At the upcoming Slave Dwelling Project Conference, visual artist Arianne King Comer will create and coordinate exhibits that will capture the Project’s work through an array of visual artists. Photographic exhibits of preserved and extant slave dwellings will be featured as well as photos from our stays from state to state.
Arianne King Comer’s Bio
Arianne King Comer
Arianne King Comer, a BFA graduate of Howard University, has been an Artist in Residence in the state of South Carolina since 1995. She is a textile artist creating her work in paintings, wearable art, installation art, environmental art, home deco, as well as social justice.
In 1992, Arianne received the UN/USIS grant to study under the renowned Batik artist Nike Olyani Davis in Oshogbo Nigeria, where her passion for indigo manifested. She was given the Yoruba name of Osun Ronke.
She was owner of Ibile Indigo House on St Helena House ’98-04. In 2004, Arianne traveled to Istanbul, Turkey as a guest artist sponsored by her daughter, a designer/stylist, Nicole King Burroughs. Arianne created one of a kind jean for Mavi Jeans’s. In 2007, she had the opportunity to join The Charleston Rhizome Collective to conduct a textile workshop in batik and indigo at the World Social Forum in Nairobi, Kenya. 2006-7, Arianne was artist in Residence for North Charleston Cultural Affairs Office.
In 1999, she was featured in the PBS documentary, “Messengers of the Spirit,” and in 2003 was featured in an Indigo Art segment on HGTV’s “Country Style,” which is still in syndication. She is an active member of Alternate ROOTS, Charleston Rhizome and a designer for Seeking Indigo. Her work is in several traveling exhibitions nationally as well as statewide.
Arianne King Comer
In 2012, Arianne had two solo exhibitions: “My Spirit Speaks” at the Rosa Parks Museum in Montgomery, Alabama and “Voices from the Water” at Dalton Gallery in Rock Hill, SC.
In 2013, Arianne was featured in the Charleston Magazine’s “Giving Back to the Community” segment in the May issue. In the fall, Charleston’s MOJA Festival honored for her with an award for her service as an artist.
She is currently working on workshops planned in Port Antonio, Jamaica and a joint exhibition scheduled this fall at Charleston’s Waterfront Gallery.
Arianne is an art consultant, indigo and community arts advocate, lecturer, teacher, and textile artist.
Register for the Slave Dwelling Project Conference today by following this link!http://slavedwellingproject.org/slave-dwelling-conference/
I am going to do my best to be there. I am researching my family’s history and slave life here in Georgia and Virginia, so this will be a very educational and informative experience for me!
Sylvia, I hope to see you in Savannah.
I wish I could attend. Will there be any videos to watch?….lectures, etc. I will make sure I attend one soon. My family is from Marion, Macon, Schley (to name a few) counties in Georgia. My 4th grandfather and his brother, possibly their mom and, or dad was said to be owned by John & Sara Joiner of Georgia. This project is awesome. Thankful to DeWolfe Family and thier collegues. Awesome!
I shared this event with our family historian- Jason Joiner.
Brandy, It appears that you have deep roots in Georgia. Being that this is our first conference, there may not be any videos to watch. We will announce at the conference the city where the event will be held in 2015. You can then start to make you plans to join us there.
Spell bound and speechless, awesome, amazing, heart full, ancestral, loving, needed, embraced with so much joy that my heart is dancing. Thank you!!!! Look forward to this reaching around the world for all of us to experience.