Fri 2/7 @ 6-9PM
The monthly Walk All Over Waterloo is when the galleries in the Waterloo Arts District keep open their doors late to share new and ongoing shows.
This month you’ll want to make a point to stop in at Praxis Fiber Workshop, whose big front gallery will be hosting the grand opening of M. Carmen Lane’s AMALA: She Could Not Stay (In Their Black Bodies), 2018.
Cleveland artist/writer/educator Lane is 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.” Lane is founder/director of urban retreat center ATNSC: Center for Healing & Creative Leadership and the Buckeye-based Akhsótha Gallery.
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.”
AMALA remains on view through Wed 3/25.
https://praxisfiberworkshop.com
https://mcarmenlane.com