Sacred Garden Secret Service
Schedule
Fri Apr 26 2024 at 05:00 pm to 08:00 pm
Location
217 Farnsworth St, Detroit, MI, United States, Michigan 48202 | Detroit, MI
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SACRED GARDEN SECRET SERVICEApril 25 - May 25, 2024
Co-Curated by Halima Afi Cassells
Opens: Friday, April 26th, 5-8pm
Gallery Talk: May 9th, 6-7:30pm
Location: The Scarab Club, Main Gallery + Garden Space
Using the metaphor of the garden, references to holy texts and computer code, this group exhibition explores the sacred parts of our beings along with the commodifiable portions. What is our autonomy and agency in deciding which is which in a landscape that increasingly asks for our biometric data.
Exhibiting Artists: Onyx Ashanti, Halima Afi Cassells, Bakpak Durden , Kate Levy, Shanna Merola, Tawana Petty and Rory Scott. Please note: More artists are expected to confirm participation.
About Halima Afi Cassells
Halima Afi Cassells is an award-winning interdisciplinary community-engaged artist, mom of three, and avid gardener with deep roots in Waawiiyaataanong/Detroit, MI. She credits gardening as inspiring her move away from painting to a practice where she aspires to use natural and upcycled materials and processes that lend to the thriving of all (human and non-human) communities.
She is continually going down rabbit holes, seeking to understand the interconnectedness of the British monarchy and common law systems, global corporatism, climate crisis, and the impacts on the self to return to a right relationship. As an advocate for all artists and cultural practitioners, she has spearheaded many community processes that uplift cultural capital from often-exploited communities and continually create in a collaborative context. She is a core partner of Arts in a Changing America, the Waawiiyaataanong Arts Council, Equitable Detroit Coalition, Oakland Avenue Artists Coalition, and a longtime National Conference of Artists member.
Cassells continues to explore relationship-building and the notions of freedom/work, value/disposability in a participatory context through projects like the “Free Market of Detroit” (2015 Knight Arts awardee), her Tables and Thrones series (featured on WDET’s Artist Next Door 2021), and “Travelling Indigo Vat”. Her work has been featured at Art @the Max, Virgil Carr Center, The Wright Museum, MOCAD, Skylight Gallery (Brooklyn), Njelele Art Station (Harare), Ny Carlsberg Foundation (Copenhagen), and in a multitude of spaces in the public realm.
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Where is it happening?
217 Farnsworth St, Detroit, MI, United States, Michigan 48202Event Location & Nearby Stays:
