Celebrating
Our Common Heritage in the African Diaspora
February 8 – April 16, 2015
Opening reception and Artist Talk: Sunday,
February 8, 2015, 4:00 – 6:30PM
Morgan
State University
1700 East
Cold Spring Lane
242 Murphy
Fine Arts Center
Baltimore,
MD
From James
E. Lewis Museum of Art press release:
The James
E. Lewis Museum of Art is pleased to present an exhibition featuring works by
artist couple, Januwa Moja, wearable art designer and fashion icon, and her husband, Uzikee Nelson, a globally renowned sculptor.
The
exhibition features a variety of expressions initiated through vibrant and
artistic cultural exchange denoting the artist’s travels in the African
Diaspora.
Ms. Moja,
a Baltimore native and graduate of the Maryland Institute College of Art, is a
cultural ambassador who connects African cultures through visual and wearable
art, performance art and design.
Uzikee
Nelson’s life size sculptures use African aesthetics to celebrate the beauty of
women in the diaspora, as well as to celebrate cultural heroes Paul Robeson,
Thurgood Marshall, Malcolm X, Marcus Garvey and others.
The
artists have coined the experience as a “living exhibition that will provide a
retrospection of the social conscious art created during our 36 year marriage
and half a century of activism.”
This
celebration of common heritage will look at people of color and their
contributions and inspiration to the African American experience.
The
calendar of events surrounding this exhibition has activities conceived to inspire
future cultural events that sustain and honor all cultural relationships in Maryland and surrounding areas.
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