Fredrick Douglass-Isaac Myers Museum, Maryland
This exhibition represented 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.
The Artists... Kibibi Ajanku, King Salim Ajanku, Jumoke Ajanku, and K. Shukura Ajanku. The intersecting projects were Indigo Magic Dye Village for Common Ground on the Hill at McDaniel College, The Indigo Dye Village for Agrihood Baltimore and the Natural Dye Inititative, Indigo for Tomorrow Apprenticeship Project For the Maryland State Arts Council, Rubber Glove Blues Art Exhibition for the Baltimore Office of Promotion and the Arts.
"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."
-King Salim Ajanku
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