Name: POSTPONED: Dear Mama...
Start: 2020-04-18T14:00:00-04:00
End: 2020-04-18T16:00:00-04:00
Location: Columbia Art Center

POSTPONED: Dear Mama...

The exhibition is a passion project launched by two former law school classmates and artists, Kamilah House and Faye McCray. The women are mothers whose own struggles led them to create this exhibition to honor women who have lost their lives or bear deep scars due to pregnancy-related complications.The aim of this exhibition is to create for the viewer emotional resonance as well as understanding of the health disparities impacting women of color. Such disparities include:The United States has the worst maternal death rates in the developed world, at 18 death per 100,000 live births.The maternal mortality rate is alarmingly higher among black women, at 40 deaths per 100,000 live births.Black women are nearly four times more like than white women – and more than twice as likely as women on other races – to die from preventable, pregnancy-related complications.Black women also experience higher rates of maternal complications and infant mortality.They are twice as likely to lose an infant to premature death, and these disparities have not improved for more than 30 years.Faye McCray is an author and essayist whose poetry and essays have been featured in the HuffPost, Little Patuxent Review, For Harriet, Madame Noire, Black Girl Nerds, and other popular publications. She is the editor-in-chief and co-founder of Weemagine, a website devoted to celebrating and inspiring all children and the people who love them. Faye's most recent work, I Am Loved!, is a collection of positive affirmations for children. By day, Faye is an attorney and married mother of three boys. She is also a Master's in Writing candidate at Johns Hopkins University. You can find Faye on the web atwww.fayemccray.com.Kamilah House is an emerging artist working in both oil and acrylic. She often employs bold color and dramatic brushstrokes to express social and political issues through both figurative and abstract art. Her work is informed by her career as an attorney, her love for current events, background in international studies and politics and her experience growing up as a Bahamian/African American diplomat brat throughout the developing world.

Kamilah House and Faye McCray

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<P><SPAN>This event has been postponed.</SPAN></P>
<P>As you know, COVID-19 has caused closures and cancellations throughout the country. While we were scheduled to send our decisions this week, we were waiting for word from the gallery as to whether they would close and allow us to reschedule this wonderful exhibition and event. The answer came that the Columbia Arts Center will close and Dear Mama will be postponed until a later date this year.</P>
<P>Please accept our apologies as we know you were looking<SPAN CLASS="text_exposed_show"> forward to seeing the work and building added awareness to black maternal health issues.</SPAN></P>
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<P>Be assured, the gallery is committed to rescheduling this exhibition as soon as possible. As soon as we know our new dates, we will update you and send our invitations to our artists.</P>
<P>Best,<BR>Faye and Kamilah</P>
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<P><SPAN>Through visual 2D and 3D art, </SPAN><SPAN>Dear Mama </SPAN><SPAN>is designed to bring attention to issues impacting Black motherhood including alarmingly high rates of maternal and infant mortality and pregnancy-related complications.</SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN>This is a group thematic exhibition to display work in a variety of mediums with representation of pregnancy and motherhood as seen through the eyes of emerging artists of African descent. The exhibition will be brought to life with a reception to include poetry and essay readings, songs and performance art.</SPAN></P>
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<P CLASS="_04xlpA direction-ltr align-center para-style-body">Exhibit runs April 10-30, 2020</P>
<P CLASS="_04xlpA direction-ltr align-center para-style-body">Opening Reception  April 18, 2020 2-4pm</P>
<P CLASS="_04xlpA direction-ltr align-center para-style-body">This event is sponsored by The Women's Giving Circle of Howard County.</P>
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