Feeding the Exhibition
Presented as part of Memories of the Past That Hug Me in a Nest, please join us for a series of workshops with Tiago Almeida exploring the exhibition through conversation, making, and feeding.
Saturday, July 25, 2–4 PM
Feeding the Exhibition: Closing Celebration
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Centered around the practice of feeding, this gathering explores the possibility of aliveness within museum spaces and the ways objects, places, and communities remain in relationship long after they have been rendered static by institutional frameworks.
Drawing from Candomblé and his own artistic practice, Almeida will share traditions of offering, care, and reciprocity. Together, participants will learn about and take part in feeding elements within the exhibition, engaging works installed to honor, educate, and maintain relationships across time.
Workshop Information
All workshops are limited to 15 participants and are two hours in length. Registration is $25 per session. No one will be turned away for lack of funds; free participation is available upon request.
Artist Conversation: Tiago Almeida and Asher Aurelio Edelman
Artist Conversation: Tiago Almeida and Asher Aurelio Edelman
Sunday, July 19, 4:00–6:00 PM
Join artist Tiago Almeida for a conversation with Asher Aurelio Edelman, archival technician at the Museum of Indian Arts & Culture, exploring the preservation of cultural knowledge across generations and the complex histories of syncretic cultures. Edelman, who is from Santa Clara Pueblo and has Brazilian lineage, brings a unique perspective to the ways memory, identity, and cultural traditions are documented, protected, and sustained.
Together, Almeida and Edelman will discuss how knowledge is carried through archives, oral histories, ritual, material culture, and lived practice. Their conversation will explore the intersections of Indigenous and Afro-Brazilian traditions, examining how communities preserve cultural knowledge while continually adapting to changing social and historical conditions.
Grounded in the themes of Almeida’s exhibition, Memories of the Past That Hug Me in a Nest, and moderated by Curator Chiara Giovando, the discussion considers preservation not as the freezing of culture in time, but as an ongoing practice of care and relationship. Bringing together the perspectives of an artist and an archival practitioner, both of whom are active members of their respective spiritual communities, the conversation offers insight into the many ways cultural memory is created, protected, and shared.
Audience questions will follow the discussion.
Against Chaos
Presented as part of Memories of the Past That Hug Me in a Nest, please join us for a series of workshops with Tiago Almeida exploring the exhibition through conversation, making, and feeding.
Saturday, July 18, 2–4 PM
Against Chaos
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Contraegun, translating as “against chaos,” is a Brazilian Portuguese term for a braided straw band worn around the arm. In this workshop, participants will learn about the history and significance of this tradition while braiding their own contraegun. Together we will explore how forces of chaos are not simply something to resist, but something to honor, work with, and understand. Through conversation and making, Almeida will share perspectives from Candomblé on protection, balance, and the relationship between order and transformation.
All materials provided. Free participation is available upon request by emailing: info@icasantafe.org. Workshops are limited to 15 participants.
Beading for the Orixás
Presented as part of Memories of the Past That Hug Me in a Nest, please join us for a series of workshops with Tiago Almeida exploring the exhibition through conversation, making, and feeding.
Saturday, July 11, 2–4 PM
Beading for the Orixás
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A hands-on educational beading workshop with Tiago Almeida exploring the ways African diasporic knowledge has traveled throughout the regions now known as the Americas. As an initiate of Candomblé, Almeida’s knowledge is situated within the communities of Bahia, Brazil, and together participants will explore how these traditions, histories, and forms of knowledge appear across communities and even continents. Participants will learn about the colors, patterns, and strands of beads associated with different orixás, how these beads are worn, and their cultural significance.
All materials provided. Free participation is available upon request by emailing: info@icasantafe.org. Workshops are limited to 15 participants.