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musing on a women's hand-printed batik headscarf (gélé) from a Nigerian wedding "uniform" object-based painting, 20 yards

@ Casa Artom in Venezia, Italia ~ by invitation LINK to more info

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1976 x 2003, 1976 x 1964, and 1964 x 1939 acrylic and oil on unstretched canvas, 46 x 46," on card table With these works, a comparison is made between painting on unstretched canvas and vinyl tablecloths. I am also thinking about plaid tablecloths in paintings of interiors by Edouard Vuillard. In addition to my interests in creating object-based painting and works that blur lines between painting and textile arts, my work as an artist is concerned with xenophilia with a goal of bridging divides across cultures.

This work explores mathematics and “stick multiplication,” specifically - a method that seems to come from China. Math should bring clarity to daily living to persons of any profession and all walks of life. All around I see people who are getting by with minimal confidence in their ability to use math effectively in life, from high school graduates to university faculty and staff. After exploring a few different ways of working with multiplication, I became engrossed with stick multiplication as a simple, straight-forward method that is highly visual. Stick multiplication is array-like and focuses on place values that are typically color-coded.

In a 2020 journal article Dr. Muhammad Nasiru Hassan, a senior lecturer (1) at Sokoto State University in Nigeria, reported that quasi-experimental (2) research with Primary 5 students (3) shows a significant positive outcome with learning multiplication by the stick method over the traditional method of multiplying place values by each other and adding the answers. This research also revealed that when students are taught multiplication through the stick method girls outperform boys. Footnotes 1) roughly equivalent to "associate professor"in US 2) non-randomized 3) equivalent of US 5th Grade example https://www.youtube.com/embed/gngvWShRgX4

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2023 Kansas City Flatfile + Digitalfile July 7 - September 23 H&R Block Artspace 12-5 W-Sat, Tues by appt Artists in Dialogue: Saturday, September 16, 3:30-5pm Closing Reception: Friday, September 22, 6-8pm

pictured: Motherlode bedroll sleeve and Lode en Route; the video work, Motherlode by the way is also on exhibit

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Regional Faculty Invitational Gonzaga University Urban Arts Center 125 S Stevens St, Spokane, WA 99201 February 3 - March 3 / hours: Fridays, 4-7pm, Saturdays, 10am-3pm First Friday closing reception March 3, 4:30-7pm ~ all are welcome

above:  Motherlode by Maria Ogedengbe

About half a year ago I encountered this cart in a somewhat broken down state. I repaired it and have been musing about it through drawing it.

In 2018 I became a mother to my husband’s daughter. She arrived on a direct flight from Lagos never having known another mother, she was wearing silver sneakers a couple sizes too small that day. In the time between then and now my days and years have been full of the joys and trials of family life. In our family, shopping for food and bedding usually falls to me and favorite menus involve rice and black-eyed peas which I tote home by the sackful.

I met my husband more than ten years ago on a first trip to Nigeria where I was studying textile arts. There, hand-dyed cloth is produced in outdoor workshops in lengths of 5-6 yards - enough for an outfit. Whether hand-dyed or factory-produced, Nigerians customarily take a length of cloth to a tailor to have it sewn into a made-to-measure ensemble. Occasionally you meet someone wearing an ensemble of tie and dye, perhaps in a “slipper” pattern - such as what you see in this quadruple pillowcase I made for the pillow-bedroll in this load.

In the parts of Nigeria I know you’d find a shekere in most homes. To make this percussion instrument you weave a net of beads, or maybe Job’s Tears, around a dry calabash (gourd) to create a percussion instrument that’s something like a large rattle. My husband has said that a home with a shekere is a happy home, and the shekere is an emblem of home and family - our lives together.

This work suggested its title, but when I looked to dictionary definitions I noticed an alternate spelling with a moving meaning, motherlode: a principal vein of silver or gold, a rich source. A family is toil, a family is a rich source of preciousness running deep.

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Whitworth University 2022 Faculty Biennial November 8, 2022-January 20, 2023 Bryan Oliver Gallery hours are M-F 10am-4:30pm & Saturdays 10am-2pm (closed Wednesday 12/21/2022 - Monday 1/2/2023) 300 W. Hawthorne Road, Spokane, WA 99251

on right: naranja canela, a photo frieze diptych, 17 x 84″ by Maria Ogedengbe alternate view

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r-r-ruban vivi installation Cube Gallery winter 2022-2023 Lied Art Center Whitworth University 300 W. Hawthorne Road Spokane, WA 99251

Spokane Public Radio Feb. 2, 2023: r-r-ruban vivi… LINK

Inspiration for this installation comes from holiday decorations I observed when studying textile arts in Nigeria. I earned my MFA in Painting from Yale and had been imagining an artist's residency in Africa. The connection I saw between painting and Africa was dyeing, and large painterly batiks from Nigeria drew me in. In Nigeria I saw how textiles are prized, and how self-presentation, often in elaborate dress, is important. You purchase a few yards of fabric - maybe a hand-printed batik - and bring it to a tailor who sews your outfit to measure. And I noticed, too, that fabric was Nigeria's answer to the strings of lights that outline shop windows in the U.S. during winter holidays. In December in Nigeria solid-color yardage in red, green, and white is twisted, cinched, and stretched to create festive holiday decor on building fronts. In January this is dismantled - the fabric's folded and put away for next year. For my installation, r-r-ruban vivi, I borrowed the idea of yardage from Nigerian holiday decor for my "material" and brought this into a fully 3D format where swathes of fabric swing through space like vibrant paintstrokes. The solid and striped lengths include satins, iridescent organza, and gold tissue lame in a color palette that's energizing and calming, too. Lamps illuminate the installation from about 7am-midnight and give a lantern-like effect when the sun goes down. I like to drive by as it's getting dark to enjoy how the view of r-r-ruban vivi changes as I move around it.

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Veronica veil (V. v.) acrylic on canvas, hardware 2022 Longview Art and Design Faculty exhibit, Spring 2022 currently on view in the gallery at the Cultural Arts Center Longview Community College, 500 SW Longview Rd, Lee's Summit, MO 64081 hours are 10am-1pm M,T, Th, Sat - through April 16

The theme of Veronica's veil is often seen in western art. My work often makes use of crossover between painting and textile arts with relation to my research in West African textiles. So here, in this work, is a very large portrait that is presented unstretched, like a textile.

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collage-drawings & paintings in the 2021 Metropolitan Community College-Kansas City Faculty Virtual Art Exhibition pictured: Wool Rainbow with Monarch, acrylic on mounted paper 30” round x 1.25” deep

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LARGE paintings on paper in 2021 Kansas City Flatfile at Artspace  43rd & Walnut Kansas City MO, 7/23-10/14/2021, W-Sat 12-5 • drawer 35 These large paintings on paper in limited palettes are being exhibited for the first time. One has been published as a two-page spread in the Yale Literary Magazine. All were painted from life on prepared paper and depict family members or a friend. Paints & ink on Arches hot press ~ With this exhibit sales are handled through the artist, Artspace is able to contact the artist on behalf of the patron.

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Copper Daybreak, aviary commission at Virginia Studio House in Kansas City, Missouri

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Autumn 2020: flowering beans and gourds atop the roof of Missouri GOURDen attract pollinators Support Missouri GOURDen, a community arts & gardening project at 48th & Troost in Kansas City MO. Garden with us or contribute to the virtual tip jar through paypal.me/studiomariaO or via Google Pay to studio.maria.O@gmail.com ~ thank you !   The “GOURDzebo” is located at 48th & Troost in Kansas City, Missouri. Looking for photos of Missouri GOURDen on social ?  #kcmoGOURDen Missouri GOURDen -  a.k.a. “the GOURDzebo” - is a project of the studio of artist Maria Ogedengbe.

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2020, a quiet Summer: Missouri GOURDen is situated in Kauffman Legacy Park, behind the Kauffman Community Gardens orchard stretches south to Brush Creek. Beyond a series of raised garden beds to the west are trails around a pond, pavilion, and the nature sanctuary overseen by the Missouri Department of Conservation’s Discovery Center staff. The GOURDen and the park are an interesting crossroads, people from different walks of life pass through every day. It seems the pandemic has coaxed everyone out of doors and into nature - the park is a lively place where people garden, walk dogs, jog, or stroll with a friend or family. For most the park is a place for leisure. Yet the reality is that in hard times its remote corners probably serve as home for some, at least during the balmy summer. Missouri GOURDen’s three wide, open doors welcome visitors from all directions, from all walks of life. It’s an open meeting place in the out-of-doors. Support Missouri GOURDen, a community arts & gardening project at 48th & Troost in Kansas City MO. Garden with us or contribute to the virtual tip jar through paypal.me/studiomariaO or via Google Pay to studio.maria.O@gmail.com ~ thank you !   The “GOURDzebo” is located at 48th & Troost in Kansas City, Missouri. Looking for photos of Missouri GOURDen on social ?  #kcmoGOURDen Missouri GOURDen -  a.k.a. “the GOURDzebo” - is a project of the studio of artist Maria Ogedengbe.

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Pillowcase Maquerade, damask dyed by the artist, yarn, lace, embroidery, appliqué

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detail view of Seventeen, by Mommy Blessing, 2020 vector drawing (first state), available as an archival pigment print on photo rag - edition of 10, 21"H X 28"W

Metropolitan Community College Art Faculty Exhibit 2020 September 4-18, 2020 Reception Friday, September 4, 2020 5:00 PM Central Time  Join Zoom Meeting https://mcckc.zoom.us/j/99393681211 Meeting ID: 993 9368 1211 One tap mobile +16465588656,,99393681211# US (New York) +13017158592,,99393681211# US (Germantown) Dial by your location        +1 646 558 8656 US (New York)        +1 301 715 8592 US (Germantown)        +1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)        +1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose)        +1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma)        +1 346 248 7799 US (Houston) Meeting ID: 993 9368 1211 Find your local number: https://mcckc.zoom.us/u/abinzDBo0t

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Support Missouri GOURDen, a community arts & gardening project at 48th & Troost in Kansas City MO. Garden with us or contribute to the virtual tip jar through paypal.me/studiomariaO or via Google Pay to studio.maria.O@gmail.com ~ thank you ! The “GOURDzebo” is located at 48th & Troost in Kansas City, Missouri. Looking for photos of Missouri GOURDen on social ? #kcmoGOURDen Missouri GOURDen is a project of the studio of artist Maria Ogedengbe.

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plein air paintings in the Brush Creek Art Walk Exhibit, through October 2019 at the Anita Gorman Discovery Center, 4750 Troost, Kansas City, MO 64110

View from Missouri GOURDen and View of Missouri GOURDen acrylic on paper, mounted on cradled panel, 32 x 32″

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pictured: the Missouri GOURDen “GOURDzebo” on September 6, 2019

CLICK HERE for a printable poster Missouri GOURDen is a community garden where we’re raising gourds up and over an artistic garden house with the goal of making shekere instruments from the gourds. All are welcome to visit and join in gardening. The project is partnered with Kansas City Community Gardens and an orchard planted by the Giving Grove is just behind the GOURDen.

Along with gourds, we’re raising other types of flowering vines, herbs, radishes, and a grassy plant that bears a naturally occurring bead that can be used, along with the dried gourds, for making shekeres. Missouri GOURDen is a project of the studio of Maria Ogedengbe.

Missouri GOURDen is sited at 48th & Troost by the Anita Gorman Discovery Center - a nature center offering free programming.

For more information: missouri.gourden@gmail.com, (347) 687-5247, missouri-gourden.tumblr.com The Missouri GOURDen project has received two grants from ArtsKC and additional support from many others - thank you, all !