The Fellowship Hall
06/12/2024
About This Salon
Salon 3: The Fellowship Hall June 12, 2024 6:30-8 PM Logan Square Creative Space 3060 W. Armitage Ave (Storefront) Chicago, IL 60647
Jordan Brown and Kezia Waters present: The Fellowship Hall
Join artists Jordan Brown and Kezia Waters for “The Fellowship Hall”, an evening of myth, memory, and queer Black community inspired by the work of Zora Neale Hurston. Together, we will imagine the past-present-future of the Black Church and its relationship to Black queerness. Using the tools of oral transmission and storytelling, we will generate a collaborative folklore about the Black Church, guided by Zora Neale Hurston’s research of the Black South. Participants will leave with an introductory understanding of mythmaking and folklore as liberatory technologies that can bear witness to re-imagined, empowered timelines.
Please arrive in your Sunday Best (whatever that means to you) and with a small offering to our collective ancestor Zora Neale Hurston. This can be a small gift, thoughtful words, or a creative tribute.
About the artists Jordan Brown is a visual artist and writer based in Chicago, IL. His interdisciplinary practice in sculpture, installation, textile, video, and collage assembles personal mythologies from old clothing, text, and found objects. Born and raised in the DC-metropolitan area, he holds an MFA in Sculpture from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Kezia is a multidisciplinary Griot and Director. I think of my work as trying to find that which is holy, whole, holistic and/or holds within Black performance functionality. I do this aesthetically through spiritual surrealism and traditional folkloric techniques and have created/ fostered techniques based on mythological archetypes, African American Southern Rituals, Underground Queer performance culture and Visual Conjurin’.