Charmaine Minniefield is named an inaugural Constellations Fellow by the Center for Cultural Power

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Praise House Project

Opening at Emory University

October 14-15 -Preview Dates for Elevate Atlanta

October 19 - Opening Event at Glenn Memorial United Methodist Church at Emory

October 20 - December 15 - On view

"Freedom" - of the Indigo Prayers series, 8' x 4', indigo and crushed oyster shells.

Indigo Prayers:

A Creation Story

Indigo Prayers: A Creation Story, a series of paintings by local Atlanta artist, Charmaine Minniefield, inspired by her time in the Gambia, West Africa searching for her grandmother's ancestral lines. The resulting body of work builds on an ongoing exploration of the Ring Shout, an African American practice of resistance whose West African origins predate enslavement. This full-bodied rhythmic prayer was taught to Minniefield by her great-grandmother. It was performed by her ancestors during enslavement as a way to secretly preserve their African identity.

Shown first by the Michael C. Carlos Museum

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Let Us Come Together

Charmaine Minniefield’s virtual performance of the Ring Shout with choreographer Dr. Julie B. Johnson

 

Choreographer/Collaborator Julie B. Johnson and Charmaine Minniefield call upon the Ring Shout as a historical African American spiritual practice, an act of resistance, and a mode of community-building amidst the forces that worked to dismantle communities.

In their words: READ MORE HERE