MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND... REMEMBERING CHIEF SEATTLE AT HIS GRAVE SITE ON THE SUQUAMISH RESERVATION NEAR SEATTLE WASHINGTON

WHILE I WAS IN SEATTLE, I TOOK A FERRY TO BAINBRIDGE ISLAND TO VISIT A CHILDHOOD FRIEND AND WE DROVE THROUGH THE SUQUAMISH RESERAVATION, 

I WAS SO EXCITED TO SEE CHIEF SEATTLE AND CHIEF KITSAP'S BURIAL MONUMENTS.

I WAS SPEECHLESS...

THIS IS CHIEF SEATTLES GRAVESITE... IT WAS INSTALLED IN 2009.

IT WAS A PLEASURE VISITING THE SITE.... THE GROUNDS ARE SO BEAUTIFULLY KEPT.

COLLEGE ARTS ASSOCIATION 2013 CONFERENCE IN NYC. CALL FOR PAPERS BY SESSION CHAIR ARTIST XENOBIA BAILEY

Xenobia Bailey: Artist, Cultural-Activist, is inviting proposals of papers to present at a session she is chairing at the 101st College Arts Association Conference, which takes place Feb 13-16, 2013, in New York City titled.

FUNTIONING WITH NOTHING BUT THE FUNK: BLACK ART AND DESIGN, THE FINAL FRONTIER IN RECONSTRUCTION

Xenobia Bailey, independent artist, xenba@yahoo.com

During the Atlantic slave trade, North America procured a labor force of approximately 3,000,000 enslaved Africans, whose traditional skills, cultural lifestyles, and vernacular art was suppressed, for the development of the industrial economy of North America.

Through memory, these suppressed arts, and the spirit of antiquity, emerges through contemporary homemakers, artists, and musicians in African American communities...along with 400 years of post-traumatic stress disorders, all brilliantly articulated in Funk Music.

There is an urgent need for research and development of the theory and properties of the aesthetic of  Funk, for redevelopment of distressed industrial towns, that can blossom into industrious communities. The practice and philosophy of Funk in urban planning, can rejuvenate urban ruins and decay into a model city.

Seeking papers on the history of the aesthetic of Funk, Black Reconstruction of the 1860s, and/or the black migration north. Explain how the aesthetic of Funk is a catalyst for engineer, architect, design and studios, innovative trades and craft workshops, to revitalize the humanities in inner cities, through product designs, packaged goods, services, advertisement, art education, and art therapy.

| Proposals | College Art Association | CAA | Advancing the history, interpretation, and. www.collegeart.org Founded in 1911, the College Art Association Promotes excellence in scholarship and teaching in the history and criticism of the visual arts and in creativity and technical skill in the teaching and practices of art. And much, much more.http://www.collegeart.org/proposals/

XENOBIA BAILEY'S WESTERN MEDICINE HAT

THIS MEDICINE HAT IS MADE FROM (DARK YARN) BUFFALO YARN FROM A RANCH IN TEXAS AND YARN FROM THE FIRST SHEARING OF A BABY LAMB (BROWN YARN) FROM A RANCH IN UPSTATE NEW YORK.

THE FEATHER IN THE HAT, IS A OWLS FEATHER, MY NIECE FOUND THIS FEATHER IN A FOREST IN SEATTLE, AT THE FOOT OF A TREE THAT HAD A NEST WITH A MOMMA OWL AND HER TWO BABY OWLS IN IT... MY NIECE FINDS ALL OF MY FEATHER WHEN SHE TAKES HER MEDICINE WALKS IN NATURE.

THESE ARE ALL DIFFERENT VIEWS OF THE SAME MEDICINE HAT.

THANKS FOR CHECKING OUT MY BLOG... I PLAN TO UPDATE MORE OFTEN.... HAVE A BLESSED DAY!

I JUST FINISHED THIS QUEEN MOTHA CROCHET CROWN.... I'M EXPANDING ON MY THE FUNKY-FLY MATURE WOMANS SILHOUETTE FOR MY FALL & WINTER 2012 COLLECTION...


THESE ARE ALL THE SAME CROCHET CROWN, PHOTOGRAPHED IN DIFFERENT LIGHTING TO SHOW THE SCULPTURE OF THE CROWN.

THIS CROWN IS FOR SELL, IT WILL BE IN MY ETSY STORE VERY SOON....

THANKS FOR CHECKING IT OUT.

FUNKY-FLY URBAN BOHEMIAN CROCHET CROWNS FOR MEN

THIS CROWN HAS ALL READY SOLD... BUT... THIS STYLE CAN BE MADE TO ORDER ON xenba.etsy.com

NEW CROCHET CREATIONS, ORIGINAL DESIGN, READY TO ORDER AT xenba.etsy.com

CHECK-OUT MY ETSY HANDMADE PORTRAITS: XENOBIA BAILEY (Please Click on this text to view video)

EMERGENCY ALERT FOR "THE GRANDEST WIZARD", "ATOMIC-DAWG-BABA-SUPREME" GEORGE CLINTON, THIS IS A GLOBAL STUDIO FUNDRAISER, SHOUT-OUT

(PLEASE OPEN THIS LINK AND CHECK OUT THIS IMPORTANT FUNDRAISER)
http://www.indiegogo.com/Fundraser-for-C-Kunspyruhzy-and-What-Studios

LISTEN-UP WORLD.... THE "FUNK" BEING IN NEED LIKE THIS, AIN'T THE WAY IT'S SUPPOSE TO BE HAPPENING!!!....

LET'S SHOW OUR RESPECT & LOVE FOR THIS GENIUS AND HIS CREW OF REBELS FOR UP-HOLDING THE STAINED BANNERS OF FUNK FOR ALL THESE LIVE-LONG YEARS...

PASS THE LINK AND THE WORD AROUND TO EVERYONE IN YOUR CIRCLE... THE BROTHER REALLY NEEDS TO GET BACK ON TRACK AND GET BACK ALL WHAT WAS LAWFULLY TAKEN FROM HIM.... (HE'S TAKENING IT ABOVE, BELOW, AROUND AND BEYONDER THE COURTS, HE'S TAKING IT TO US!!!)

PS... I THINK GEORGE CLINTON NEEDS ONE OF MY "FUNK FLY CROWNS"... WHAT DO YA'LL THINK?

PEACE

YA'LL

FIBER ARTIST/COMMUNITY CULTURAL ACTIVIST XENOBIA BAILEY WILL SPEAK ON A PANEL AT THE CAA 100th ANNUAL CONFERENCE IN LOS ANGELES 2/22/2012

GREETINGS FOLKS... I'LL BE SPEAKING ON A PANEL IN L.A. AT THE COLLEGE ARTS ASSOCIATIONS CONFERENCE: 2.22.2012, FROM 2:30-5:00PM.

I WILL SPEAK (PANEL TITLE BELOW) ABOUT THE ULTRA CREATIVE AND EXTRAORDINARY EVERYDAY WOMAN & GIRLS FROM MY COMMUNITY IN SEATTLE WASHINGTON, NEW YORK CITY AND OTHER COMMUNITIES ACROSS THE COUNTRY, WHO WERE A VITAL PART OF MY EARLY DEVELOPMENT AND STILL INSPIRE MY VISION, DIRECTION AND IDENTITY AS A FIBER ARTIST/COMMUNITY CULTURAL ACTIVIST TODAY.

CAA Committee on Women in the Arts

“Necessary Positions”: Intergenerational Collaboration in Feminist Art and Activism

Wednesday, February 22, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Concourse Meeting Room 407, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chair: Maria Elena Buszek, University of Colorado, Denver

(RE)PRESENT: An Ongoing Intergenerational Collaboration
Nancy Azara, independent artist, and
Katie Cercone, School of the Visual Arts

Still Partying: A Collective Response to Judy Chicago’s "Dinner Party"
Margaret Cuonzo and Liz Rudey, Long Island University, Brooklyn Campus

Losing the Mother/Daughter Plot? Bridging the Generational Divide in Feminist Art Practice, Theory, and History
Joanne Heath, University of Leeds

Paradise in Her Hands: Blasts of Inspiration, the Activation of Creative Flow, and the Discovery of the Wonder-Worlds of Fiber
Xenobia Bailey, independent artist

"Necessary Positions:" A Dialogue
Suzanne Lacy, Otis College of Art and Design, and Andrea Bowers, independent artist

XENOBIA BAILEY SOLO EXHIBIT AT SEATTLES NORTHWEST AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM OPENING OCT 29, 2011 6-8:00PM

This is an open invitation to my Home-Coming Solo Exhibit at the Northwest African American Museum in Seattle Washington. I’ll be sharing parts of the Fruits of my discoveries, of the Mystical Treasures of the Aesthetic of Funk from my Creative Explorations in the Eastern part of the United States, from the past some-odd-years in the medium of Crochet.

This exhibition will be held at the Northwest African American Museum (Which has an amazing history of it’s own). Located at 2300 South Massachusetts St. Seattle, Washington 98144. October 29, 2011-May 6, 2012.

Exhibit Opening Reception: October 29, 2011, 6:00-9:00pm. (Free)

With this project I have taken the basis homemakers craft of crochet… a humble decorative technique, commonly used to create baby clothing & accessories, doilies, tablecloths, bedspreads, window drapes and afghans to adorn the home, and altered it into an crochet Arts-of-Jubilation, composing energizing surface designs of contrasting colors and repetitive linear patterns. Creating handmade wall hanging, floor covering and soft furnishings of assembled crochet mandalas.

These Inspirational accessorized Artifacts bear witness to Re-Possessing the Ever-lasting, Ever-flowing, Sustaining Spirit of the Aesthetic of Funk, and the abilities of this under cultivated aesthetic to enhance daily life of the Super-Natural Nature of Everyday People through the art of crochet.

The important element of the cultural evolution of the Aesthetic of Funk in the African American Community, is the raw power surge of “Black Consciousness & Experiences” that has sustaining Black people through Spiritually uplifting Funky Music since Emancipation Proclamation of the 1860’s.

This exhibit is a works-in-progress. My artistic mission is to research, develop and organize the fragmented and disassemble African American’s domestic textile cultural history, into my interpretation of the evolution of crochet and the visual aesthetic of Funk.

Starting with African American Vernacular FolkArt, to the Beautification of the Humble Rural & Urban Home. The Fine Art, Abstracted Narrative Compositions of Jacob Lawrence. Onward to the Funky Assemblage Fine Art Sculptures of Nick Caves. The Cubist abstractions of William T. Williams. To Odili Donald Odita Mystical abstractioned murals. And on and on and on, into the emergence of Abstract Designs for Products designed exclusively in the Aesthetic of Funk for family, community and Global Re-Juvenation & development.

This epic Body of Works is exploring Crochet and the Aesthetic of Funk as an Inspirational alternative lifestyle of Deliverance into self sustainability. This concept of personally designing in the aesthetic of Funk, is suited for the sensibility of all creative communities and all those who feel the Tribe-Vibe call of Nature.

“THIS IS HOW WE DO IT IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST! SO COME VIBE WITH US IN THIS EMERALD CITY AT THE NORTHWEST AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM!”

Sandra Jackson-Dumont is the guest curator of XENOBIA BAILEY: THE AESTHETIC OF FUNK. She is the Kayla Skinner Deputy Director for Education + Contemporary Art Dept. at the Seattle Art Museum.

Sandra Jackson-Dumont is an independent writer/curator/cultural producer.

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I really love the energy in this store... They are really serious and take pride inhttp://www.vaultharlem.com their product....