May 2024: Flower Power - Plant Stories from the Diasporas
Curated by Carolyn Hitt and Shelagh Brown
Opening Thursday, May 9, 2024 5-9pm
Opening Thursday, May 9, 2024 5-9pm
"Flower Power: Plant Stories from the Diasporas"
Curated by Carolyn Hitt & Shelagh Brown
Show runs through 6/1/24
Our entire world is plant powered. There would be no life without plants and, as Black and brown people, plants have always been integral to our resilience and survival. We’ve lived in harmony with nature as its stewards, globally, and throughout colonization to survive its brutality and atrocities. We owe everything to the plant life surrounding us and want to honor it and share the stories of how we are intertwined with the plants in our lives and cultures. -- Shelagh Brown.
Vermillion will be filled with flowers and plants of all mediums; from living to painted, photography, textiles and more.. to tell the stories of plants that have been important and impactful for the artists. their families, and their communities
Featured artists include: Channa Bliner-Smith, Katana Sol, Mika aka Anti-Colonial Auntie, Twyla Sampaco, Veronica Johanson-Faison, Japera Burres, Julie Chang-Schulman, Gerard, & opening night tinctures by Erudite & Stone
Carolyn Hitt info here.
Learn more about Shelagh here.
One Night Only
Thursday, 5/2/2024 5-9pm
"Eyes Full of Tears"
A Musical and Visual Experience by Tiffany "Lady P" Howard.
Tiffany Howard is an artist, advocate, & visual storyteller who works at the intersections of music, visual art, & community upliftment. Since recording her 1st song behind bars at King County Juvenile Detention Center, art has been a consistent force in her life. As a survivor of the foster system with no stable home until the age of 16, music was the anchor & tool of transformation when all else failed- a place to process grief & emotions & connect with other like minded people. In addition to surviving social structures of systematized oppression, white supremacy, patriarchy, homophobia, & more, she also lives with psuedo tumor cerebri which almost took her sight & life. It is surviving this experience of almost losing her vision which sparked expansion into visual storytelling.
This photography show is opening one night only,
