Exhibitions & Curatorial

VISUAL ARTS/EXHIBITION:

  • 3 PHOTOS in group show, “ClothesLine” @ Painted Bride Gallery Center, Philadelphia, PA. March 7-April 12, 2014
  • 4  photos in group show, “Quadrille & Quelbe” @ The Steeple Bdlg Gallery, St Croix, Feb 13-Aoril 18, 2014
  • 35 photos, “Haiti: Still Standing,” Embarcadero Library, Oakland, Ca, October 1-30, 2013
  • 5 photos: “Swing,” “The Bells Tools,” “Freedom Calls, “Spirits of Things” & “Guardian/Protector,” in Moko Jumbies: Guardians & Protectors Group Show, CMCArts. Frederiksted, St. Croix, January- February 2013 & The Steeple Building, March-May, 2013.
  • 5 photos: “Believe,” “Foundation,”  “Walking on Water,” Sisters,” & “Awakening,” In Open Field to Dream: Arts Educators Group Show, CMCArts. Frederiksted, St. Croix, June- August 2012
  • 2 photos: 1 B&W, “After School Dare,” and  “Elders,” In group show, A Choice of Weapons: The New Renaissance Artist 2 119SEIU Gallery, New York, April 25, 2012-May 30, 2012.
  • 3 photos: “Assurance,’ “Divine,” & “Elders” in Art And Rum Party at Bratenahl, Washington, D.C. April 28 and  House to Cathedral, D.C., April 29, 2012
  • 12 color photos, “Another Haiti,” pictures taken in January 2011 in Port a Prince, Haiti,@ MFA Gallery, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, November- December , 2011.
  • 40 color photos, “The Intricacies of Culture Revisited,” @ Studio One, Oakland, Ca., May 1 – June 3, 2009.
  • 50 color photos, “The Intricacies of Culture Revisited,” @ Prescott Center, Oakland, Ca., February-March, 2009
  • 1 color photos, “Grooving on the Green,” In The Art of the Living Black 13th Annual Bay Area Black Artist Exhibition, Richmond Art Center, Ca, February – March, 2007.
  • 2 color photos, “Chaining It Up,” & “Love Is” in Resilience: My Culture, My People, Me! The African American Center of the San Francisco Public Library, August-October 2008.
  • 1 color photo collage, “A Glimpse of Egypt,” in California College of the Arts Faculty Exhibition, Ca., September 2-10, 2008.
  • 28 color images, Solo Show, “The Intricacies of Culture,” from Egypt and Jamaica @ Rockridge Library Gallery, Ca., April 1-30, 2008
  • 38 color photos, “Feeling Home Everywhere,” from Brazil, Cuba, Jamaica, Trinidad, South Africa & South Carolina, In YWCA, Berkeley, Ca., February 5-April 5, 2008.
  • I color photo, “Some Jamaican Men,” In The Art of the Living Black 12th Annual Bay Area Black Artist Exhibition, Richmond Art Center, Ca, February 5, – March 14, 2007.
  • 2 color photos, “Ras Meets Jah,’ & “The Farmer,” In Push Play at the Oakpod Gallery, Oakland, August-September, 2007.
  • 1 color collage photo, “The Priestess & Her Wares,” In The Art of the Living Black 11th Annual Bay Area Black Artist Exhibition, Richmond Art Center, Ca, February 3, – March 15, 2007.
  • 1 color photos, “Sister Sorting Peppers,” In Breaking Ice, 4th Annual San Francisco International Art Festival, May-June, 2007
  • 6 black & white photo from the Cuba series and 6 color photos from Brazil in Group Show, “A Celebration of Latin Art, Health & Community,” at WCRC Gallery, Oakland, CA., September 23-October 25, 2006
  • “Swimming with Yemanja in Barzil,” mixed media, in Faculty Group Show, California College of the Arts, Ca, September 6-28, 2006
  • 2 mixed-media pieces, “Inside the teeth of Love” & “So This is It,” in traveling exhibit, “Afetos Roubados No Tempo” curated by Dr. Virginia Gordihlho Martins, Salvador, Bahia, March –September (different cites throughout Brazil before if final destination in South Africa) 2006.
  • 4 pieces in Conversations/Conversaciones: Women Collaborate, de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara University, January 17-March 14, 2004.
  • “Working Man,” photo/poem, In the Art of Living Black 2004, January 28-March 20, 2004, Richmond Art Center, Ca.
  • “The Orisha Bottle Series,” 2002 Juried Group Show at Pro Arts, Oakland, Ca., October 18, 2002 – February 1, 2003. 
  • “Cuban Series, I-VI,” photographs with poem & “Going South I-III” Eye of the Lens: Black Bay Area Photographers group show, The African American Historical and Cultural Society Museum, San Francisco, October 16 -December 30,20027 Foothill College Library Gallery, Los Altos Hills, CA., Feb 1-28, 2003
  • “Cuban Series, I-IV,” photographs with poem, Faculty Group Show, California College of Arts & Crafts, Oakland, CA., September 9-14, 2002.
  • “The Lesson of the Bone,” mixed media – bones, boxes, tissue, poems, group show, “Life or…? Visions of the Hopi Prophecy,” Pro Arts, Oakland, Ca., August 28-October 5, 2002
  • “Amandala/Power” artist-in-resident group show, Tryon Center for the Visual Arts, Charlotte, N.C., September – December 2000.
  • “Beyond Color” group show of Ethnic Studies Faculty from CCAC, April-May 2000. Mixed media piece: South Africa Grows Forgiveness & Amandala/Power”
  • Caribbean Women: Big and Little, visual poetry (a collaborative effort with photography Kathy Sloane which combines her photographer of Caribbean women with my complementary poetry).  This work was exhibited at The Women’s Resource Center, University of California at Berkeley, February, 1988 and at the Student Union Art Gallery, San Francisco State University, March 1988.
  • “Kwanzaa Celebration” in group show, ART FOR THE HOLIDAYS, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA., November 25, 1997-January 4, 1998.
  • “Take Your Time,” in collaboration with Caryl Henry and Chapoo Alafonte in Building Bridges/Crossing Cultures Exhibition at Hearst Art Gallery, St Mary’s College, California, September-November 1996.
  • “Envoys – Association of Women Artists International Postcard Project,” at Lopdell House Gallery, Waitakere City, New Zeland, April -May 1996.
  • “Can You See Yourself,” & “Skin Deep” (photo, fabric, paper) in group show, (in)FORMING THE VISUAL: (re)PRESENTING WOMEN OF AFRICAN DESCENT at The Montgomery Gallery, Pomona College, CA., Jan 23-March 26, 1995.

CURATORIAL:

  • Quadrille & Quelbe: Crucian Culture, Group Show,  17 artists in different mediums @ The Steeple Building, St Croix, February13- April 18,  2014 
  • Moko Jumbies: Guardians & Protectors Group Show,  26 artists in different mediums, CMCArts. Frederiksted, St. Croix, January- February 2013 & The Steeple Building, March-May, 2013.
  • Open Field to Dream: Arts Educators Group Show, CMCArts. Frederiksted, St. Croix, June- August 2012
  • Curated many shows at Grand Oak Gallery, Oakland, Ca.  1984-1996
  • Co-curated with Pamela Franco, “Contemporary West Indian Artists” at The African American Historical Society, San Francisco, CA., December 1983-February 1994.

PUBLICATION CREDITS:

  • 5 color photos, Haiti in Afro-Beat Journal, Issue 2: Spring, 2011
  • 6 black and white in the Caribbean Writer, Volume 25, 2011
  • 3 color photo of Haiti in Voices of Haiti, April 2011
  • Eight Black & White photos of Jamaica in Edinburgh Review 123: Caribbean Logic, UK, 2008, pp. 53-60.
  • Three color photo, Egypt & Jamaica in Colere, Issue 8, Iowa, 2008,  cover and p. 14 & 50.