SHENEQUA—Handwoven Reflections on Identity: Artist Conversation
@ The Art Institute of Chicago
111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Saturday, January 11th, from 2PM - 3PM
As a weaver of synthetic hair and other fiber materials, Chicago-based artist SHENEQUA creates art objects that explore the dynamism of Black identity, beauty, and culture. In Identity Column III, a piece made in collaboration with Germane Barnes for the exhibition Germane Barnes: Columnar Disorder, SHENEQUA draws on Black diasporic craft practices to articulate her reverence for history, community, worldmaking, and ancestral memory and presence.
Join SHENEQUA and artist/scholar Nnaemeka Ekwelum for a conversation about the intersection of craft, culture, and decolonial narratives in both Columnar Disorder and SHENEQUA’s broader body of work.
SHENEQUA is an Afro-Caribbean multi-disciplinary artist and teaching artist who received her masters of design in the department of Fashion, Body, & Garment at School of the Art Institute of Chicago under the mentorship of Nick Cave. As the founder of Weave Your Dreams Into Reality Studios LLC., she shares her stories with the world one thread at a time drawing on the craft of weaving, her familial background, conversations, and the Ghanaian experience.
Nnaemeka (Emeka) Ekwelum is a transnational and multidisciplinary researcher, artist, curator and educator from Boston, MA. As a PhD candidate in the department of Black Studies at Northwestern University, his scholarly and creative work examine how friendship and collaborative art making can help to amplify social and cultural narratives that thoughtfully respond to the political conditions of Black life globally.
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