Of Water & Spirit: Indigo Ceremony
About this Event
Please join us for the final offering from the Black Women in Mourning & Joy Collective. This #BlackAugust, we're coming full circle by returning to the same space in which this investigation began (the former Ashara Ekundayo Gallery) and offering a final indigo ritual to complete the circle.
YOU MUST BE ABLE TO ATTEND BOTH DAYS OF THE WORKSHOP
This offering is specifcally for Black, Indigenous and Women & Femmes of Color!
Sliding Scale/Suggested Donation - $50 - $300 (partial scholarship available - please reach out) *Note: $50 only covers materials for 2-day ceremony so please offer more if you can).
RSVP Required. Limited Space (15 slots available)
ADA Accessible venue
BRING YOUR LUNCH, Water Bottle & Snack to Share!
Day One (11am-5pm): We’ll open with an introduction to the social practice program of the Black Women in Mourning & Joy Collective. From there, Jasmine Narkita will lead a high-level introduction to indigo — a thread that will continue throughout the workshop, weaving in themes of water, fire, and air. Together we will make two vats, learn the process of building a vat from the ground up, and begin prepping cloth for dyeing on both Day One and Day Two.
Day Two (11am-3:30pm): We will be dyeing from 11am to 2pm. Cleanup is from 2–3:30pm. We'll have the option to use several different techniques, including:
- Whole cloth dyeing — cloth is dipped directly in the vat, sometimes across multiple strengths, to produce solid gradients of blue
- Clay resist — clay or paste is painted onto the cloth before dyeing; where it resists the dye, the cloth stays white, leaving bold graphic shapes (e.g., a large circle) against the blue
- Tie dye — cloth is bound with rubber bands, marbles, or other objects before dyeing, creating shibori-style starburst and ring patterns
Thank YOU to our Community Sponsors: Jasmine Narkita Wiley, Artist As First Responder, Black Women in Mourning & Joy Collective, Ashara Ekundayo Gallery, Oakland ReCAST, and Mighty Mighty Studios
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ABOUT:
The Black Women in Mourning & Joy Collective is an itinerant, invite-only, arts and social practice experiment conducted by independent curator, public archivist, and artist in Oakland, CA. Through guided storytelling, journaling, and creative workshops, women & femmes gather to collectively witness and transmute trauma, grief and rage into art work. Our practice accesses and honors color, sound, movement, and writing in ritual conversation with the elements of earth, air, water, fire, and ether.
Jasmine Narkita Wiley is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, and educator who uses craft, textiles, the body, and the image to create mixed media installations, participatory art, and works on paper. Interested in abstraction, obscurity, and blur, she probes beinghood, the gaze, and dark sousveillance. Through the language of her research, materials, and media she blends the political with the spiritual to reflect possibilities of repair.
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