The pandemic interrupted the sweet partnership of working with Sana Musasama at Hunter College in NYC.
I have been working on a new series of girl/mothers that transition from the the first 276 completed at the beginning of the pandemic, March 2019.
Those 276 sculptures, with turbans, roughly 12″x7″x5″, were shown in part at the Apple Barn in October 2019 and again at ChaShaMaNorth, Pine Plains, NY, in April 2021. https://chibokproject.angelafremont.com/wp/page-13/
In August, I met with my friend and supporter, Professor Mojúbàolú Olúfúnké Okome of Brooklyn College who is the founder of the #BringBackOurGirls movement in New York City. With her guidance, and the support of the artist and activist Oluwaseyi (Shayee) Awoyomi I was introduced to the great Nigerian artist, Chief Nike Davies-Okundaye, founder of The Nike Art and Culture Foundation. This foundation works with women and girls in both Lagos and rural areas of Nigeria, and it has agreed to be my gateway for outreach. I now have the amazing opportunity to work with an experienced, country-based partner with existing infrastructure to implement my vision of providing therapeutic art activities to survivors of trauma in Nigeria. Pictured is Chief Nike with a drawing of the Chibok Project that she was gifted.
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And, since my last writing, The Chibok Project became a program of the non-profit Fractured Atlas. The Lee Anderson Memorial Foundation gave a generous grant of $5,000 in January 2022 to the Chibok Project through Fractured Atlas!! THANK YOU!