Tuesday, April 24, 2012

COLLEGE ARTS ASSOCIATION 2013 CONFERENCE IN NYC. CALL FOR PAPERS BY SESSION CHAIR ARTIST XENOBIA BAILEY

Xenobia Bailey: Artist, Cultural-Activist, is inviting proposals of papers to present at a session she is chairing at the 101st College Arts Association Conference, which takes place Feb 13-16, 2013, in New York City titled.

FUNTIONING WITH NOTHING BUT THE FUNK: BLACK ART AND DESIGN, THE FINAL FRONTIER IN RECONSTRUCTION

Xenobia Bailey, independent artist, xenba@yahoo.com

During the Atlantic slave trade, North America procured a labor force of approximately 3,000,000 enslaved Africans, whose traditional skills, cultural lifestyles, and vernacular art was suppressed, for the development of the industrial economy of North America.

Through memory, these suppressed arts, and the spirit of antiquity, emerges through contemporary homemakers, artists, and musicians in African American communities...along with 400 years of post-traumatic stress disorders, all brilliantly articulated in Funk Music.

There is an urgent need for research and development of the theory and properties of the aesthetic of  Funk, for redevelopment of distressed industrial towns, that can blossom into industrious communities. The practice and philosophy of Funk in urban planning, can rejuvenate urban ruins and decay into a model city.

Seeking papers on the history of the aesthetic of Funk, Black Reconstruction of the 1860s, and/or the black migration north. Explain how the aesthetic of Funk is a catalyst for engineer, architect, design and studios, innovative trades and craft workshops, to revitalize the humanities in inner cities, through product designs, packaged goods, services, advertisement, art education, and art therapy.

| Proposals | College Art Association | CAA | Advancing the history, interpretation, and. www.collegeart.org Founded in 1911, the College Art Association Promotes excellence in scholarship and teaching in the history and criticism of the visual arts and in creativity and technical skill in the teaching and practices of art. And much, much more.http://www.collegeart.org/proposals/

XENOBIA BAILEY'S WESTERN MEDICINE HAT


THIS MEDICINE HAT IS MADE FROM (DARK YARN) BUFFALO YARN FROM A RANCH IN TEXAS AND YARN FROM THE FIRST SHEARING OF A BABY LAMB (BROWN YARN) FROM A RANCH IN UPSTATE NEW YORK.

THE FEATHER IN THE HAT, IS A OWLS FEATHER, MY NIECE FOUND THIS FEATHER IN A FOREST IN SEATTLE, AT THE FOOT OF A TREE THAT HAD A NEST WITH A MOMMA OWL AND HER TWO BABY OWLS IN IT... MY NIECE FINDS ALL OF MY FEATHER WHEN SHE TAKES HER MEDICINE WALKS IN NATURE.

THESE ARE ALL DIFFERENT VIEWS OF THE SAME MEDICINE HAT.

THANKS FOR CHECKING OUT MY BLOG... I PLAN TO UPDATE MORE OFTEN.... HAVE A BLESSED DAY!

Monday, April 23, 2012


I JUST FINISHED THIS QUEEN MOTHA CROCHET CROWN.... I'M EXPANDING ON MY THE FUNKY-FLY MATURE WOMANS SILHOUETTE FOR MY FALL & WINTER 2012 COLLECTION...


THESE ARE ALL THE SAME CROCHET CROWN, PHOTOGRAPHED IN DIFFERENT LIGHTING TO SHOW THE SCULPTURE OF THE CROWN.

THIS CROWN IS FOR SELL, IT WILL BE IN MY ETSY STORE VERY SOON....

THANKS FOR CHECKING IT OUT.

Tuesday, April 10, 2012

FUNKY-FLY URBAN BOHEMIAN CROCHET CROWNS FOR MEN


THIS CROWN HAS ALL READY SOLD... BUT... THIS STYLE CAN BE MADE TO ORDER ON xenba.etsy.com

NEW CROCHET CREATIONS, ORIGINAL DESIGN, READY TO ORDER AT xenba.etsy.com