A Story of Indigo Resiliance
APRIL / MAY / JUNE 2023
The Artists are Kibibi Ajanku, K. Salim Ajanku, Jumoke Ajanku, and K. Shukura Ajanku.
The intersecting projects are Indigo Magic Dye Village for Common Ground on the Hill at McDaniel College, The Arabber Traveling Community Dye Vat for the Natural Dye Initiative, Indigo for Tomorrow Maryland Traditions Apprenticeship Project for Maryland State Arts Council, Rubber Glove Blues Exhibition and Catalog Project for the Baltimore Office of Promotion and the Arts.
This exhibition represents a year-long intersection of indigo projects embodied by members of House Ajanku. They are each artists in their own right. The work of each project was designed to pass ancestral and authentic practices to the next generation, and the community-at-large, in an effort to keep those practices robust and alive.
This is important work. We view ourselves as portals connecting the past, present, and future, preserving West African dye traditions while pushing the processes forward to include mediums not generally used. Our influences for this project include Nigerian indigo dye traditions and Africans in the diaspora.
-K. Salim Ajanku
Opening Reception
Rubber Glove Blues" is an art exhibition that tells a story if indigo resilience. This is a slideshow that stitches together moments captured at the Opening Reception and Artist Talk.
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