Windgate-Lamar Fellowship
2025
I was born on February 11, with a veil over my eyes. I am an African American, multimedia, ceramist, sculptor, and Black futurist, Female Artist. The art I create with my hands, my body, is for the Ancestors, BIPOC, Feminist, LGBTQA+, the religious, the Spiritualist, for the racists, for everyone; stemming from a foundation of healing and love. In Spring 2023, I took my first ceramics course. Before the course, I knew nothing about ceramics, but once I touched clay, I fell in love with it. As I work with clay, I transition into a healing flow, an indescribable experience that feels familiar and natural. Yet, I did not understand the full depth and meaning of my feelings until the summer of 2023 when I traveled to Ghana, Africa, for study abroad and visited a pottery village. To witness these African elder women work with clay was an instantaneous revelation that their mothers had been engaged with this process of creation for thousands of years before them. Then my art made sense; my feelings and emotions were validated. Everything made sense. Now, I incorporate traditional techniques I learned and witnessed in Ghana. I’ve gained other techniques and traditions through research of Indigenous peoples from Japan, Korea, Mexico, and numerous locations in Africa. My work interprets and encapsulates inspiration from these traditional artists who have closely observed and peeled back layers of in-depth meanings, and like them, as long as I breathe, I will forever create and evolve.
Selected works
“Vessel I: Reverie,” 2024, ceramic, terra sigillata, gold luster, 18 in. x 24 in. Photo courtesy of the artist.
“Vessel III,” 2024, ceramic, terra sigillata, gold luster, 24 in. x 36 in. Photo courtesy of the artist.
“untitled,” 2024, hot glue, branches, concrete rubble, 10 ft. x 20 ft. Photo courtesy of the artist.
“untitled (detail),” 2024, hot glue, concrete rubble, branches. Photo courtesy of the artist.
“Vessel IV,” 2024, ceramic, terra sigillata, gold luster, 5 in. x 12 in. Photo courtesy of the artist.
“World Enigma: Verisimilitude,” 2023, mixed media, lavender and eucalyptus-infused wax, Weeping Willow branches, 2 ft. x 4 ft. Photo courtesy of the artist.
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