Thu 7/9 @ 6-7:30PM
Carmen Lane’s exhibit AMALA: She Could Not Stay (In Their Black Bodies) opened in February at the Praxis Fiber Workshop gallery and was scheduled to run through the end of March. So why a closing ritual now? You know the answer.
Cleveland artist/writer/educator Lane describes herself as a two:spirit African-American and Haudenosaunee (Mohawk/ Tuscarora), whose practice ranges over many artistic and educational areas which “integrate ancestry, legacy, and spirituality and pursue expansion, experimentation and play.”
The show’s artist statement says, “In the Great Lakes Region, an emerging, yet longstanding concern regarding infant mortality and race, specifically for African-American families, has attention. The cost of the legacy of enslavement on our entry and our leaving interrupts — a continual tearing from land. This work examines the relationship between loss, displacement, relocation and the cost of accumulated histories on black gendered bodies that birth.”
The closing ritual, Awaken, will address issues and events that hadn’t happened when the show opened including the COVID-19 pandemic and its outsized impact of the black community, and the murder of George Floyd and the rising tide of resistance to racism that it triggered. Participants will honor those lost to COVID-19, those killed by police and the victims of systemic racism.
Visitors are invited to bring flowers as an offering of remembrance for this window viewing of the installation, and are requested to respectfully wear masks and practie social distancing.
Cleveland, OH 44110
Cleveland, OH 44110