Tag: Art & Ecology
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Breaking Ground in the Hell-strip
Breaking Ground in the Hell-strip The Stiles Center is honored to have received funding from Denver Arts & Venues PS You Are Here program for gardens in the ‘hell-strip’ around the center. Join us as we establish no-water, stone crevice gardens that explore historical plant relationships held by African Americans. Through a series of themed…
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The Stiles African American Heritage Gardens
One of the most inspiring people for me as a young artist growing up in Denver was Grace Stiles, founder of the Stiles African American Heritage Center in Five Points. For over 40 years, she had taught in the Denver Public Schools and was dismayed at the history book representation of African Americans being little…
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Printmaking at Green Olive Arts
Summer 2022 – Tetouan, Morocco As we explored the living history of Acequias in the Rif, we collected plants that thrived along the networks of waterways and outcroppings in the area. Our studio time was focused on making impressions of these plants on the press provided by Green Olive Arts. Instead of making individual plates,…
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Mountains Beyond Mountains
Restoration Liberation2019 Ghetto Biennial Katelyn Alexis + Getho Jean Baptiste + Wesner Bazile + Rossi Jacques Casimir + Noel Edgard aka Papouche + Lee Lee + Mimi Sheller + moira williams We are exploring historic connections between Maine and Haiti with a series of workshops and performances; looking at the entangled mobilities between plant-human and…
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Sea Shanties and SEED Stories
Celebrating the new gardens designed and built by Lee Lee at the Pendleton House, the beds set the stage for a display of Haitian artworks and maritime paintings during first Blue Hill Maritime Heritage Festival. In consideration of the historic use of the building to house sailors who needed temporary housing between seafaring journeys, garden…
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Tchaka
Collisions between Haitian food sovereignty & US food policy IMMACULA Immacula Cadet grew up in Port-Au-Prince. When she was young, her family would go to the countryside of Cayes to dance with Papa Loko several times a year. They would celebrate the father of the Hougan priesthood by offering red liquor and cake. The most…