Adama Delphine Fawundu
Adama Delphine Fawundu’s vibrant large-scale screenprints made at the LeRoy Neiman Center for Print Studies in 2023 explore themes centered around ancestral memory. They are comprised of images and materials made in sites of Black resistance within the African Diaspora. This series pays homage to those who escaped the perils of slavery to create new thriving communities with great respect for the environment and each other while preserving African roots. These prints were inspired by the artist’s grandmother, who had a thriving textile business from 1950-90 in Sierra Leone, West Africa.
In 2018, Fawundu received the Rema Hort Mann Emerging Artist Award, was named OkayAfrica’s 100 Women making an impact on Africa and its Diaspora and included in the Royal Photographic Society’s (UK) Hundred Heroines. Fawundu’s awards also include New York Foundation of the Arts Photography Fellow, Brooklyn Art Council Grant, Open Society Foundation Community Fellow, the Brooklyn Historical Society Community Initiative Grant, BRIC Workspace Artist-in-Residence and Center for Book Arts artist-in-residence. Fawundu has had one-person exhibitions at The Newark Museum of Art, NJ, the African America Museum in Philadelphia, and Crush Curatorial in Chelsea, NY. Her works can be found in numerous private and public collections including the Brooklyn Museum of Art, The Brooklyn Historical Society, The Norton Museum of Art and The Museum of Contemporary Art of São Paulo, Brazil among others.
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For the Maroon in We, 2023
Screenprint with gold leaf on indigo-dyed mulberry paper
40 x 28 inches
Paper: Mulberry
Edition: 8
$5,000
For the Quilombo in We, 2023
Screenprint with gold leaf on indigo-dyed mulberry paper
60 x 28 inches
Paper: Mulberry
Edition: 8
$6,500
For the Gullah in We, 2023
Screenprint with gold leaf on indigo-dyed mulberry paper
72 x 28 inches
Paper: Mulberry
Edition: 8
$7,500