crafts & drawings

collection of art objects, drawings, and small sculptures

dark purple doll with red hair wrap and batik print blue and white dress being held by a hand.

Doll created for Dominicans Love Haitians’ Black Doll Project founded by Clarivel Ruiz. Doll inspired by Firelei Báez’s paintings of Haitian princess.

Paper doll pages. Cover shows doll with pigtails and the dress pulled up to reveal the title "The Oldest Perversion" Additonal pages showing catherdrawal scrupture with hand reaching into cradle, next page showing "Tourist Discount Privileges"

“The Oldest Perversion” paper doll book about pedophilia, 2001. Exhibited in “it’s a small world” show curated by Cynara Mori in Sis Boom Bah! Gallery (Toronto) and Tokyo.

Drawing of Ndebele Sangoma doll, beaded cone shaped body, black fabric on face, red bead eyes, and braids

Ndebele Sangoma doll drawing. “To the Ndebele People, the Sangoma Doll is a diviner who claims contact with ancestral spirits. It is believed that she receives the will of the spirits. The Sangoma is referred to as the protector of society and her opinion and judgment are highly valued.” (Folk Arts Museum of Central Texas)

embroidery in ring of person wearing chest harness

embroidered portrait of person wearing a chest harness

drawing of necklace with small yellow beads, large interlocking blue fixture that looks like a bird head.

watercolor pencil and pen on paper

Multi-panel comic of Yellow #5 following Black kid and their awkward encounters. Colored pencil on paper

Yellow #5 excerpt, chronicles of a Black kid struggling with racial expectations.

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