Featured in the recent Mendocino Beacon article here!

“𝙡𝙚𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙩𝙝 𝙗𝙚𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙚 𝙖 𝙝𝙚𝙖𝙫𝙚𝙣” opens November 14th @ 5-7pm at Mendocino Art Center. Across the African Diaspora, our traditions have endured despite systems designed to sever Black people from land, spirit, and tradition. Within our craft traditions, the earth is not simply resource but rather ancestor, collaborator, kin. “let this earth become a heaven” honors that relationship and the knowing that liberation, beauty, and sacredness continually blooms within the very Earth (us) that withstands violence, extraction, and grief.

𝘼𝙩 𝙞𝙩𝙨 𝙝𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙩, 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙚𝙭𝙝𝙞𝙗𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙘𝙚𝙡𝙚𝙗𝙧𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙨 𝙘𝙧𝙖𝙛𝙩 𝙖𝙨 𝙨𝙥𝙞𝙧𝙞𝙩𝙪𝙖𝙡 𝙥𝙧𝙖𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙘𝙚 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙢𝙪𝙣𝙖𝙡 𝙥𝙤𝙬𝙚𝙧. Featuring 13 artists who bring Black craft traditions into their work as a form of world building.

With steady, devoted, weary, rageful, and spirit-led hands they weave, build, dig, shape, thread, and tend to Earthen materials.

Their acts of making become gestures of love; that transform memory, material, and relationship into vessels that call toward heaven.