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Stiles African American Heritage Gardens

Spring Garden Workshops: Follow the Stars

Saturdays, April 13th & May 18th, 2-4p
Attend either session or both

Participants will learn how to create cast cement stepping stones. Together as a community, we will embed them with natural materials in motifs inspired by the designs described in Jacqueline L. Tobin’s book, Hidden in Plain View: a Secret Story of Quilts and the Underground Railroad. Coded patterns that offered guidance along the path to freedom. The cast cement stepping stones will be set as a path to guide visitors through the gardens, inviting them to pause and learn about plants collected in these grounds, including many that were used as food and medicine along the Underground Railroad.

MIGRATIONS – Call for Art

Share ideas by August 31st, 2024

Learn about the Great Migration through artworks created by Jacob Lawrence.
Explore the range of birds who migrate these same routes year after year.
Create artworks representing these birds in the style Jacob Lawrence used to show the compressed spaces of industrial-urban centers his figures navigated as they sought a better life.
Consider these works will be installed outdoors, in the Stiles Gardesn over the summer.

Honorarium given to selected artists

Reception: SATURDAY, September 14th | 2-4pm
Stiles African American Heritage Center
2607 Glenarm Place, in the heart of Five Points
Kala: 720-276-0741

*Jacqueline Withers: Sky Painting – acrylic on canvas 2023*
On view in the Stiles African American Heritage Gardens, Five Points, Denver

Acequia
El Agua es la Vida – Water is Life

*Poem by Thatcher Gray Leonard*
*Monoprint created at Green Olive Arts, Tetouan Morocco*

TAOS | New Mexico
The Distillery sits on Los Lovatos ditch, one of five active Acequias in the Taos area, installed by Spanish settlers over 300 years ago.

Tetouan | Morocco
Origins of Acequia practices: the Rif
Residency at Green Olive Arts summer 2022

Blanca | Spain
Explorations of Acequias installed in this valley by Maghreb settlers who arrived on the Iberian Peninsula in the 9th century. The ‘huerta’ was their last stronghold before being pushed back into Morocco.
Residency at AADK July 2023

Mulatamicuwon | MAINE

SEED Barn & Maine Fieldworks

SEED | Haiti

A series of projects created for the Ghetto Biennial that examines food security, cultivating grounds in the central redzones in Port-Au-Prince, historical relationships with plant medicines and the culinary arts practiced along the Grand Rue.