A multimedia engagement with Mama Misty Sol, Boo & Naomi Momoh in conversation about the importance of ritual and collective work in the Black creative tradition.
The Tiny Farm Wagon of CultureTrust of Greater Philadelphia... is a mobile art classroom/greenhouse/gallery inspired by the work of George Washington Carver and dedicated to building new knowledge around community vibrancy through public art projects. Our projects identify, preserve, and promote the threads of wellness that run through Black life. We build gardens, lead workshops, curate stellar art events, Visual Art, Performance, Sound, Installation, and more. And we make delicious plant-based foods from the freshest forest foraged and locally grown ingredients.
We ask the community to consider:
What makes us well?
What keeps us from it?
Interdisciplinary artist, Mama Misty Sol, with fresh baked bread from the Cob Oven (Furrow) a community landmark at Bartram’s Garden.
Misty Sol is a writer, visual artist, and performer from small-town Pennsylvania who creates art that explores Black people’s connections to nature, wellness, and speculation. Her paintings, children’s book illustration, stories and eco practice are heavily influenced by Black history, particularly, by her grandmother’s history as a migrant farmworker, midwife, and gifted storyteller in early 20th century America.Currently she is creating earthworks as a resident in the Lenapehoking Watershed Project. Her works have been exhibited at the Wolfhound Studio in the Zou B. Art Gallery in Chicago, Burlington College, Headlong Theatre, The Moore College of Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Art Splash, and the Colored Girls Museum in Philadelphia. In 2016, Misty Sol received the Leeway Transformation award, for her commitment to socially engaged art. Misty Sol has a BA in Literature from Penn State University Park and an MFA in Interdisciplinary Art from Goddard College.
Boo, engaging young creators at Sankofa Farms 10th Anniversary event.
Boo is a Pasadena-born transdisciplinary artist crafting at the locus of audio engineering, the Black storyteling tradition, cooking, spiritualism, and movement work. They build interactive workshops and performances that ask black folk to investigate our relationships to creation, spirituality, settler colonialism, and the haunting aftermaths of systemized displacement. They are currently working on their first album and a series of short stories surrounding a hyper-industrialized Mojave Desert town and it’s exposure to dark matter.
Naomi Momoh was born in Nigeria and is now based in Philadelphia. She is a sculpture artist with a focus on fiber art techniques and manipulations.
Her work investigates the intersections between race and gender from the point of view of her childhood. Traumas experienced during her childhood, due to these chaotic intersections are expressed through - physical deconstruction of toys / poetic deconstruction of children’s literature / fabric printing / intuitive sewing. Attempts to rebuild these memories and reconcile with her present. These memories are soft scraps / jagged soft forms colliding/ incomplete text that represent this cycle.