TSU Art Department
Elise Kendrick and Jeannette Elhers
Sunday Morning Salon
Linocut on birch panels
18” x 18”
Jeannette Elhers (above)
We’re Magic. We’re Real
(These Walls), 2021- ongoing
Synthetic hair
November 16 2022
Live long durational performance & braiding circle. Presented in the United States for the first time, this ongoing series of work makes use of hair as an important marker of identity across communities of African descent, as a simple but powerful gesture. These braids are from the live performance and installation on November 16, 2022, at Cravath Hall first floor foyer, Fisk University, Nashville, Tennessee.
Stylists: Keva Anderson, Keyerra Allen. Fabricator: Walter Lewis, The Nashville community. Host: EADJ/ Maria Magdalena Campos Pons, Vanderbilt University / Fisk University. Producers: Nisi Daly, Lakesha Moore. Curator: Selene Wendt
The performance was first commissioned by Mads Norgaard in 2021 in Copenhagen, Denmark
Elise Kendrick and Jeannette Elhers
Sunday Morning Salon
Linocut on birch panels
18” x 18”
Jeannette Elhers (above)
We’re Magic. We’re Real
(These Walls), 2021- ongoing
Synthetic hair
November 16 2022
Live long durational performance & braiding circle. Presented in the United States for the first time, this ongoing series of work makes use of hair as an important marker of identity across communities of African descent, as a simple but powerful gesture. These braids are from the live performance and installation on November 16, 2022, at Cravath Hall first floor foyer, Fisk University, Nashville, Tennessee.
Stylists: Keva Anderson, Keyerra Allen. Fabricator: Walter Lewis, The Nashville community. Host: EADJ/ Maria Magdalena Campos Pons, Vanderbilt University / Fisk University. Producers: Nisi Daly, Lakesha Moore. Curator: Selene Wendt
The performance was first commissioned by Mads Norgaard in 2021 in Copenhagen, Denmark