We're excited to head over to The Indigo Project's Denim Camp. Come join us as we create and upcycle denim products under the guidance of curator, Buhmamama Africa, in an act of collective rememberance and memory-making alongside The Indigo Project's exhibition at SOMArts.
Come join for the denim upcycle workshop, indigo dying workshop or just to hang!
Upcycling denim workshop, 1:00 PM
Indigo dying workshop, 2:00 PM
Live art/vendors, All day
This is a public, free event we're visiting together as a group. Feel free to invite friends, partners, allies, and children are welcome, as this is an all-ages event!
Materials are provided but everyone is welcome to bring old denim jeans, jackets, dresses, etc to upcycle!
About Denim Camp
Led by Lucumi Priestess and Independent Curator Bushmama Africa, the Denim Camp invites participants to create unique denim pieces that will be placed in “The Indigo Project” archive.
Participants are walked through contextual research and ancestral memory practices before learning and practicing the technical skills necessary to upcycle their textiles into new adornments. Isha Rosemond will be using the materials made from this workshop to create an online archive that serves as a public point of reference.
About The Indigo Project
Curated by Bushmama Africa and Isha Rosemond, The Indigo Project is a landmark multidisciplinary exhibition centering Black artists and their stories as a means to combat the erasure of African American history, culture, and creativity.
The Indigo Project remembers the stories of African Diaspora history that have been dismembered from our collective memories: “indigo” as healing, as the Earth, as adornment, as connection; “project” as in a spiritual assignment intentionally planned to fulfill a specific purpose. Bushmama Africa, an initiated Priestess in African Traditional Religion, partnered with Isha Rosemond, a post-disciplinary artist and founder of the Black Freedom Fellowship, to uplift intergenerational and ancestral connection through the materials of Indigo, Cotton, and Denim.
Informed by academic research, decades of traditional African spiritual initiation, and the ethics of communal collaboration, The Indigo Project unravel narratives that bring the African Diaspora and Indigenous peoples back to the roots of their storytelling.
Learn more about The Indigo Project here