tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11304074757995856292024-03-20T20:44:43.648-04:00Caryl's Art HappeningsCreative Action with Communities Making Positive Change!Caryl Henry-Alexanderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04088981219733529198noreply@blogger.comBlogger104125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1130407475799585629.post-13710313859104439932021-08-27T20:43:00.001-04:002021-08-27T20:44:53.375-04:00<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6sGEr0JOw-ZSyRqrpUEA7eUD-u92I-QFarxydFnV9fAwafe3y4EapI0bheZoI3_KXgXlRldR6n-2pdA08gfPf3FvCppNuZGtcW9ZkmAPsg9sOBeIUqEOnjPXlLYMTQt-35fE-LskyMoKq/s2048/%25232-artislife.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1489" height="443" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6sGEr0JOw-ZSyRqrpUEA7eUD-u92I-QFarxydFnV9fAwafe3y4EapI0bheZoI3_KXgXlRldR6n-2pdA08gfPf3FvCppNuZGtcW9ZkmAPsg9sOBeIUqEOnjPXlLYMTQt-35fE-LskyMoKq/w325-h443/%25232-artislife.jpg" width="325" /></a></div><br />Caryl Henry-Alexanderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04088981219733529198noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1130407475799585629.post-9637729169143372612020-01-22T10:14:00.002-05:002020-01-22T10:14:57.438-05:00Mural at 3 part harmony farm standing strong! Good morning<br />
What fun to see my work creating <a href="https://carylhenryalexander.blogspot.com/2016/02/three-part-harmony-farm-community-mural.html">a mural with the Three Part Harmony Farm</a> community standing strong in this video by <a href="https://matteroffact.tv/seeds-of-change-how-urban-farming-is-helping-erase-food-deserts/">Soledad O'Brian</a>! The mural is pictured as part of
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<span class="text_exposed_show">Well done Gail in your work to create a community operated, urban farm that improves the health
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<span class="text_exposed_show"><br /></span>Caryl Henry-Alexanderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04088981219733529198noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1130407475799585629.post-65973354623763097452020-01-10T18:31:00.001-05:002020-01-10T18:31:52.706-05:00#NoSacrificeZone NO MATTAWOMAN POWER PLANT!<div data-contents="true">
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Today I'm reflecting on my first creative gathering with the Highlander Maryland strategic Team. My purpose was to engage the participants in hands on art making with a focus on Identity. </span><br />
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<br />Caryl Henry-Alexanderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04088981219733529198noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1130407475799585629.post-76663011264706836232019-04-27T13:29:00.000-04:002019-04-27T13:29:50.273-04:00Charm for Asian and African Women Farmers<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">I want to share this most recent project with you wonderful supporters of my work. The story of the piece is as follows:</span></i></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Caryl Henry Alexander</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Tradition, my sisters, is
what brings this artwork—<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Charm for Asian
and African Women Farmers</i>—into being. The work was conceived after a lively
conversation that I had with three leading women at <a href="http://vietlead.org/">Vietlead.org</a>, a Vietnamese
community cultural organization in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The conversation was about
growing “bitter melon”</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;"> (Momordica charantia)</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">, which is a much loved and
traditional medicinal food in Asia. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">There was an elder woman
farmer from Vietnam, who had been growing bitter melon for many years. She was
happy to share her practice with me. She helped me to understand the plant
intimately; and it was a beautiful experience. She explained how to treat the
roots as the plant grows to support a strong harvest and made clear how to manage
the vine’s growth with a mind to support its </span><i><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">proliferation
of blossoms and, ultimately, fruit.</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">For me, it was a magical conversation because I had been
studying this amazing plant in my plant medicine classes. The generous spirits
of these women are with me in my garden today as I cultivate the plant medicine
that supports my well being and that of many in my community.</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">When I traveled to West Africa this past winter, my
plan was to create artworks that are plant-based both thematically as well as
materially. I visioned connecting with Nigerian and Ghanaian women farmers and
herbalists to learn about their traditions and current practices in plant
medicine. </span></i><br />
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women’s respect for, a plant they call “bitter leaf” (</span></i><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">ernonia amygdalina), which is </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">indigenous
to tropical Africa<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">. The women showed
me how to identify the plant and explained to me its many uses in food and as a
medicinal preparation.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">I began to notice at least one of
these plants, which is a shrub, in most family urban compounds; and saw fields
of the plant being cultivated whenever I traveled to rural areas. I learned about
the life cycle of the plant, its anatomy, and how it is grown and used by women
to strengthen the health and wellness of their families and communities. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">I came to realize that this
plant’s medicine, its cultural context, and the connection that the women had
to it is quite similar to that of the bitter melon. The bitter spirit of these
plants is what is most prized in both culinary and medicinal practice.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">It is in the healing energetics
of the plants in this charm that I endeavor to connect my Asian and African
farming sisters. It is a coming together of the power of the earth, the soil,
water, and the seasons.</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Thank you, my Asian and African
sisters, for sharing your wisdom and connection with our planet. We are one in
our love of the earth.</span><br />
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Charm for Asian and African Women Farmers</span></i><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">was created in Ibadan, Nigeria; Ntonso, Ghana; and
Clinton, Maryland (USA). </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">It is comprised of plant-based materials including banana
and pineapple leaves, lemon grass, cotton, sumac flowers, onion skin, English ivy,
and bamboo; and finished off with acrylic paint and love.</span><br />
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Caryl Henry-Alexanderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04088981219733529198noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1130407475799585629.post-90991017724458057232019-03-08T20:18:00.002-05:002019-03-08T20:18:20.758-05:00Huntington Community Center gallery March 2019WOW! These sculptures, "Charms for the Anacostia River" look awesome at Huntington Community Center
gallery in Bowie! They are part of an exhibition of the Poetry Poster Project.<br />
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Maybe you remember these sculptures from last Summer when they
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for your support in making the exhibition happen. Thanks to Jesse
Alexander for representing me and photographing the gallery last night. Caryl Henry-Alexanderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04088981219733529198noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1130407475799585629.post-9656633684226293322018-12-05T20:08:00.000-05:002018-12-05T20:09:43.810-05:00Fox Haven Farm yard art and solstice wreaths<br />
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I love this time of year, don’t you? The plants and trees
doing their thing, resting and building strength for the coming Spring. The
visual splendor of the naked branches is tickling my eyes! </div>
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my yard art with vines workshop last spring and the <a href="https://carylhenryalexander.blogspot.com/2018/05/fox-haven-farm-garden-charms-workshop.html">awesome
sculptures</a> that they created for their gardens. I would love to see their
work in the spaces that they lived in this Summer. </div>
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So yesterday I received an invite to propose a workshop at
Fox Haven for 2018 and I started thinking about Springtime herbal wreaths and
was looking around to see how to create a wreath. In doing so I realized that by
now the leaves have given way and there should be an awesome vine framework on
which to build a wreath! Repurposed vines, repurposed artwork!<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Today we did a pop up art event at our local polling place. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We participated in #PartyatthePolls! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It was fun! Until there were no ballots for people to cast their votes....for hours!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Our challenge was the rules against electioneering within 50ft of the poll. I don't think that was what we were doing but the rule caused us to not have access to the voters as they waited to vote. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I heard about #PartyatthePolls on social media. </span><br />
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is a nationwide initiative for artists to help make voting fun by offering
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This National event looked like an awesome opportunity to engage with our super local residents. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Goals: Most importantly to increase the profile and conversation
around art-poetry and creativity in South County and to share through
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PG County creatives, artists Caryl Henry and John Lee Ranta and poets
Jesse Alexander and Hiram Larew with a special guest poet Rocky Jones
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">This week, I have been working
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Here is the wall as I saw it during an initial site visit!</span><br />
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Yesterday was the culminating workday with my Prince Georges County Summer Youth Employment Program team.<br />
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I heard today that they have removed 10000 sq ft in their 4 week project! Wow that is awesome! This work makes our trails much safer!<br />
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So my part in all of this was to work with SYEP in the afternoons 2x a week to create a collaborative public sculpture to live on a tree along the Anacostia river in the parks Art on the Trails project. We worked with the vines that they were pulling each morning and natural twine.<br />
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My idea was to create an imagination provocation, a visual element that
sparks creative thinking! The work would be installed on a mock pear
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I visioned the workshops to be like a quilting bee or a tamale making party. Everyone has a role that is essential for the whole project to be a success, and a safe space to share stories. <br />
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Most days the youth were pretty tired from their morning's work pulling weeds.For the first few workshops, we were under the tree that we were creating the artwork to hang onto. Later in the week, as the rain really set in we worked under the park's awesome <em>pavilion.</em><br />
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There were a few opportunities for interesting conversations around higher education and safety when playing sports. The hand work was sparse as the young people were captivated by their phones but with the support of a couple of the group leaders ultimately the project is wonderful!Caryl Henry-Alexanderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04088981219733529198noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1130407475799585629.post-15006646272231238872018-07-10T09:12:00.001-04:002018-07-10T09:12:48.465-04:00PAPERMAKING Sacred Creative-Nature-Time THIS PAST SATURDAY GRATITUDE GARDEN:<br />
Papermaking with natural materials workshop!<br />
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<br />Caryl Henry-Alexanderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04088981219733529198noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1130407475799585629.post-31833326878456354252018-07-03T13:34:00.002-04:002018-07-03T14:08:04.311-04:00UPDATE:Fox Haven Farm Garden Charms WorkshopI was happily surprised to receive this awesome text from Stacie!<br />
Thanks so much for sharing your beautiful creation! @FoxHavenFarm<br />
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Hi this is Stacie. I took your Fox Haven class a couple months ago. Kim
shared your number with me. Just wanted to thank you for helping me with
my birth alter. It is complete and is amazing!<br />
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The cloth is indigo dyed, from <a href="http://www.tribuneonlineng.com/54083/">Abiokuta, Nigeria</a></div>
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The herbal recipe was divined by me and each small pillow is filled with herbs!</div>
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It was so much fum sewing the pillow by hand, It reminded me of hanging and sewing with my grandmother in her basement sewing room. It was free wheeling sewing this time with stitches going where they needed to go!</div>
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<br />Caryl Henry-Alexanderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04088981219733529198noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1130407475799585629.post-10666129845983953152018-06-18T08:30:00.000-04:002018-06-18T08:30:05.751-04:00Where will you place your Charms in your garden?NEXT SATURDAY<br />
Gratitude Garden Saturday June 23 10am!<br />
Charms for your garden are very cool visual affirmations.<br />
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For me they bring my creative energy into the life of my garden.<br />
They can hang, be staked or lean, depending on the specific site where it will reside.<br />
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This design would be great with a vine sphere! Bring your imagination!<br />
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<br />Caryl Henry-Alexanderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04088981219733529198noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1130407475799585629.post-25226388749220320382018-06-06T09:58:00.000-04:002018-06-06T09:58:44.677-04:00Caryl Henry Alexander-Epic City Radio Interview Recording Let me know what you think!<br />
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The conversation with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolivia_Herron">Carolivia Herron</a> was really fun!<br />
She is so warm and welcoming! As was her fabulous engineer, Alex Lima, I appreciate his insights and comments.<br />
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A special thanks to <a href="https://kupendiza.com/">Karen James Cody</a> for introducing me to Carolivia, to my wonderful supportive husband Jesse Alexander and to comedian Ruth for sharing her thoughts during the show.<br />
<br />Caryl Henry-Alexanderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04088981219733529198noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1130407475799585629.post-62576734197306359962018-05-21T21:46:00.001-04:002018-05-21T21:52:23.251-04:00I trust that you have saved the date.....Saturday June 23 Start getting inspired for our yard art/charms workshop!<br />
<a href="https://goodwillsp.wordpress.com/2012/08/23/yard-art-day-a-celebration-of-the-reused-the-upcycled-the-unconventional/"> I love this idea from GOODWILL!</a><br />
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<br />Caryl Henry-Alexanderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04088981219733529198noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1130407475799585629.post-86526567812487971542018-05-16T17:00:00.000-04:002018-05-16T17:00:12.801-04:00Fox Haven Farm Garden Charms Workshop<a href="http://foxhavenfarm.org/events/gratitude-tree-collaborative-art-workshop/">Fox Haven Farm</a> Garden Charms Workshop on May 12 was a lot of fun!<br />
Thanks so much to the amazing Lacey Walker for the invite! <br />
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It was beautiful warm day and our group of plant lovers went on a forage. Down the driveway from the teaching garden we took a right turn and were immediately in a serious vine zone! We took a few minutes to look around and identify the plants that were in the area. Abundance was the surrounding us in all directions above and below.<br />
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Trees, vines, herbs, birds, water, ya know the whole smear!<br />
So folks set out to connect and harvest the plants with which they most identified.<br />
Grapevine-Honeysuckle-Wisteria-English Ivy, Virginia Creeper, Bittersweet were most popular. The land on the edge of the farm road was super generous and we were
able to relieve a tree from vines that were choking it. We all heard the tree's big sigh of relief. Yeah!<br />
We gathered what we needed and headed back up the hill to work on the barn's patio.<br />
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There was lots of space for folks to work on their charms and we reaffirmed our purpose and got started. I shared a story about the "Listen"tree sculpture that I worked on with artist Larry Jones in 2015. That piece is part of an Art on the Trails project that our county @PGParks has initiated that features artwork created from natural materials on our park trails. The original idea was to allow trail users to experience the artwork as it continues on it's natural cycle of decomposition. Listen was a vine project, with bittersweet as it's main material. I encouraged participants to allow the materials of their charms to do the same.<br />
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The resulting Charms were fun, most had the vine's leaves on them and looked almost cloaked, in green. The magic will be exposed as nature runs it's course. Bravo!<br />
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This past weekend I had the first of four Gratitude Garden 2018 Events. </div>
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Our subject was MIXED MEDIA SELFIES!<br />
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beautiful flowering plant that grows in the wild in the Mediterranean.
It is cultivated and used widely throughout Europe for its healing
properties and for a nice addition to a salad. Borage is also cultivated
in the US, where it is more popular as an herbal supplement rather than
a food product. The leaves are robust and have medicinal properties and
the topper of the plant is a striking blue star shaped flower hence the
name. The flowers are edible as well and are often found candied for
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Great! I love trees!
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I live amongst trees-the woods as my dad called them and they are my friends!</div>
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I would like to think that the trees around our home, help
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I wish us, the birds, animals, weeds and bugs a season with
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