This exhibition is appointment only and will require a Covid waiver at the entrance. Appointments may be made at info@crenshawdairymart.com "The voices of all my mothers, conduits for the Spirits of the sea." - Cindy Bonaparte, Salt Water Voices: Listen Between the Trauma, 2021 The Crenshaw Dairy Mart is proud to announce the opening of Black Sanctity & Trust, a socially-engaged solo art exhibition featuring the work of healing practice artist, Cindy Bonaparte (she/her/hers), as part of her MFA in Social and Environmental Arts Practice thesis exhibition at Prescott College. This exhibition invites participants to engage in forms of currency exchange beyond and alternate to fiat money, examining currency exchange which passes through the hands as energy, care, and creation. Black Sanctity & Trust addresses the spiritual crisis in Black wellness, care, and mothering by sustaining indigenous-based ways of knowing, sensing, and feeling, through the voices of Black Midwives in Los Angeles. Indigenous-based epistemology is embedded in this project through practices and philosophies that survived modernity within the artist’s own lineage, conversations with Elders, and academic inquiry into both African and Mezoamerican medicines. By facilitating moments of respite, escape, and ways to stowaway within the vessels of European domination, how can we liberate art and healing through intentional social engagement? The process of reclaiming spiritual technologies to heal in a modern context begs for flexibility, grounding, co-imagining, and protection in environments hostile to care, healing, autonomy, and indigeneity. In the U.S. hospital and medical setting, reclaiming cultural medicine challenges ideas that traditional indigenous care practices are inferior to modern medicine, and that the way modern medicine is practiced and applied should remain unquestioned as the best and only option for all matters of birthing and health. ___ Cindy Bonaparte is a healing practice artist with an earth-based Afro-futurist aesthesis. Her work consists of sculpture, and medicine making. Nurtured by the unceded land of the Tongva people, she is a granddaughter of both Haitian, and Southern heritage. Her decolonial praxis is grounded in her doula and ancestral womb healing practices. She has a professional background in union organizing and an MFA candidate in Social and Environmental Arts Practice at Prescott College. Her emphasis is focused on epistemic disobedience in art & pedagogical praxis. ___ The Social and Environmental Arts MFA at Prescott College was founded by CDM Co-founder Patrisse Cullors where CDM Co-founders noé olivas and alexandre ali reza dorriz instruct courses alongside CDM Studios Family Jake Freilich as Program Coordinator and Associate Professor of the MFA in Social and Environmental Arts Practice, with CDM Studios Family Star Montana and CDM Family Maxwell Addae. ___ This exhibition will be on view in the Crenshaw Dairy Mart outdoors facade from November 1st - November 7th, 2021. For all appointments and inquiries, please email info@crenshawdairymart.com Just South of Manchester and off of Crenshaw stands tall a former dairy mart, home to an artist collective and art gallery dedicated to shifting the trauma-induced conditions of poverty and economic injustice, bridging cultural work and advocacy, and investigating ancestries through the lens of Inglewood and its community. What these black and transnational identities seek is an imagination of new collective memory through programming, events, and arts installations which cultivate and nurture communal arts and education, repatriating resources into Inglewood and combatting sports-stadium driven displacement and gentrification. The Crenshaw Dairy Mart emerges from an investment in abolition, modes of accessibility in art practice, and weaving community solidarity through new memories. ___ The Crenshaw Dairy Mart was founded by Patrisse Cullors, noé olivas, and alexandre ali reza dorriz