Tactile Truth Telling: A Conversation on Memory & Material

Artist As First Responder

A SALT to CATCH GHOSTS conversation between April Bey, Ashara Ekundayo, Adebunmi Gbadebo and moderated by Isha Rosemond.

I﻿mage Credit: April Bey, Imma Run My Race, Imma Run Rings Round Their Nothing, 2022Join April Bey, Ashara Ekundayo, Adebunmi Gbadebo in conversation with curatorial assistant and founder of the Black Freedom Fellowship Isha Rosemond as they explore the relationship between tactile material and the practice of storytelling across the African Diaspora. This free online conversation is in conjunction with the SALT to CATCH GHOSTS exhibition curated by Ashara Ekundayo. SALT to CATCH GHOSTS is an experiential exhibition curated by Ashara Ekundayo that lays bare radical imaginations from a selection of Black women and femmes whose large, magical works surround each witness and call them into a spiritual and environmental possibility of contemporary apothecary. This exhibition is on view at <a href="https://www.slashart.org/salt-to-catch-ghosts/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">/(slash)</a> from September 9, 2022 - December 17, 2022. A big thank you to Chef Bryant Terry and <a href="https://www.bryant-terry.com/4colorbooks" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">4Color Books</a> for sponsoring this event! <h3><a href="https://www.slashart.org/salt-to-catch-ghosts/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Learn more about the exhibition here</a>.</h3><h3></h3>A﻿bout the artists:<a href="http://www.april-bey.com" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">April Bey</a> grew up in The Bahamas (New Providence) and lives in Los Angeles, CA. She is a visual artist and art educator, whose interdisciplinary work is an introspective and social critique of American and Bahamian culture, feminism, generational theory, social media, AfroFuturism, AfroSurrealism, post-colonialism, and constructs of race within supremacist systems. Her work has been exhibited internationally and in seven solo exhibitions to - Ashara Ekundayo date and is in the collections of the California African American Museum, the National Art Gallery of The Bahamas, and more. Bey is currently a tenured professor at Glendale College and represented by TERN Gallery, The Bahamas and Gavlak Gallery, Los Angeles.<a href="https://adebunmi.carbonmade.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Adebunmi Gbadebo</a> is a New Jersey-born and Philadelphia-based artist whose work centers on deeply resonant materials such as indigo, human hair, and clay hand dug from plantations. Her practice tends to the stories of ancestors, families, and individuals either long overlooked or too-closely surveilled. Gbadebo earned her BFA at the School of Visual Arts, NY. Her work is currently being shown at The Metropolitan Museum of Art and is included in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, among others.<a href="http://ashara.io" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Ashara Ekundayo</a> is a queer Black feminist interdisciplinary independent curator, visual maker, cultural theologian, arts organizer, and strategist whose creative practice is rooted in joy-informed pedagogies and the study and creation of Black archives, site-responsive ceremony, and the specific expertise of Black womxn of the African Diaspora. She is the founder of the philanthropic organization Artist As First Responder and has collaborated with artists and institutions including the Museum of the African Diaspora, SFMOMA, and Black [Space] Residency. Ashara currently lives and works between the San Francisco Bay Area and her hometown of Detroit, MI<a href="http://www.blackfreedomfellowship.com" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Isha Rosemond</a> is an Ayitian-American post-disciplinary artist whose works use somatic poetry to explore the distance between colonial documentation and African Diasporic truth-telling. Isha is the founder of the Black Freedom Fellowship, an international rest residency that offers resources for BIPOC artists/activists to create vital futures. They are a 2022 Curator-inResidence at SOMArts San Francisco, 2022 Artist-in-Residence at Mirante Xique Xique in Bahia, Brazil, and a 2021 California Artist Council Individual Artist Fellow.

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