Ama BE: NGO {Palm Oil}

Ama BE is WPA’s 2023 Artist-Organizer-in-Residence. Ama is continuing her research on the agricultural practices of first generation Africans living in the DC area. Throughout the summer, she hosted interviews with local African immigrants to collect their stories about food, farming, and medicine, and how they have adapted traditional sacred practices since immigrating to this region. She is then translating these stories into sculptural pieces that come to life in the gallery space and change throughout her time in residence.

Ama BE: Open House
Saturday, September 30, 2023 | 1-4pm

Ama BE: We (too) Grow On Water
Thursday, July 27, 2023 | 6–7pm