MS ABRAHAM'S AT ART CLASS AT BOYS AND GIRLS HIGH SCHOOL WHERE I TAUGHT A FURNITURE DESIGN CLASS USING RECYCLED CARDBOARD BOXES SPRING 2014

NOW AVAILABLE THE LIMITED EDITION URBAN PARADISE YOGA MAT STRAIGHT OUT OF HARLEM U.S.A. DESIGNED BY ARTIST XENOBIA BAILEY

THE SAMPLE YOGA MAT IS READY FOR IT’S CLOSE-UP…!!!

All you Righteous, Mind, Body and Soulful Practitioners: Prepare to get your serious Meditation Victory Praise on with this , limited edition, meditation/prayer/yoga/stretch mat, straight out of Harlem U.S.A. Designed by the internationally renowned crochet artist Xenobia Bailey and conceived by her yoga-teaching, lifestyle/sports-enthused niece, Sala McDaniels. 

The “Funky-Chic” crochet image on this inspirational artifact is a vibrant, high-definition printed reproduction of one of Xenobia Bailey’s award-winning fine art crochet works titled, “She-Bop, She-Boom.” 

This image is digitally printed on the mat with safe, sturdy, non-toxic inks, with hand painted, prism-like rays, using permanent, non toxic iridescent paints with a very fine non abrasive glitter, colorfully accenting the Blue Figure and the top and bottom of the background that surrounds the printed crochet image, creating an illuminated affect.

The mat measures in at 73” x 24” x 3/16” and is made of 100% biodegradable recycled rubber and other natural recycled materials. The mat is personally signed and numbered by Xenobia Bailey on the back; The underside has a sturdy grip to the floor.

Considerations: Weighing 7 lbs and comes without a carrying bag, This yoga mat is ideal for very gental use and care in the home sacrad spaces and practicses. 

Consider the weight of the Mat when traveling a long distance to classes on-foot, or biking to and from practice. Additionally, because of the printed and painted surface, this mat is not well-suited for Bikram or other hot yoga classes. 

Take special notice that this sample mat has a over flow paint spot on the upper right had side the accord during the hand painting.

For maintenance: Take a soft sponge or clothe and soak in a bowl of warm water with a few drops of gentle liquid soap and gently wipe (do not scrub) and rinse the surface and back when ever you feel necessary.

Please be aware that the color of the yoga mat may be different from the color in the image on the computer.

The 7 hot pink wall clamps at the top of yoga mat in the image, are not included with the purchase.

The Yoga Mats are not refundable or replaced if damaged or defaced.

Please exercise safely and use this mat with care. Xenobia Bailey is not responsible for any accidents or injuries occurred during the use of this yoga mat.

Thanks you so very much for your interest and your time.

Peace...!!!!

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Funk, God, Jazz and Medicine: Black Radical Brooklyn Artist Xenobia Bailey

 CREATIVETIME AND THE WEEKSVILLE HERITAGE CENTER 

PRESENTS 

FOUR ARTIST INSTALLATION PROJECTS 

ABOUT WEEKSVILLE HERITAGE CENTER

Weeksville Heritage Center is a multidimensional museum dedicated to preserving the history of the nineteenth-century African-American community of Weeksville, part of the present-day neighborhood of Crown Heights, Brooklyn. Weeksville was an independent free black community and site of self-determination, named for James Weeks, who with a group of other African-American investors acquired the property in 1838 in order to create an intentional landowning community where they could realize full civic, political, and human rights.

ABOUT THE PROJECT

Presented by Creative Time and Weeksville Heritage Center,Funk, God, Jazz, and Medicine: Black Radical Brooklyn will include a series of diverse, community-based artist commissions, launching this fall in Brooklyn’s Bedford Stuyvesant, Crown Heights, and Weeksville neighborhoods. The project will comprise works by artists Xenobia Bailey, Simone Leigh, Otabenga Jones & Associates, and Bradford Young, each of whom is collaborating with a local organization. Comprising performances, installations, and events, the commissioned works will build upon the powerful history of Weeksville—founded in 1838 as an independent free black community and site of self-determination—as well as the larger history of Black radical Brooklyn.

                                        ABOUT THE ARTIST XENOBIA BAILEY

Born and raised in Seattle, Washington, Xenobia Bailey studied ethno-musicology at the University of Washington, where she became fascinated by the craftsmanship and sounds of the cultures of Africa, Asia, South America, and India. She later studied Industrial Design at Pratt Institute, in Brooklyn, New York, where she was introduced to lifestyle possibilities through design. Today, the New York City-based Bailey is best known for eclectic crocheted hats, large-scale mandalas, and tents consisting of colorful concentric circles and repeating patterns. Her designs draw influences from Africa, China, and Native American and Eastern philosophies, with undertones of the domestic aesthetic of her mother and other African American rural and urban homemakers, and of the 1960′s and funk visual aesthetic. Many pieces are connected to her ongoing project Paradise Under Reconstruction in the Aesthetic of Funk.

Bailey has been artist-in-residence at Pittsburgh’s Society for Contemporary Craft, at the Studio Museum in Harlem, and the Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation in New York City. She has exhibited at the Studio Museum of Harlem; the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York City; the High Museum of Art, Atlanta; and the Jersey City Museum. Her work is in the permanent collections at Harlem’s Schomberg Center for Research in Black Culture and Museum of Art and Design, in New York City, and the Allentown Art Museum, Pennsylvania.