Artist Reception for GRIOTS -Mate Masie -"What I hear, I keep,"

Name: Artist Reception for GRIOTS -Mate Masie -"What I hear, I keep,"
Start: 2025-12-27T15:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-12-27T17:00:00-05:00
Location: Stem & Vine

Schedule

Sat Dec 27 2025 at 03:00 pm to 05:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Stem & Vine | Baltimore, MD

This exhibit proposes that the Visual Artist is the contemporary Griot.
About this Event

Griots - Mate Masie -"What I hear, I keep,"

The traditional Griot (or Jeli) of West Africa is a historian, storyteller, praise singer, poet, and musician. They are the living libraries of their communities, charged with the sacred duty of preserving ancestry, battles, and cultural wisdom through oral tradition. This exhibit proposes that the Visual Artist is the contemporary Griot.

The following artists exemplify the very essence of Griot:

The theme Mate Masie -"What I hear, I keep," posits that in an increasingly visual world, the responsibility of the storyteller has migrated from the tongue to the eye. The artists selected for this exhibit do not simply create aesthetic objects; they chronicle the times, preserve the "oral" histories of their communities through iconography, and weave the thread that connects the past to the future.

The exhibit asks the audience to view the canvas not as silent objects, but as loud, vibrant stories that are "speaking" history.