March 9 @ 2:00 pm – 4:30 pm
Forms of Sustenance: Clay Making Workshop with Shannon Weston
Saturday March 9, 2024
2:00 pm – 4:30 pm
By invitation only
Forms of Sustenance is a free, introductory clay-making workshop inspired by the exhibition Genealogies of Sustenance. The workshop prioritizes Black and Brown participants with ties to the African diasporic community. Guided by local artist and instructor Shannon Weston, participants will to learn hand-building and wheel-throwing pottery techniques. This workshop aims to inspire thought around forms of sustenance within our natural environments and ecosystems.
About the Instructor
Shannon Weston
Shannon Weston creates stylized figurative ceramic sculptures that are adorned with tactile designs inspired by African scarification. Her work reflects ideas of self-discovery through cultural practice. Born in Jamaica and raised in a conservative Christian home, Weston’s work features physical manifestations of her personal journey as a young Black woman in an environment where marking the skin was frowned upon. Weston’s work engages with her African heritage and notions of body alteration as a symbol of beauty.
About the Exhibition
Genealogies of Sustenance explores experimental and traditional craft forms and techniques that meditate on themes of sustenance, ancestral and embodied memory, as well as plant life stories across regions in Africa and the Black diaspora. The exhibition brings together ceramic installations and film by Chiedza Pasipanodya, Mallory Lowe Mpoka, and Zainab Aliyu, artists whose visual and conceptual strategies sew together threads of hybridity, abundance, and transformative imagination. Learn more