Events: January 30, 2025

Threads of Resilience: Celebrating Art, Beauty, and Cultural Legacy

Thursday, Jan 30, 2025 from 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM - English

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The Marshall L. Davis, Sr. African Heritage Cultural Arts Center invites you to experience a multimedia curation: Threads of Resilience:Celebrating Art, Beauty, And Cultural Legacy. Exhibits include Margarette Joyner's costumes merging African textiles with 19th-century portraiture, Imani Warren's Black Beauty as an Act of Resistance honoring African-descended women's beauty rituals and the Sunlight School of Beauty Culture, and A.J. Brown's Double Exposure, blending music and vibrant visual art.

Regina Jestrow: Lots of Little Pieces

Thursday, Jan 30, 2025 various times - English

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Regina Jestrow: Lots of Little Pieces (aka My Favorite Color is Glitter) showcases Jestrow's large-scale art quilts weaving personal narratives with a tribute to her mother and sister, celebrating their love for shiny things.

Curated by Dainy Tapia of ArtSeen365, this exhibition showcases Jestrow's large-scale art quilts weaving personal narratives with a tribute to her mother and sister, celebrating their love for shiny things. The tacky-luxe aesthetic, which prominently features in Jestrow's family home in Queens, New York, continues to influence her artistic practice in Miami.

Jestrow's geometric art quilts incorporate hand-dyed and painted fabrics, alongside repurposed textiles sourced from friends, family, and thrift shops. These materials, as well as deconstructed party dresses, serve to convey stories and reference pop culture trends. By employing symbolic traditional quilt patterns, Jestrow creates new, dynamic forms that narrate her experiences.

Join us for this captivating exploration of personal and cultural narratives through the art of quilting!