Doors: 6:30pm
Show: 7:00pm
KESHIABANGS is an Indigenous female artist and rapper from the Ramapough Lenape Munsee nation of NY, NJ and Western CT. Keshia alongside other Indigenous artists and DJ's will be bringing Native and modern hiphop together for a music night and birthday bash!
In relation with October Exhibition –
Black and Indigenous Futures
work by Akira Iyashikei, bee rodriguez and Keshia Talking Waters De Freece Lawrence
October 5 – 29, 2023
featuring guest artwork by Kathleen Spirit Dancer Mann Crippen and Janey Hecht
On View Sundays
11 A – 2 P
RAMAPO, GOOD RELATIVES is the liberating visual of under recognized New Jersey, New York and Connecticut tribal peoples, The Ramapough. The photographs and microfilm imagery has been rematriated and liberated from the Vineland NJ residential school archives, while the vibrant depictions of land and water are exactly that.
RAMAPO, GOOD RELATIVES is placing relatives back in good relation with one another and space. August 15th, 2023 lead Ramapough Clan Mother and Cultural Knowledge Bearer passed away at 72 years of life. Kathleen Spirit Dancer Mann Crippen's famous beadwork and baby moccasins (which she would make for every new child of the tribe), are included in this exhibition as an honoring.
Keshia Talking Waters De Freece Lawrence is a Ramapough Lenape Munsee, Deer Clan member. De Freece’s artwork is to evoke ecosystem, community and self- negotiation through lively positioning, colors and more than human relatives.