Croix home.
Sky Garden Gallery’s instagram account will chronicle the possibility of artful living while rediscovering ourselves and rehabbing our off the grid compound in St. Croix USVI.
Upcoming projects, finish installing outdoor kitchen, replace car port with a 20 foot shipping container garage for McCarty’s tools.
If you want to see what we are up to, give us a follow on @skygardengallery
In the meantime, enjoy the view..
My Work is Transformation
My work transforms fiber, recyclables and other found materials using contemporary craft processes.
I Am A Placemaker
Creative placemaking evokes shared emotions.
Art experiences can transform peoples’ perception of being different into a recognition of being the same, as humans. This inspires mutual trust and understanding, unifying and strengthening community identity and pride.
Post-Disciplinary
I was recently reading an artist statement, where the artist described themselves as post-disciplinary.
Huh? I had to look it up…
Post-disciplinary focuses on the institutional aspects of academia and rejects the need for an organizational division of disciplines.
As a self taught artist, without an MFA, I guess that makes me post-disciplinary too.
Inspired by Purvis Young…
I make my own world…
My social practice builds community through conversation about shared experiences… via story ribbons tied to a net.
Free Your Mind focuses on exposing microaggressions. The community is invited to share a personal experience with bias to release this interaction from their personal narrative.
So far more than 5000 story ribbons have been collected.
The Inventor of The Shopping Cart
Meet Sylvan Goldman, inventor of the shopping cart.
Oklahoma grocery store magnate Sylvan Goldman invented the shopping cart in 1936 — and went on to become a shopping-cart manufacturer and benefactor of many Oklahoma charities and institutions.
(Image: State Museum Collection, Sam Flood Collection, Oklahoma Historical Society)
Learn more about him HERE.