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Discover artist Zipporah Michel! Her work has been selected to be a part of an art collection at Sailboat Bend II for the Aya Arts Project. The Aya Arts Project is a permanent art installation curated by artist Niki Lopez. It is a Sailboat Bend II Community Arts Engagement & Acquisition Project brought to you by Niki Lopez of Niki Lopez Creative & What’s Your Elephant for the HACFL- Housing Authority of the City of Fort Lauderdale and Atlantic Pacific Companies. Sailboat Bend II is a new affordable housing building for seniors.
For more information about the art project and the next virtual chat, go to
https://whatsyourelephant.org/aya-arts-project/
Born in 1992, Zipporah Michel is a Haitian-American South Florida artist trained in graphic design, illustration, and fine arts. Growing up traveling to different countries, Michel became enraptured by the vibrant cultures that these civilizations had to offer authentically on-screen in storytelling and through her artwork in colorful illustrations in mixed media and paint.
Zipporah Michel
Atlantic Pacific Companies
What's Your Elephant
Join us Friday, September 18; 6-8 PM for the What’s Your Elephant: Safer at Home Artists Talk.
- Cindy K Shaw
- Allison Bolah
- Zipporah Michel
- Jose Silva
- Nikki Detourbutterfly Saraiva
- Moderated by Niki Lopez and Khaulah Naima Nuruddin
- Keachia M. Bowers, MSW of Movements for Change. A holistic practitioner of Transformative Healing
REGISTER FOR THE ZOOM:
http://bit.ly/WYE_artiststalk1ZOOM
Welcome to the annual ‘What’s Your Elephant’ art exhibition. Each year, artworks selected reflect an ‘elephant in the room’ topic. This year the goal is to address topics that relate to ‘at-risk’ demographics, people and issues that have been heightened due to the global pandemic.pandemic and shelter in place which leaves at-risk people vulnerable This pandemic has pushed everyone to ‘shelter in place’ with many safe spaces and resources being closed or having limited public access. Though there are various opinions about the pandemic, however, the impact is felt far and wide. Such as domestic violence incidents have gone up and home is not always a safe space for many people.
The What’s Your Elephant: Safer at Home 2020 annual exhibition & virtual chat aims to bring awareness to some of those topics.
This will also be streamed LIVE:
https://www.facebook.com/whatsyourelephant
This is 1 of 2 Artists Talks.
Second talk with be Friday, September 25; 6-8 PM
The What’s Your Elephant is a movement that uses the arts to create a safe space to address the unspoken. For more information about the exhibition:
https://whatsyourelephant.org/event/wye2020opening/
Zipporah Michel is a culturally conscious illustrator with a deep interest in ancient civilizations and enriched tribal histories. Here is one of many incredible works. .art.gallery
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“The Expressionist Painter, Alma Woodsey Thomas”
Mixed Media on Paper
11 inches x 14 inches
Zipporah Michel
2020
Born on September 22, 1891, Alma Woodsey Thomas was oldest among four children as her father was worked as a businessman and her mother worked as a dress designer. Thomas was described to be exceptionally creative as a child as she grew up in Columbus, Georgia—making countless works consisting of puppets, painted china, and sculptures that remained in the home she was born and raised. She excelled in math and science in school, learned to play the violin, but gained a deep interest in architecture. Thomas and her family then moved to Washington DC once racial violence began to escalate in Georgia.
The city offered more opportunities for African-Americans and Thomas sought to pursue her artistic agenda, but studying architecture as a woman grounded her chances at being a successful one. She studied early childhood education at Miner Normal School after graduating from Armstrong Technical High School for visual arts. The next few years were spent as a substitute teacher before becoming a fully licensed teacher working in Maryland and taught kindergarten in Delaware.
By the early 1920s, Thomas attended Howard College under the artistic tutelage of James V. Herring. Loïs Mailiu Jones, another professor and renowned artist, encouraged her to experiment with abstraction—a style that was new to the American public—and joined “The Little Paris Group” led by Jones. At Shaw Junior High School, Thomas continued teaching. She also founded a visual arts department with community projects for art appreciation. Resolute in teaching until her retirement in 1960, she became one of the first African American women to earn an art degree (also earning her Masters in Art Education at Columbia University).
Live with Niki Lopez, Doris Araujo, Marilyn Walter, Zipporah Michel, Liesa Cole, Carol-Anne McFarlane and Sophie Bonet!
