One, Two, Three, Up the Ladder by Adama Delphine Fawundu

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JCAL 50th Anniversary Gala

By Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning

Jun 7, 2022 - Jun 20, 2022

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The Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning in Jamaica, Queens, New York is a performing and visual arts center that was founded in 1972 in an effort to revitalize the surrounding community and their regard for the art. Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning tyrelh@jcal.org

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  Adama Delphine Fawundu (b. 1971, Brooklyn, NY) is a photographer and visual artist born in Brooklyn of Mende and Bubi descent. Her distinct visual language centered around themes of decolonization, and ancestral memory, enrichens and expands the photographic canon. Fawundu co-published the critically acclaimed book, MFON: Women Photographers of the African Diaspora. For decades, she has exhibited both nationally and internationally and is a 2022 Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition finalist. Her awards include, New York Foundation for The Arts Photography Fellowship (2016) and the Rema Hort Mann Artist Grant (2018) amongst others. She was commissioned by the Park Avenue Armory to participate in the 100 Years|100 Women Project/The Women’s Suffrage NYC Centennial Consortium (2019-2021). Her works are in the permanent collections of the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY; Princeton University Museum, Princeton, NJ; Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA; The Petrucci Family Foundation of African American Art, Asbury, NJ; The Brooklyn Historical Society, Brooklyn, NY; Norton Museum of Art, Palm Springs, FL; The David C. Driskell Art Collection, College Park, MD; and number of private collections. She is an Assistant Professor of Visual Arts at Columbia University.

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  Year created: 2008 Medium: Archival pigment on cotton paper Dimensions: 20x22 * With frame
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