Courtesy of the recipient
Martin Tsang
Craft Research Fund Grant
,
2021
Grant Recipient
Dr. Tsang’s project is an ethnographic mapping of Afro-Cuban religious bead crafting practiced in North America. He will research the ways that beading is carried out to better understand how beads are important agents of meaning and their making in communal settings furthers religious pedagogy
Selected works
Beaded fan for the orisha of river goddess Oshun, image by M Tsang
Beaded cane-staff for the Afro-Cuban Lucumí deity Orisha Oko. Image by M Tsang.
Beaded cane-staff for the Afro-Cuban Lucumí deity Orisha Oko. Image by M Tsang.
Detail of Altar for the deity or Orisha of Infectious Diseases Babalu Aye. Image by M Tsang
Image of altar for the deity of Orisha, Oshun. Image by M Tsang.
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