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DESCRIPTION:Come to our December art opening featuring, "Angry Black Girl Magical 
 Realism AN ART INSTALLATION BY WHITNEY SPARKS"\n\nWhitney Sparks is an 
 artist mother writer and queer Black femme agitator (organizer doula 
 herbalist yoga teacher permaculturist) who grew up in Silicon Valley and 
 Saratoga. She has lived nomadically all around the world and earned degrees 
 from Yale and a Masters in Fine Art from Zurich University of the 
 Arts.\n\nAngry Black Girl Magical Realism is an installation in three 
 parts:\n\n-Ancient Future: The Noose as Umbilical Cord ~ this collection of 
 mixed media artwork from 2018 explores the cosmic realm of ancestral 
 knowledge as a powerful magical and/or spiritual force of Blackness that 
 can land on Earth in healing shifting ways/waves for their descendants in 
 the Diaspora.\n\n-Migrating Womxn ~ portraits of people traveling in the 
 caravan made to uplift their struggle and above all to RESIST the 
 dehumanizing agenda that threatens their lives. ALL proceeds from these 
 portrait sales will go directly to support the caravan refugees.\n\n-Mixed 
 Messages ~Collage postcards by yours truly from around the world. Get $5 
 off a yearly subscription to these original works of art for 2019 by 
 ordering with the code SUBROSA via whitneysparks@gmail.com, before January 
 1.\n\nArtist’s Statement:\n\nAncient Future: The Noose as Umbilical Cord 
 ~ \n\nSome of us ARE the daughters and the descendants of the witches and 
 healers and midwives and sex workers who DID burn. Others present are the 
 daughters and descendants of those who did the burning. Not just fittest 
 who could not be burned survived.\n\nWhat if … Those of us who are the 
 descendants of the BURNED & LYNCHED were to RECLAIM those nooses? What 
 would that mean? What would we do with the ropes? What if…\n\nThe Noose 
 is a portal to the future:\nportal to a cosmic womb space,\nreclaimed and 
 sacred\nas umbilical cord, connecting us to truth.\n\nAs a dance, \nAs a 
 net, what would it catch? \nThe knitted nooses of our ancestors, gathered 
 back together…\n\nCould we ever hope to haul in a different future? 
 Different from the bleak one projected now?\n\nTo Migrating Womxn ~ My 
 heart calls out with the cry of a nomad mother who has not felt safe in her 
 homeland. I honor the time travelers and families fighting for a brighter 
 future every step of the way! The Spirit of the Universe lives through 
 you… May you be safe and comforted.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2018/11/30/18819466.php
SUMMARY:Angry Black Girl Magical Realism, Art by Whitney Sparks
LOCATION:SubRosa Community Space\n703 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2018/11/30/18819466.php
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