Transformative Arts

Wifredo Lam, Les Abalochas dansent pour Dhambala, dieu de l'unité, 1970

Happy Birthday to our Miguel Rosario! Thank you for all that you do for TA Encantada, especially the care you show our resident artists! And of course House dogs Horus and Nommo would be lost without you! Enjoy this solar return in the Land of the Coyotes 🐺🥳🎂🧿✨🎁♥️

Tending to our garden, no matter how small, we work to cultivate connection, care and community through art.

We are in Mexico caring for artists we invite to come rest with us. All the while continuing to maneuver outside the system and to pivot when necessary. With love, jill, and our little Black dogs, Horus and Nommo - the clapping dogs, rhythmic dog, harmonic dogs, grounding and lifting up the ancestors vibes ✊🏾🧿♥️

we are getting closer to the launch of our new Mexico project and as always I have been doing maternal care that I find most rewarding including reading an article submission by my oldest kid called Notes on Opacity. He is about to blow the roof off the albeit sometimes beautiful but completely fabricated environments of western man. We are doing what we can to transform our worlds and futures for the greater good. I know a change gonna come and I couldn't be prouder. 💣🔥⛈️🌈🦋

Mandy El-Sayegh, Net Grid

Mireille Delice, Ayida Wedo, c 2010. Happy Lunar New Year! 🐲🐉🎆🎇. 📷:

that's a wrap

Full circle. What began as a collaboration with my beloved mother after ten years of estrangement was the documentation and exhibition of Mae Engron. Engron's work is up again as we work to remove the last artworks and efforts from 410. It has been a journey. She left me too soon and in my grief I forged a path that honored her by supporting artists in communities. Artis healing. And the world needs that now more than ever. It reminds us of our compassion, power, rootedness to materiality and rapture in the immaterial and the unknown. It's necessary. Fight to keep it accessible, community-based, generative and responsive to our stories and legacies. It's your turn now to insist and hold space for everyone. I am giving myself to the winds of change and moonwalking outta LA to wondrous futures! 🌬️👩🏾‍🚀🌕🌙🌑🚀🇲🇽✊🏾🧿♥️

We are so excited to be in the flow of life's journey! For the closing of Transformative Arts Los Angeles tomorrow takes us on a 24 hour journey with For Baby's Baby Performance For My Father.

From Saturday at 3p to Sunday at 3p, Wedgeworth will recreate her father's studio where she will wear his clothes, read from his manuscripts "The Sibling Blues" and "Baby's Baby," write as a response to his works, listen to a 24h jazz playlist, read his books, and watch his favorite shows (westerns and judge shows). With the intention to liberate her father's writing from the suitcase where they lived and were discovered after his death, she will embody the writer he was while taking up the space he could not. We invite you to bear witness to how lives are lived and transformed, and ask you to participate in Wedgeworth's storytelling installation where she, the "fussy" daughter, makes amends with her "grumpy" father through his own place making and imaginings. You can watch from the storefront windows or engage the artist in her father's studio apartment recreated inside Transformative Arts on Saturday from 6-9p and Sunday between 12-3pm.

At Transformative Arts encourage collective understanding and transformation through visual language. Wedgeworth is a champion practitioner and we are honored to be guided by her performance to unpack and celebrate the past to move into our new spaces, places, shapes and world building activities.

This Saturday!! at 6p D. Sabela Grimes will perform Parable of Portals: Live Audio-Visual Activation as an invocation of Octavia Butler and all the ancestors to guide us through the portal(s). Come be anointed in movement, sanctified in knowledge and transformed through storytelling and visual language.