Please join us, July 23, 2011 at 6pm-7:30pm, as Sisters- Locked Artisans Collaborative has its Launching Reception at 1130 Adeline Street in West Oakland. We will introduce our Collaborative, followed by a powerful prayer and a toast, with special guests, Reverend Renee Williams, Vanessa Murphy a local Gospel Artist, Mona Sanders, (A Little Taste of Heaven) and family, friends and artisans. Light refreshments will be served. Beginning promptly at 6pm
This is an Adult only event. Thank You, hope to see you there.
Artisans Welcomed
Sculpture
The ART of Natural Hair African Venus” was created by the sculptor Charles Henri Joseph Cordier in bronze in 1851. The sculpture was created as a companion piece to an earlier work created by Charles Cordier entitled “Said Abdullah of the Mayac, Kingdom of the Darfur”. The model was a young African woman by the name of Seïd Enkess who was a former slave in France. Both busts became popular after France abolished slavery in 1848. Charles Cordier himself was sympathetic to the abolitionist movement and believed in the beauty and equality of all races.
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