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LOCATION:Lawrence Arts Center Gallery - 940 New Hampshire\, Lawrence\, KS 66044
DESCRIPTION:<span style="color: #333333;"><strong>2025-2026 Printmaking Artist-in-Residence</strong></span> Drawing from printing practices, cosmologies, and design among the African diaspora, <em>Quilted Existence</em> explores indigo blue as a hue of resilience, creativity, and knowledge. In engaging with the exhibition, viewers will become part of an immersive conversation between textiles, indigo, and space. <em>Quilted Existence</em> is an invitation to experience the layered histories of textile design, indigo, and cowrie shell beads. These materials, once viewed as symbols of protection or abundance, became vehicles of colonial and imperial violence, their abundant use as trade for human chattel coining the phrase “indigo for a hand”. Those black hands, stained blue with indigo, produced some of the wealthiest economies in the Caribbean and Americas; but much more than that, they carried knowledge, crafting beads, prayers, and songs as vessels to hold their stories. Cloth, too, was a vessel, draping homes and altars in ancestral memory as divine protection. Mugala’s work venerates that process, creating beauty to resist brutal violence, draped in indigo cloth, a midnight ocean, blue-black with grief and hope. <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong><a style="color: #ff0000;" href="https://lawrenceartscenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Wabwila-Price-List.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">View the Quilted Existence Price List</a></strong></span> <span style="color: #333333;"><b>Final Friday: May 29, 6-9 pm</b></span> <span style="color: #333333;"><b>INSIGHT Art Talk | Wednesday, June 3, at 7 pm</b></span>
SUMMARY:Wabwila Mugala | Quilted Existence
ORGANIZER:Lawrence Arts Center
URL;VALUE=URI:https://lawrenceartscenter.org/event/wabwila-mugala-quilted-existence/
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