These forms and shapes are similar to my own practice. I feel seen watching this noir kei ninomiya runway show.
Make Fabric Rope with Me
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.
ArtBall Auction Has Launched
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.
Mini Emotional Baggage Carts @ Affordable Art Show
This week is your last chance to pick out your very on mini emotional baggage cart before they are shipped off for my solo shows in Seattle and Michigan this Spring.
Please join me for the close of the Affordable Art Show at Art House Productions Gallery
Closing Reception: January 27, 6:00pm – 9:00pm
Location: Art House Gallery at The Hendrix – 345 Marin Boulevard (on Marin Blvd between Morgan St and Bay St.)
I Found Chaney
A hybrid of the words for “china” and “money,” chaney is the porcelain shards found in the soil after a hard rain and washed up on the beaches of St. Croix, US Virgin Islands.
I found this shard in The Gut, the riverbed on my property that runs down the Blue Mountain out to the Salt River estuary.
Ceramics, broken in symbolic acts of destruction by slaves, is a symbol of colonial resistance.
I wonder if the tourists buying chaney repurposed into jewellery are aware of the sociopolitical postcolonial critique of colonization and slavery.
For now, I will keep collecting chaney until It is ready to find it’s way into my work….
Best of 2022: Top 5
All things considered 2022 was a good year. Here are a couple highlights for me…
I met so many wonderful people at ExpoChicago at my booth, I am still on endorphin high from my visit to the windy city.
I spent most of my Summer with Art Crawl Harlem at Governors Island and can not wait to do it again this year with a new interactive installation.
It was so fantastic to hang with old friends and new, at my solo art show at Ivy Brown Gallery in the meatpacking district.
Being recognized by ADWeek and my peers for my innovation was surprise and trill for me.
And lastly…. my emotional baggage carts made with Fresh Direct bags were mentioned in the NY Times and got picked up by ArtNet News.
FreshDirect, But Make It Fashion
My Emotional Baggage Carts were featured in New York Times article as one of the inventive examples of designers upcycling and turning FreshDirect plastic totes into trendy accessories and art.
ArtNet News even mentioned my Emotional Baggage Carts sculpture series, addressing the pressures of the pandemic that produced such a surplus of Fresh Direct delivery bags in the first place.
Joyful Resistance: Closing Event
Exhibition Dates: September 8 – October 7
Location: Ivy Brown Gallery; 675 Hudson St, New York, NY
212-925-1111 by appointment
Closing Reception: Friday, October 7, 3:00-5:00pm
Come say goodbye to Joyful Resistance at Ivy Brown Gallery. And your last chance to pick up your own mini Emotional Baggage Cart…
Inside And Out
The Gallery at Hillside Square and the Hillside Square Sculpture Garden is open this fall with a dual show featuring two and three-dimensional works from Peter Allen, Kate Dodd, Jerry Gant, Wendy Letven, myself, and Charlie Spademan.
Please come see my my woven textile work Inside and my emotional baggage cart in the sculpture garden outside. I will be at the Opening Reception, Saturday, October 8, 5:30-7:30pm. Hope to see you there.
Exhibition Dates: October 8- December 16
Location: The Gallery at Hillside Square, 8 Hillside Avenue, Montclair NJ
The Gallery at Hillside Square is open Monday through Friday, 7:00 am – 7:00 pm
Inspired By: Glass Bead Making
I took a glass bead making class as a Girl Scout but it has been a while since I have worked with a torch, marver and glass.
I spent the last couple of months researching and preparing a residency application for the Corning Museum of Glass.
Fingers crossed…