Works Progress Studio
Field Office Fellowship // Amoke Kubat
Amoke Kubat is Northside artist, writer, teacher and Spiritual Elder. She is the founder of YO MAMA: The Mothering Mother’s Institute. Amoke includes traditional woman’s work with art of all mediums, historical cultural legacies, and films to promote mother activism and raising consciousness for mothers with young children. In increasing a holistic health literacy, learning about social determinants that impact health, healthy women raise healthy children. YO MAMA empowers mothers through active art making that expresses our collective feminine power. Amoke’s first book, Missing Mama: A Trilogy of Loss, Sorrow and Healing will be available this summer.
YO MAMA: The Mothering Mother’s Institute: yomamamothering.com
Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired Chair
YO MAMA mothers will build a Sick and Tired of Being Sick And Tired Chair. (Fannie Lou Hammer, a black woman community activist coined this phrase. Ironically Ms. Hammer suffered a lot of health problems. A few were directly tied to racial injustices and health disparities. She was sterilized without her consent or knowledge and she was beaten for her Civil Rights work). Upon completion it will be placed in public spaces for people to sit and contemplate 3 questions written on a rock (to be sat next to the chair). I envision it by a bus stop, in a garden, and in a Tea Room
Wednesday, June 8th, 2011
FlatPak House, Walker Art Center
Field Office Fellowship is a project by Works Progress and Walker Art Center.
Photo by Zoe Prinds-Flash.
Field Office Fellowship // Amoke Kubat
Amoke Kubat is Northside artist, writer, teacher and Spiritual Elder. She is the founder of YO MAMA: The Mothering Mother’s Institute. Amoke includes traditional woman’s work with art of all mediums, historical cultural legacies, and films to promote mother activism and raising consciousness for mothers with young children. In increasing a holistic health literacy, learning about social determinants that impact health, healthy women raise healthy children. YO MAMA empowers mothers through active art making that expresses our collective feminine power. Amoke’s first book, Missing Mama: A Trilogy of Loss, Sorrow and Healing will be available this summer.
YO MAMA: The Mothering Mother’s Institute: yomamamothering.com
Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired Chair
YO MAMA mothers will build a Sick and Tired of Being Sick And Tired Chair. (Fannie Lou Hammer, a black woman community activist coined this phrase. Ironically Ms. Hammer suffered a lot of health problems. A few were directly tied to racial injustices and health disparities. She was sterilized without her consent or knowledge and she was beaten for her Civil Rights work). Upon completion it will be placed in public spaces for people to sit and contemplate 3 questions written on a rock (to be sat next to the chair). I envision it by a bus stop, in a garden, and in a Tea Room
Wednesday, June 8th, 2011
FlatPak House, Walker Art Center
Field Office Fellowship is a project by Works Progress and Walker Art Center.
Photo by Zoe Prinds-Flash.