Ensemble 3
BANNERS .. EMMANUEL MASSACRE ... MLK PARADES ... conNECkted
Is Racism Legal? ... Why don't you?
2014-2020
Each drawing: 60"x40"
Tableau: 75"x135"x2.5"
Some banners and other props were used by the Charleston Rhizome Collective in protests after the Emanuel 9 Massacre (2015), on MLK days and parades or in workshops. They were conceived, laid out, painted by adults and youth, to understand, grieve, act, be there, propose or be part of the conversations. Whatever circumstances, they were done seriously.
Food Lion store on King St; MLK Parade at Marion Square;
SC Progressive Network in Columbia; in front of the Charleston County School District (CCSD); part of the ISM show curated by KTC/Karole Turner Campbell at the Avery Research Center (2015)
The canvases have gathered answers to multiple booklets filled up by youth and elders during the project “Conversations with Time” in Baltimore.
Multi-use. Never over.
Homelessness made so simple?
Actual size of each tent is 10″ or less.
Banners are 40″ to 100″ long. At the Charleston City Gallery at Waterfront Park, sixty of them (from multiple authors) made up a maze, part of conNECKted: Imaginings for Truth and Reconciliation.
Some banners were given to their author or sold at the launching (closing) weekend of “conNECKted: Imaginings for Truth & Reconciliation” thanks to Wim Roefs, owner of the If Art Gallery in Columbia, SC, who acted as auctioneer.
Anastatia Ketchen used some banners for her show “I Heard Chicago Crying: Outcry” which is also a published book. A few banners are still available and usable. Easy to make; easy to use individually or hanging, as a penetrable cluster. When you walk through it, the messages penetrate you…
Online, Alternate ROOTS published CREATING PLACE: The Art of Equitable Community Building! “a multimedia collection of explorations, reflections, challenges, and offerings to the national dialogue around creative placemaking.” conNECKted – IMAGININGS FOR TRUTH & RECONCILIATION, the film, was commissioned to the Charleston Rhizome, and filmmaker Jason Gourdine.
Holding banners on all the pictures above are among others Jean-Marie Mauclet, Donna Cooper Hurt, Jason Slade, Gwylene Gallimard, La’Sheia Oubre, Ann Quattelbaum, Louise Brown, Debra Holt, Dr Ade Ofunniyin, Anastatia Ketchen, Pamella Gibbs, Katie Graham, James Campbell, Betsy Grund, Lorna Shelton-Beck and Muhiyidin d’Baha. Banners and t-shirts were made by many, including young apprentices.
Photographs are by Omari Fox, Gwylene Gallimard, Auzheal Oubre, Carlton Turner and Latonnya Wallace.
By placing this picture below showing Muhiyidin d’Baha, a Black Lives Matter activist from Charleston, showing his fist, we want to never forget that he was murdered in New Orleans at the age of 33.
These banners were done during the school year at James Simons Public Montessori School with the primary classes under the leadership of Pam Gibbs and Gwylene Gallimard supported by Principal Quenetta White and many teachers.
“As God Gives us Grace”