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Telling Herstory is a community collaborative art and oral history project where artist Elvira Clayton collected oral narratives from Harlem-based senior citizens that celebrated their female ancestors.
“Once I began to sit with the seniors and hear their stories, I realized there was something very powerful here”, recalls Clayton, “many of the elders that I spoke with represented the last surviving physical links to relatives, grandmothers, great grandmothers, who were born into or immediately after slavery”.
The focal point of the exhibition will be a series of large-scale, hand-made artist books inspired by the collected stories. Sculptures placed throughout the gallery space will serve as listening stations where the audience will hear sound portraits spoken by the project’s participants.
Telling Herstory documents a community. The project provides as a stage to address the impact and residuals of slavery, and celebrates the triumphs in spite of it.
The opening reception will be on Friday, November 11th 6pm-10pm. The exhibition is free and open to the public.
Chashama Gallery
461 West 126th Street
(Between Amsterdam and Morningside Ave.)
New York, New York
Dates:
- Thursday, November 10, 2011 @ 1:00 pm
- Friday, November 11, 2011 @ 1:00 pm
- Friday, November 11, 2011 @ 6:00 pm
- Saturday, November 12, 2011 @ 1:00 pm
This sounds INCREDIBLE.
(Source: jalwhite, via tgstonebutch)
