ADAMA Arts Salon #47

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 Takeyah Young to moderate a conversation on the topic of ancestral memory, with artist Charmaine Minniefield.

About Moderator: A village leader for ADAMA Takeyah Young plays a pivotal role contributing to the growth and development of the organization (the village). Young is an industrious thinker, engaging speaker, personal and professional leadership consultant, and STEM advocate who operates at the intersection of innovation, transformational leadership, and entrepreneurship as pathways for legacy building. An engineer by training, project manager and educator in practice, and entrepreneur at heart, she provides strategic planning, project management, technical writing, and management solutions as an independent consultant.

Charmaine Minniefield: Firmly rooted in womanist social theory and ancestral veneration, the work of Charmaine Minniefield draws from indigenous traditions as seen throughout Africa and the Diaspora to explore African and African-American history, memory, and ritual as an intentional push back against erasure. Her creative practice is community-based as her research and resulting bodies of work often draw from public archives. Minniefield currently serves as an inaugural Constellations Fellow with the Center for Cultural Power. She splits her time in residence between Atlanta and the Gambia, where she continues to study the origins of her cultural identity and indigenous traditions by tracing the Ring Shout.