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In Plain Sight, Artspace Lays History Bare

Leah Andelsmith | December 4th, 2018 The first thing to catch my eye is the hair—braids, and ponytails, and puffs. It’s an image of a woman’s head and shoulders that looks almost flat, as if it was created by a stencil and black paint. But it’s a screenprint, not a stencil, which […]

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Dec 7 Review | In Plain Sight/Site

Review | In Plain Sight/Site Curated by Niama Safia Sandy Artspace, 50 Orange Street, New Haven, CT ARTSPACENEWHAVEN.ORG THROUGH MARCH 2, 2019 Adama Delphine Fawundu, In the Face of History (2017-18). Dimensions variable, screenprint on paper. From the exhibition, In Plain Sight/Site. Photographer: Jessica Smolinksi. Months ago, New YorkCity-based anthropologist and curator Niama Safia […]

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PDN: Photo of the Day, Sierra Leone Dreams and Reality

The Sacred Star of Isis and Other Stories, currently on view at The African American Museum in Philadelphia (AAMP), explores the tension between photographer Adama Delphine Fawundu family’s traditional Mende beliefs and Westernized values. Based in Brooklyn, New York, Fawundu is of Sierra Leonean heritage and her ancestors are Mende, one of the two […]

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Artspace Exhibit Takes Unblinking Look At History, by Brian Slattery, New Haven Independent, Dec 5, 2018

Artspace Exhibit Takes Unblinking Look At History by BRIAN SLATTERY | Dec 5, 2018 2:03 pm (1) Comment | Commenting has been closed | E-mail the Author Posted to: Arts & Culture, Visual Arts, Ninth Square An arrow embedded in the wall of the gallery. A cascade of disembodied hands, hanging from vines. Walls plastered with the arresting racial imagery […]

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Art News: Rema Hort Mann Foundation Names 2018 Artist Grantees, Annie Armstrong, September 26, 2018

NEWS Rema Hort Mann Foundation Names 2018 Artist Grantees BY Annie Armstrong POSTED 09/26/18 4:21 PM3217058 Sara Stern, Night Talk , 2017.  COURTESY REMA HORT MANN FOUNDATION  The Rema Hort Mann Foundation today announced the winners of its 2018 Emerging Artist Grants, which each come with unrestricted funds of $10,000. The recipients are as follows: – […]

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OkayAfrica: 100 Women: Adama Delphine Fawundu and Laylah Amatullah Barrayn’s MFON Gives Black Women Photographers a Home, by Camille Storm and Qimmah Saafir Okay Africa, March 8, 2018

100 Women: Adama Delphine Fawundu and Laylah Amatullah Barrayn’s MFON Gives Black Women Photographers a Home The biannual photography journal is named after Nigerian Photographer Mmekutmfon “Mfon” Essien Where the word “captures” is normally applicable in describing the work of a photographer, one could argue that the exact opposite is […]

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