Dance in America/ Folk Ritual 29 1/2 x 22 1/4 inches — Brandywine Workshop and Archives

— Brandywine Workshop and Archives records

This "shield" series is the exploration of the figure/figures in water

middle and background—know of the inevitable

It may also be understood as the fulcrum from which we can transport or move forward that which is important to the betterment of humankind

Dance in America/ Folk Ritual 29 1/2 x 22 1/4 inches — Brandywine Workshop and ArchivesFrom the Artist My earliest prints at Brandywine [Workshop and Archives, Philadelphia, in 1985] related to festivities such as Carnival (Brazil), Mardis Gras (New Orleans), Jonkonnu (Jamaica), and other Caribbean and American African based festivals, with their spectacular imagery and costumes. As in such festivals, my earlier prints were tinged with Eurocentric pageantry, costumes, and religions, although African ancestral imagery predominated. The