VISIT WITH COLUMBUS OHIO LIVING TREASURE, MASTER FIBER ARTIST, ANIMATED JOURNALIST EXTRAORDINAIRE, AMINAH BRENDA LYNN ROBINSON

KING ARTS COMPLEX DR BARBARA NICHOLSON, WHO ARRANGED THIS VISIT, KNOCKS ON THE ANIMATED DOOR OF AMINAH ROBINSON WHILE MY MOUTH WAS HANGING WIDE OPEN.

FIBER ARTIST AMINAH BRENDA LYNN ROBINSONS INSTALLATION FRONT YARN. THIS AMAZING WOMAN PREPARES HER PATH BEFORE HER,

WE WERE GREETED BY AMINAH AND INVITED IN,... HAS WE ENTERED THIS LIVING STUDIO, WE FIRST APROACHED A VANITY TABLE THAT WAS CONVERTED TO A ALTAR OF SORTS, WITH A LARGE BOOK OPENED WITH AN AMAZING DRAWING OF THE HUMAN BODY.... I REALY APRECIATED THAT AMINAH AND DR NICHOLSON LET ME HAVE MY SILENCE, HAS I WALKED AROUND AND DRANK IN THE LIFE IN THE SURROUNDINGS ROOMS.

WITH EVERY STEP, AND EVERY TURN OF THE HEAD THERE IS INSPIRATION FROM DOOR NOBS, TO WALLS, BOOKS, ART, OPEN LETTER, NOTES, YOU NAME IT. WHAT EVER ENTERS THIS CREATIVE CHAMBERS IS ADDED TO THIS ARTIST CREATIVE PALETTE.

WHEN I SAW AMINAHS WORK IN PROGRESS I HEARD MY HEART BEATING IN MY EARS AND I FELT IT IN MY NECK,.... BUT... I WAS COOL!!... I WAS TOTALLY REVERENT IN THE PRESENCE OF THE RESTING NEEDLE & THREAD OF A MASTER.

I FELT LIKE I WAS WALKING BEHIND THE CURTAIN OF THE WIZARD, WHEN I SAW THE CONSTRUCTION OF ONE OF AMINAH'S QUILTS. DR NICHOLSON TOLD ME LATER THAT AMINAH IS TEACHING HERSELF ABOUT 3 OR MORE LANGUAGES.

BOOKS, BOOKS EVERY WHERE, THEN I SAW THE POST CARD ABOUT MY EXHIBIT (RE) POSSESSED AT THE KING ARTS COMPLEX ON HER WALL.

AMINAHS RESEARCH MATERIAL.

AMINAH HAS TURNED HER KITCHEN INTO ANOTHER STUDIO SPACE FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF HER SCULPTURE, I WAS TOLD SHE DOES NOT COOK, SHE TURNED THE STOVE INTO A STAND FOR HER THIMBLE ASSEMBLAGE SCULPTURE.

I AM LOVING THE THIMBLE ASSEMBLAGE.

I WAS TOLD THAT AMINAH ONLY EATS FRUIT.

A ROW OF FRUIT RIPPENING IN THE WINDOW SUNLIGHT.

AMINAH HAS TWO DOGS, THEY ARE REAL CHARACTERS, SO ARE HER DOGGIE CERAMICS.

AND THEN I ENTERED THE MASTERS DRAWING ROOM!!!!!...

I ALWAYS WANTED TO KNOW WHAT IT WOULD BE LIKE, TO BE IN A MASTERS STUDIO THAT HAS SUCH HISTORY AND ENERGY.

I LOVE HOW AMINAH HAS GIVEN SUCH SPIRIT TO HER ENVIRONMENT BY ANIMATING THE WALLS WITH HER PAINTINGS.

AS THE SIGN ABOVE SAYS,... THIS IS AMINAH SANCTUARY... I DID NOT ENTER... BUT, I REALLY WANTED TO.


AMINAH HAD THIS OTHER STUDIO BUILT IN HER BACK YARD.


I LOVE THIS ASSEMBLAGE ON THE WOODEN FENCE... YOU CAN'T HELP TO HAVE MEMORIES WHEN YOU SEE THESE MANUAL TOOLS FROM YESTERYEAR.

AMINAH INSIDE HER OUTDOOR STUDIO.... HER SCULPTURE FILLED THE SPACE FROM THE FLOOR TO THE CEILING.

AMINAH WAS "RIGHT ON TIME" WHEN SHE GAVE ME THREE ROCK FROM HER BACK YARD.... I LOVE ROCKS.... AND I LOVE THE ROCKS THAT PEOPLE GIVE ME... A CHOOSEN ROCK SAYS A LOT ABOUT THE GIVEN.


I SAW THIS SIGN AS WE WERE LEAVING. ALL HAND CARVED BY AMINAH.

TWO OF THE MANY MASSIVE QUILTS CREATED BY AMINAH.

THIS WAS THE HIGHPOINT TO THE EXHIBIT (RE) POSSESSED TRAVELING TO COLUMBUS OHIO, WAS MY VISIT TO THE WORK/LIVE/SANCTUARY SPACE OF THE "SUPER BEING OF ANOTHER ORDER" AMINA BRENDA LYNN ROBINSON. I REALLY THANK DR BARBARA NICHOLSON OF THE KING ARTS COMPLEX FOR MAKING THIS HAPPEN.

THIS WAS A FULL VISIT FOR ME I MUST SAY. COLUMBUS OHIO IS SO VERY FORTUNATE TO HAVE THIS LIVING TREASURE OF A ARTIST.

PLEASE VISIT COLUMBUS MUSEUM OF ARTS WEBSITE WERE A INSTALLATION FOR PORTIONS OF THE (RE) POSSESSED IS INSTALLED. THE MUSEUM HAS CREATED A WONDERFUL WEBSITE FOR AMINAH ROBINSON.

http://www.aminahsworld.org/

I HOPE TO BRING YOU MORE INFORMATION ON THIS DEDICATED PASSIONATE ARTIST.

AN OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT ELECT BARACK OBAMA FROM ALICE WALKER: "WE ARE THE ONES WE HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR"

AT HARLEMS SCHOMBERG LIBRARIES ELECTION NIGHT WATCH PARTY. THAT WAS A UNFORGETABLE HISTORICAL NIGHT.

DESIGN WITHOUT END: AN AFTERNOON WITH ARTIST EL ANASUI: METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART NEW YORK CITY, NOV 9, 2008, 3:00PM

I WOULD NOT MISS THIS TALK FOR ANYTHING IN THE WORLD ( or maybe just about anything in the world)

Design Without End: An Afternoon with El Anatsui
November 09, 2008
Part of Sunday at the Met—The Essential Art of African Textiles: Design Without End
Contemporary artist El Anatsui, whose work was recently acquired by the Met, will discuss his art in an interview with Alisa LaGamma, Curator of the exhibition, and Chika Okeke-Agulu, Assistant Professor of African and African Diaspora Art at Princeton University.

Free with Museum admission
3:00 p.m., The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium

MANHATTAN ISLAND SOLD AT BARGAIN PRICE TO DUTCH SETTLERS NOV 5, 1626

Peter Schagen's letter from 1626 reports the Purchase of Manhattan Island by Dutch settlers. Dutch settlers purchased the island from the resident Manhattan tribal leaders in exchange for goods worth a total of sixty Dutch guilders, or the equivalent of about twenty-four dollars today. Two years earlier, Dutch settlers had begun laying the foundations for a town at the southern tip of the island, calling the settlement New Amsterdam. The decision to purchase this island hinged on the fact that it could be easily defended and was centrally located among other Dutch settlements. The colony was run by the West India Company, which gave up its trade monopoly in 1640 and allowed other Dutch merchants to invest in the town. By 1645 Dutch settlers had completely eradicated the Manhattan tribe.

The original spellings have been retained in this document

Letter Regarding the Purchase of Manhattan (1626)


Peter Schagen


From: Documents Relative to the Colonial History of the State of New York, Ed. E. B. O'Callaghan, Vol I, p. 37–38.



Mr. Peter Schagen to the States General; the Island of Manhattans purchased.

High and Mighty Lords:

Yesterday, arrived here the Ship the Arms of Amsterdam, which sailed from New Netherland, out of the River Mauritius, on the 23rd September. They report that our people are in good heart and live in peace there; the Women also have borne some children there. They have purchased the Island Manhattes from the Indians for the value of 60 guilders; 'tis 11,000 morgens in size. They had all their grain sowed by the middle of May, and reaped by the middle of August. They send thence samples of summer grain; such as wheat, rye, barley, oats, buckwheat, canary seed, beans and flax.

The cargo of the aforesaid ship is:-

7246 Beaver skins.

178 1/2 Otter skins.

675 Otter skins.

48 Minck skins.

36 Wild cat skins.

33 Mincks.

34 Rat skins.

Considerable Oak timber and Hickory.

Herewith, High and Mighty Lords, be commended to the mercy of the Almighty.

In Amsterdam, the 5th November, Ad 1626.

Received 7th November, 1626.

Your High Mightinesses' obedient,

(Signed) P. Schagen.

HISTORIC VOTING MORNING NOV 4 2008, HARLEM NEW YORK

I GOT UP 5:30 IN THE MORNING TO BEAT THE CROWDS TO VOTE... IT LOOKED LIKE EVERYONE ELSE IN HARLEM HAD THAT SAME IDEA,.. WE ALL WALKED TO THE POLLS IN THE DARK...

I STOOD ON LINE TO VOTE FOR ABOUT 90 MINUTES.... BUT IT DID NOT SEEM LIKE LONG TO ANY OF US IN LINE.



INSIDE THE VOTEING POLLS HAD AN AMAZING ENERGY..









THE IS HEADQUARTERS ON 135TH BETWEEN LENOX AND 7TH AVE.





SCHOMBERG LIBRARY, WHERE THEY WILL HAVE A ELECTION WATCH PARTY TONITE.

SORRY I CAN NOT WRITE MUCH RIGHT NOW... I HAVE TO GET BACK OUT AND BE IN THIS HISTORIC MOMENT....

TO BE CONTINUED.....