ADAMA Arts Salon #44
ADAMA Arts Salon is a series of conversations featuring contemporary artists, curators, scholars, and more from across the African Diaspora.
Join us for ADAMA's upcoming in-person Arts Salon featuring Kimberly Binns to moderate a conversation with scholar and artists Honey Pierre and Dawn Williams Boyd.
About Moderator: Kimberly Binns is a multi-disciplinary artist and producer working in digital media, architectural design, painting, drawing, and photography. Binns’s projection mapping and moving image installations have been central elements to a number of award winning projects, including the Praise House Project. She is also a recent recipient of the prestigious Suzi Bass Award for projection design. Originally from Washington, D.C., she received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Georgia State University and currently works and lives in Atlanta, Georgia.
Honey Pierre: Cassandra Hickey, known as Honey Pierre, is an Atlanta-based fiber artist with three years of experience in this medium and a total of six years of experience in painting. She hails from Cleveland, Ohio, and made the transition to Atlanta, Georgia, in 2018. Her journey there has been marked by mentorship, mastery, and significant growth as a fiber artist. Cassandra has an impressive exhibition record, having participated in 30 group exhibits, held two successful solo exhibitions, and contributed installations to offices and public spaces.
Dawn Williams Boyd: Her artwork reflects her interest in American history as it affects and is affected by its African American citizens. After more than 30 years successfully painting in oils and acrylic paints, in 2002 this prolific artist began to 'paint' with fabric instead of on fabric. Her large scale ‘cloth paintings’ are representative and packed with vibrant, often life-sized figures. Strategically placed beads, sequins, cowry shells, laces, silk ribbons and, occasionally, acrylic paints are added to embellish the surface. Through cutting, patching, surface enhancement and quilting, bits and pieces of fabric are transformed into modern visual storytelling. Her work is included in the permanent collections of the Birmingham Museum of Art, Columbus Museum, Everson Museum of Art, Equal Justice Initiative, Legacy Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Richardson Family Art Museum, Wofford College, Spartanburg, and numerous private collections.