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Bust of fallen foe sculpted in pure gold.
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Mark Anthony Thomas performs for students at the University of Georgia's Adinkra Hall in February 2005.
Cover art for Peggy Appiah's 1966 opus, Ananse the Spider. Illustration by Peggy Wilson
See also Nuts and Bolts, a folktale
SANKOF - is adinkra symbol from Ghana - it means go back to the root and heritage for wisdom. This poster is made by Maya, a Chinese worked as a volunteer in Ghana with us in Winneba Open Digital Village in Sep. 2009. She went to the rural village Jukwa where we were part of the celebration of the new chief installation. She printed out 20 3/5 ... Read Moreposters of the portrait of the people in the village and post them at places in the village as a way to show her appreciation to villagers' welcome to her as a new comer. This poster is one of them where I embraced a village woman who welcomed me in the celebration. The reason I dressed that way in my regalia is because I am installed as a Queen Mother of Denkyira Kingdom in Ghana Chieftaincy in Aug. 8. 2008 as the QM for development and to look out for the well being of its people.
Símbolo: En el mundo tiene que haber amor. El árbol representa que el mundo tiene que seguir creciendo, las estrellas son la vida y el Sol y la Luna significan que tu vida transcurre y cada vez eres más mayor.
Colegio Marista Ntra. Señora de la Salud (Algemesi, Valencia)
William Rhodes is an artist, intergenerational educator and co-founder of the 3.9 Art Collective, an association dedicated to rendering more visible the declining Black population in San Francisco. Rhodes’ four handmade quilts highlight the powerful legacy of community organizing and activism in Bayview-Hunters Point. Working in close partnership with members of the Southeast Health Center’s Community Advisory Board, Rhodes features images of community members, organizations, sites, and events that represent the neighborhood’s ongoing fight for safe and decent housing, environmental justice, health equity, and social justice.
This quilt highlights select community members, organizations, sites, and events that represent the ongoing fight for healthcare equity in Bayview-Hunters Point. Yellow signifies healing, optimism, and hope, while the center medallion—the West African Adinkra symbol “Ah-ko-ko non”—represents patience, protectiveness, and care.
Collection of the City and County of San Francisco
Photo Credit: Pernila Persson Photography
Images are for Press Purposes Only
These are Strange Days
Aburi Masks, Toy Story & Frosted Flakes
The artists of Aburi, Ghana are famed for their wood carvings and masks. Unfortunately for them, Aburi is too far from the main tourist attractions in Accra. I wish they'd promote themselves better, put logos or seals of authenticity on their work, get on the internet for example, but I guess I and others are lucky beneficaries of their marketing ineptitude. Oh. well...
The felicitously coloured blanket in the background (I have too many things on my wall and so this mask hasn't found a home yet) is called a Baba Blanket and is covered with Adinkra symbols
Símbolos (de izq. a dcha.): Esperanza, libertad, precaución, familia y cultura
Colegio Marista Liceo Castilla (Burgos)
A massive Adinkra demonstrates the complexity many supersymmetry equation sets can reach. Now that Gates and his team have figured out how to represent equations visually with complete fidelity, they're working on what Gates calls the "Reality DNA Project," and says it's a bit like the Human Genome Project. In the same way the Human Genome Project mapped our genome, if the supersymmetry theory is correct, Adinkra pictures could essentially provide us with the "genes for reality," giving us a map to the universe.
Podcast @ www.nyas.org/snc/podcasts.asp
Acknowledgments:
The graphical images of Adinkras were discovered by the interdisciplinary research effort of C.F. Doran, M.G. Faux, S.J. Gates, Jr., T Hubsch, K.M. Iga, G.D. Landweber, and R.L. Miller. This research was supported in part by the endowment of the John S. Toll Professorship, the University of Maryland Center for String & Particle Theory, the University of Washington Royalty Research Fund, National Science Foundation Grant PHY-0354404, and Department of Energy Grant DE-FG02-94ER-40854. Adinkras were drawn with the aid of the Adinkramat (c) 2008 by G. Landweber.
Added Note:
A popular-level discussion of Adinkras and how they appear in string theory can be found in Superstring Theory: The DNA of Reality (c) 2006 by The Teaching Company.
William Rhodes is an artist, intergenerational educator and co-founder of the 3.9 Art Collective, an association dedicated to rendering more visible the declining Black population in San Francisco. Rhodes’ four handmade quilts highlight the powerful legacy of community organizing and activism in Bayview-Hunters Point. Working in close partnership with members of the Southeast Health Center’s Community Advisory Board, Rhodes features images of community members, organizations, sites, and events that represent the neighborhood’s ongoing fight for safe and decent housing, environmental justice, health equity, and social justice.
This quilt highlights select community members, organizations and sites that represent the ongoing fight for environmental justice in Bayview-Hunters Point. Green signifies the earth, growth, and renewal, while the center medallion—the West African Adinkra symbol “Asase Ye Duru”—represents Mother Earth, divinity, and providence.
Collection of the City and County of San Francisco
Photo Credit: Pernila Persson Photography
Images are for Press Purposes Only
Acrylic and pencil on canvas, 2002
Kwesi Owusu-Ankomah
Ghanaian, (1956- )
Inspired by adinkra cloth produced by artists from his native Akan culture in Ghana.
Look carefully, there is a figure on the left.
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George Gadson 'The Bridge” monument, 2002, African-American Research Library and Cultural Center, Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
Gadson’s work is fashioned in the shape of a drum and topped with the universal African Adinkra symbol. Gadson’s monument tells a story of the struggles and successes of the African-American people in their quest for freedom. The drum design represents the instrument used in the African culture as a form of communication. The work incorporates the image of the Edmund Pettis Bridge in Selma, Alabama where Civil Rights Leader Martin Luther King Jr. led a series of marches that brought media attention to the violence and discrimination that barred blacks from the voting polls.
Incorporating the Library’s strategic plan and key issues – geography, technology, economic, educational and cultural elements -Gadson wove them into the design. A geographic bridge connects the historically black community to the newly revitalized downtown Fort Lauderdale, a technological bridge of access to the new computer-oriented 21st century, an economic bridge offering services for small community businesses, an educational bridge providing lifelong learning to people of all ages, and finally, there is a cultural bridge that celebrates art, dance, theatre and literature.
Completing the monument is the Adinkra symbol that is placed atop the drum. It is a symbol of the Ashanti people of county of Ghana representing humility, strength, wisdom and learning.
www.georgegadson.com/about/public_art_african_american_re...
Adinkra (ah-DEEN-krah) cloth is a hand-printed fabric made in Ghana. Developed by the Ashanti people, Adinkra cloths were traditionally made for royalty to wear at religious ceremonies. Through the years, people have also decorated the cloths to tell a story or to express their thoughts or feelings.
The symbol pictured above is the "Sankofa" translating to "return and get it". The symbol of importance of learning from the past.
Make your own at home: www.pbs.org/wonders/Kids/cloth/cloth.htm
Photo by Anthony Pellegrino
Símbolo: La diferencia entre: el amor y el odio, el bien y el mal, la paz y la guerra, el amigo y el enemigo, construir y destruir...
Colegio Marista Liceo Castilla (Burgos)
These are Strange Days
Aburi Masks, Toy Story & Frosted Flakes
The artists of Aburi, Ghana are famed for their wood carvings and masks. Unfortunately for them, Aburi is too far from the main tourist attractions in Accra. I wish they'd promote themselves better, put logos or seals of authenticity on their work, get on the internet for example, but I guess I and others are lucky beneficaries of their marketing ineptitude. Oh. well...
The felicitously coloured blanket in the background (I have too many things on my wall and so this mask hasn't found a home yet) is called a Baba Blanket and is covered with Adinkra symbols
colors represent:
black/absorbs negativity
blue/insight, ability
red/strength and power
green/abundance/growth
aqua/fluidity
yellow/creativity/optimism
brown/stability/focus
gold/prosperity
rust orange/clarity/energy
These are Strange Days
Aburi Masks, Toy Story & Frosted Flakes
The artists of Aburi, Ghana are famed for their wood carvings and masks. Unfortunately for them, Aburi is too far from the main tourist attractions in Accra. I wish they'd promote themselves better, put logos or seals of authenticity on their work, get on the internet for example, but I guess I and others are lucky beneficaries of their marketing ineptitude. Oh. well...
The felicitously coloured blanket in the background (I have too many things on my wall and so this mask hasn't found a home yet) is called a Baba Blanket and is covered with Adinkra symbols