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SUMMARY:Qualisha Wood's code_eden, guest curated by Leandra-Juliet Kel
 ley
DESCRIPTION:Qualisha Woodcode_edenguest curated by Leandra-Juliet Kell
 eyNovember 10, 2025 - January 10, 2026Curator lead talk with the artis
 t with reception to follow Saturday, November 15, 3:00 - 6:00 PM\nRSVP
 https://www.eventbrite.com/e/qualeasha-wood-code-eden-tickets-18203466
 88949?aff=oddtdtcreator\nMarketing blurb:In her textile practice, Wood
  brings together traditional craft techniques and contemporary technol
 ogy. Her own image acts as a point of departure for works that explore
  racial, sexual and gender identity as they relate to the Black femme 
 body. Woods’ tapestries combine cybernetic and analog processes; in 
 her work, a pixel is equivalent to a stitch, each stitch an analogy fo
 r the past, present and future of Black femmehood, both on- and off-li
 ne, pre- and post-internet.\nWhile Wood’s tapestries blend images fr
 om social media with religious, specifically Catholic, iconography, he
 r ‘tuftings’ represent cartoon-like figures that recall the racist
  caricatures widespread in popular family programmes of the early-mid-
 20th century and beyond. As well as marking a technical shift from the
  artist’s tapestry pieces, the tuftings have a distinctly different 
 visual style. In them, Wood adopts a naïve aesthetic that calls on th
 e nostalgia of cartoon animations and their association with racial st
 ereotyping to unpack notions of Black girlhood. Despite their formal s
 implicity, the tuftings reveal a lurking tension drawn from the artist
 ’s own experiences of consuming media rife with anti-Black prejudice
  throughout her life. Where the tapestries are absorbed in consumption
  and cyber culture, the tuftings speak to inherited trauma and necessa
 rily implicate accountability in the viewer.\n\nFor more information v
 isit http://phillytodo.com/events/qualisha-wood-s-code-eden-guest-cura
 ted-by-leandra-juliet-kelley
DTSTART:20251115T200000Z
DTEND:20251115T230000Z
CATEGORIES:curator, lead, talk, with, the, artist, reception, to, foll
 ow
LOCATION:Glassboro, NJ
WEBSITE:https://www.eventbrite.com/e/qualeasha-wood-code-eden-tickets-
 1820346688949?aff=oddtdtcreator
URL:https://www.eventbrite.com/e/qualeasha-wood-code-eden-tickets-1820
 346688949?aff=oddtdtcreator
CONTACT:8562564547
ORGANIZER:Mary Salvante
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