A brown ceramic vessel with white grains along its rim sits against a plain light background with text overlays.

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Click here to sign up for the waitlist:&nbsp;<a fr-original-style="" href="https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticketing/waitlist-grains-of-history-a-ceramic-workshop-with-adebunmi-gbadebo" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration-color: currentcolor; -webkit-user-select: auto; box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticketing/waitlist-grains-of-history-a-ceramic-workshop-with-adebunmi-gbadebo</a> Indigo Arts Alliance Mentorship Resident, <a fr-original-style="" href="https://indigoartsalliance.me/artists/adebunmi-gbadebo/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration-color: currentcolor; -webkit-user-select: auto; box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">Adebunmi Gbadebo</a> will guide participants in a hands-on ceramic workshop grounded in the history of rice. Attendees will share a collective meal, and then create individual artworks further investigating the historical and economic impact of rice as an African and plantation crop. This event is currently at capacity. Learn more about Adebunmi:Adebunmi Gbadebo lives and works in Philadelphia, PA. She earned a BFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York and holds a certification in Creative Place Keeping from the NJIT. Her practice is grounded in research and a deep engagement with history, material, and place. Working across ceramics, sculpture and installation, Gbadebo uses historically and culturally significant materials such as indigo dye, human hair collected throughout the African diaspora and hand-dug soil from the grounds of the True Blue plantation in South Carolina. These materials cement an exploration of heritage, centering her family&rsquo;s history of enslavement in the American South while drawing from traditional African pottery techniques connected to her Nigerian ancestry. Through this multidisciplinary approach, her work explores the relationships between land, matter, memory, and the archival record. Gbadebo has been an Artist in Residence at The Clay Studio in Philadelphia and a recipient of the Pew Fellowship in the Arts. She has presented her work at numerous cultural and educational institutions, including the Museum of the African Diaspora and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Recent exhibitions include Watch out for the Ghosts at Nicola Vassell Gallery and Body Vessel Clay, at the Ford Foundation in New York, as well as group exhibitions internationally. Her work is held in major public collections, including the Brooklyn Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston and the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, among others.

Click here to sign up for the waitlist: <a href="https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticketing/waitlist-grains-of-history-a-ceramic-workshop-with-adebunmi-gbadebo" target="_blank">https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticketing/waitlist-grains-of-history-a-ceramic-workshop-with-adebunmi-gbadebo</a> Indigo Arts Alliance Mentorship Resident, <a href="https://indigoartsalliance.me/artists/adebunmi-gbadebo/" target="_blank">Adebunmi Gbadebo</a> will guide participants in a hands-on ceramic workshop grounded in the history of rice. Attendees will share a collective meal, and then create individual artworks further investigating the historical and economic impact of rice as an African and plantation crop. This event is currently at capacity. Learn more about Adebunmi:Adebunmi Gbadebo lives and works in Philadelphia, PA. She earned a BFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York and holds a certification in Creative Place Keeping from the NJIT. Her practice is grounded in research and a deep engagement with history, material, and place. Working across ceramics, sculpture and installation, Gbadebo uses historically and culturally significant materials such as indigo dye, human hair collected throughout the African diaspora and hand-dug soil from the grounds of the True Blue plantation in South Carolina. These materials cement an exploration of heritage, centering her family’s history of enslavement in the American South while drawing from traditional African pottery techniques connected to her Nigerian ancestry. Through this multidisciplinary approach, her work explores the relationships between land, matter, memory, and the archival record. Gbadebo has been an Artist in Residence at The Clay Studio in Philadelphia and a recipient of the Pew Fellowship in the Arts. She has presented her work at numerous cultural and educational institutions, including the Museum of the African Diaspora and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Recent exhibitions include Watch out for the Ghosts at Nicola Vassell Gallery and Body Vessel Clay, at the Ford Foundation in New York, as well as group exhibitions internationally. Her work is held in major public collections, including the Brooklyn Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston and the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, among others.

Indigo Arts Alliance

Grains of History: A Ceramic Workshop with Adebunmi Gbadebo

60 Cove St

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