Join us as the artists share insight into their current work and ongoing artistic research.
🧶Marcella will offer an interactive workshop on “Community Bonding Through Textile Creation” where participants collaborate on making a shared textile piece that reflects community values and fosters connection. Participants are welcome to bring textile scraps they have at home.
💐Austin will share a presentation on how Ghanaian women’s fashion was influenced by other west African countries, especially Ivorian womens’ trends in the 70s, 80s. He’s interested in how these fashions were functional and not just trends.
The event will be in English. Light food and drink will be served
Marcella Nuerkie Akuetteh & Austin Nortey are artists in residence in Berlin, and Austin is supported by the Va-Bene Scholarship and Mentorship Residency Abroad. They are working at the scholarship’s cooperation residency partner ZK/U (Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik) and are currently part of the group exhibition “Activist Choreographies of Care” at nGbK.
