Haus of Sloth
Work With Me-
My research explores how Black women ceramicists use clay as a technology of memory, storytelling, and resistance. Grounded in Black feminist theory, I integrate archival methods, oral history, and material culture analysis to examine the gaps in how institutions document and interpret Black craft.
My work combines scholarly rigor with public-facing practice, including podcasting, digital curation, and accessible pedagogical models. Through interdisciplinary methods spanning African American Studies, craft studies, and public humanities, I aim to build a new, community-centered archive of Black women in ceramics while expanding the ways art history can be written, taught, and shared.
@urbnartbae for research and professional advice + development
@urbnartheaux for art lifestyle
Current Work: Digital Curation
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Work with Me + Sponsorship
Work with me for professional consultations and project-specific work in research and development at any stage. Additionally, program development and workshop planning around contemporary visual culture
Sponsor Me through product offerings, UGC collaborations, creator links, and more. Monetary support contributes to platform development and project needs such as travel, organization, and personal needs.
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Black Art Library
Under development, a digital platform of texts organized by category as an accessible way of creating working bibliographies that can be pulled from to study niche arts and specialities around contemporary Black art with a global perspective and intersectional focus that deepens and complicates identity politics in visual culture
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Black Art on View
This subscription plugs you into current exhibitions around Black contemporary art. Featuring Cities:
- NYC
- Miami
-Chicago
- San Francisco
- LA
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Office Hours
- Application development (job + academic)
- project development
- Housekeeping
- Writing support and editing
- Youth + college career advice
Work promoted in guides and workshops, coming soon!
Platforms
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Newest account but housing the projects: @urbnartheaux, @urbnartbae, @slothpot.
This is the LLC
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The OG account running the show, mostly of my fashion, chronically online humor, and friends I post publicly
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Black Art on View
Black Art Education in life
Art Events you should be attending
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Housing my research based project work here. Utilizing social media for marketing, outreach, and announcements.
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Ceramic studio practice inspired by my research work and development.
Projects
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Digital Archive + Oral History
Following my publication development, I would like to step into a digital archive project interviewing artists about their work and developed techniques.
This is active participation in fighting earasure and preserving the communities directly working within the intersection of Black Women and ceramics.
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Burnished Earth: The Black Women's Archive through Clay Body
Digital Archive project led by independent research. Research methods of pursuing exhibitions, catalogs, artists, and communities with active knowledge systems that are customary to a region.
Inquiry is directly interested in Black women ceramicists. Current Phase: Background and research method development
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Sunday Dinner
Sunday Dinner is a supper club by invitation that was thought of as a space for community building and creating a village. This deliberate practice stimulates the found family and belonging elements that digital platforms can’t provide and may contribute to emotional distance in spaces needing some love. Fill your heart and your tummy with food made from scratch.
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Blooming NeGrow
By name alone, you know that Blackness is front and center. This is a specialized project fulfilling my childhood dreams of being a florist.
By building a relationship with florists and floral industry spaces and experts, I will also include my studio ceramic practice into this presentation of my findings as a curatorial offering to Black Flora.
