Ubuhle Women: Beadwork and the Art of Independence
*The event has already taken place on this date: Sun, 10/23/2022
buhle Women: Beadwork and the Art of Independence showcases a new form of bead art, the ndwango (“cloth”), developed by a community of women living and working together in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. The black fabric on which the Ubuhle women work is reminiscent of the Xhosa headscarves and skirts which many of them grew up wearing. By stretching this textile like a canvas, the artists transform the flat cloth into a contemporary art form with colored Czech glass beads. Ubuhle means “beauty” in the Xhosa and Zulu languages and it describes the shimmering quality of light on glass that for the Xhosa people has a particular spiritual significance.
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Using skills handed down through generations, and working in their own unique style “directly from the soul,” according to artist Ntombephi Ntobela, the women create abstract as well as figurative subjects for their ndwangos.
Ubuhle means “beauty” in the Xhosa and Zulu languages and it describes the shimmering quality of light on glass that for the Xhosa people has a particular spiritual significance. From a distance, each panel seems to be formed from a continuous surface, but as each tiny individual bead catches the light, the viewer becomes aware of the meticulous skill that went into each work and the scale of ambition: a single panel can take more than 10 months to complete.
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Memorial Art GalleryLocation:
500 University Avenue
Rochester, NY, 14607United States
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(585) 276-8900Contact name:
Memorial Art Gallery
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The event has already taken place on this date:
10/23/2022
Time:
Wednesday-Sunday, 11 am–5 pm
Thursdays until 9 pm
Price:
$20 General Admission
$18 Senior Citizens (ages 62+)
$9 College Students with ID
$9 Children Ages 6–18
Half-price admission on Thursdays
after 5 pm*
FREE: MAG members, children 5 and Under, NYS SNAP card holders plus 1 additional visitor**, University of Rochester students, faculty, and staff with current ID***, Nazareth College students, and North American Reciprocal Museum
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