Short Tour and Creating Wearable Art Workshop

Thank you so much for everyone who registered for our first workshop, Creating with Cowries: Wearable Art. There was an overwhelming response to the workshop and we sold out in less than 24 hours! Many of you reached out to find out if we would be doing another workshop like this and just this once we have opened another workshop for February 19. This will be the last cowrie shell workshop for February, so if you want to join us please register below to reserve your seat~

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On February 19th from 11 am – 1 pm, we are offering our registered workshop attendees an opportunity for a private tour of the exhibit followed by a workshop, facilitated by Executive Director, Billie Stultz, where we will create a piece of wearable art using cowrie shells, beads, and other materials. The tour of the exhibit will hopefully give our workshop attendees inspiration for their creation. We also hope to enlighten attendees with the history of these immensely popular adornments that were once currency and how they came to be globally associated with Africa and the diaspora, despite not being indigenous to the continent. Come join us to see the beautiful artwork of West & Central Africa created with cowrie shells and learn more about their economic, cultural, and sacred significance and importance.

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Registered workshop participants must meet at the front entrance of the main Savannah African Art Museum building promptly at 11 am to commence the tour; the workshop will take place immediately following on the second floor of the museum’s Upbeat Village Terracotta Gallery.

 

Please note that the workshop space is stair access only, no elevator or wheelchair access is available.

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