M’Dear: Exploring the Black Maternal Exhibit
Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts (MoCADA) / May- Oct 2023
M'Dear: Exploring the Black Material is a multi-media exhibition of paintings, sculpture, photography, textile art, video, audio/oral pieces and installations honoring the great Mother, the Matriarch, the feminine present throughout the diasporic community. Works in the exhibition seek to capture the essence and the power of the Great Mother, the nurturer, the negotiator, the inter-mediator and savior, The exhibit pushes the viewer to reconsider the wisdom, power and grace of M'Dear who's council is needed in this chaotic climate. She is essential and critical in the fight and preservation of our collective humanity.
Curated by: Crystal Whaley
https://mocada.org/mdear-the-black-maternal/
Video Rendering of Exhibit ~ https://drive.google.com/file/d/1f2aHQ5wlLiayaairKjfYgRwA4AF8lMa6/view?usp=sharing
MFON: Women Photographers of the African Diaspora Presents Altar, Ritual, Offerings
Photoville in NYC 2018 & Photoville in LA 2019
Various Artists
MFON: Women Photographers of the African Diaspora presents ALTAR: Prayer, Ritual, Offerings. The visual association of altars are often akin to spiritual pedestals; sites where rituals are enacted, places of sacrificial endowment. Altars are often erected to pay homage to an ancestor or to honor God or a saint. This exhibition takes the altar out of its religious context and interrogates photography as a practice containing the same attributes as altars. The images presented in this exhibition examines several religious traditions that have originated in and/or practiced on the African continent and throughout the world. “ALTAR” also centers love and meditation as a spiritual practice. In this exhibition, we regard the final product—the photograph—as the altar. The context, process, and content of the photographs fulfill the attributes, ritual, sacrifice and offerings.
Curated by: Laylah Amatullah Barrayn, Adama Delphine Fawundu
Assistant Curator: Crystal Whaley
Video Rendering of Exhibit: https://v21artspace.com/altar-prayer-ritual-offerings-photoville-2018
FOR US, BY US
Long Gallery Harlem – Jan/Feb 2017, 2018, 2019 & 2020
Various Artists
Howard University Alumni Club of Greater New York fundraising Bison Art Show in partnership with Long Gallery Harlem featuring alumni artists, with a percentage of proceeds benefiting incoming Howard University students.
Curated by: Crystal Whaley
