Date: Saturday September 18th, 12pm – 5pm & Sunday September 19th, 12pm – 5pm
Cost: Free
Event Description:
Please join us in the back garden for art.
Saturday & Sunday we have a sculpture piece entitled “Opportunity, or lack thereof.” on display.
Sunday we have the Art Walk Kingston Mural Project mural also on display. To participate in it’s creation, visit the Village Grocery/Kingston Standard parking lot on Saturday.
Due to COVID our inside programming is still on hold, but please visit our events page for all our upcoming virtual events in 2021.
Dates: June 11th – June 25th, 2021
Location: idea garden main window
Event Description:
Maizy Milliken’s art is a part of the art thesis projects of students enrolled in the Senior Art Seminar course at Kingston High School. These seniors are graduating with a concentration in the visual arts. Projects were self-defined, reflecting the varied interests and voices of the young artists that conceived of them. Working with a mentor teacher, students were responsible for the entire process of researching, developing, executing, and curating their work. As an added challenge, a majority of these seniors were working remotely this year, turning their bedrooms into their art studios, and depending on video conferencing for support. They are applauded for their achievement despite the obstacles!
You can check out all of the artists here.
Dates: July 1st – July 31st 2021
Location: idea garden main window.
Description:
Learning new ways and skills to make art with and teaching those ways and skills was not an easy thing in the 2020-21 pandemic school year. First, we all had to learn how to learn and how to teach in this new remote way…we had a bit of practice in spring 2020 but this time around we were all determined to be better at it. We distributed and delivered art supplies. Using the document camera, recording demonstrations and lessons, asking students to hold up their art to the computer screen camera to share their progress throughout lessons, and managing to have class critiques to give each other feedback, some students returned splitting classes into two hybrid parts- somehow, it all happened.
Our student artists were resourceful, hardworking, and fearless despite the many challenges.
Date and Time: Sunday March 28th , 3pm
Location: Virtual. Please register here on Eventbrite to receive the Zoom link.
Cost: By Donation
Event Description:
Lisa B Kelley performs/reads Perla’s Daughter- IONE reads from her great grandmother, BIO Awardee Frances Anne Rollin’s The Life and Times of Martin Delaney as well as from her biographical memoirs Pride of Family and Pride’s Daughter.
Includes discussion and self interviews.
Part of Ione’s 26th Annual Dream Festival & Women’s History Month Kingston (whmk.org for the full list of events).
Date and Time: Thursday March 25th , 3pm
Location: Here is an archived version.
Cost: By Donation
Event Description:
The Idea Garden and Ione’s 26th Annual Dream Festival present Priestess Round Table, A virtual discussion and Q & A moderated by Artist and Advisor Sadee Brathwaite, featuring IONE, Shirley Parker-Benjamin, Toni Thomas and Li Harris, women artists and healers who are Minister/Priestesses of the Ministry of Maåt. The discussion will center on personal creative and healing aspects, the influence of African heritage on art and life-how living a life of authenticity can be a revolutionary act, and art as healing and healing as art. The Ministry of Maåt is an international spiritual and educational organization nurturing the ideal of a harmonious and balanced world community. Featured Round Table guests are noted Black artists, healers, writers, and community organizers.
Part of Ione’s 26th Annual Dream Festival & Women’s History Month Kingston (whmk.org for the full list of events).
Date and Time: Saturday, February 6th , 7pm
Location: on Instagram @theideagarden
Cost: Free
Event Description:
Sadee Brathwaite is taking over our Instagram feed to share her latest imagery as the inaugural artist-in-residence at the idea garden. For Sadee, the pieces are a personal exploration of what it means to arrive at a new location, a new destination, a new state of being, a new awareness. Referencing the idea of coming into deeper realizations personally and historically, and examining Brathwaite’s own relationship to being a black, female, Caribbean born immigrant, the work touches upon the themes of colonialism, immigration, home, community and spirituality. Please stop by online and learn more about her creative process.
Please check out Sadee’s art and other events here.
Date and Time: Thursday, February 25th , 7pm
Archived Event: video on instagram
Location: on Instagram @theideagarden
Cost: Free
Event Description:
Please join Sadee Brathwaite, an ordained Minister/Priestess of Maåt, as she helps you move and shift your energy and teaches you how to radiate. Sadee provides guidance, support, and motivation, helping people to heal and grow in life, in spirituality and in creativity. Sadee will be leading a 30 minute guided Affirmation Session to provide support, strength and courage for anyone who needs assistance going through a life change. Utilizing mindfulness practices and breathing exercises participants will work with select affirmations that are helpful for grounding, releasing fear, and opening to change.
Please check out Sadee’s art and other events here.
Due to COVID our in person programming is still on hold, but please visit our events page for all our upcoming virtual events in 2021.
Arrivals, a solo show by Artist & Advisor Sadee Brathwaite features new work created over the course of her three month residency at the idea garden. The pieces are a personal exploration of what it means to arrive at a new location, a new destination, a new state of being, a new awareness. Referencing the idea of coming into deeper realizations personally and historically, and examining Brathwaite’s own relationship to being a black, female, Caribbean born immigrant, the work touches upon the themes of colonialism, immigration, home, community and spirituality.
Only seeing a blank space above…having other trouble with the 3D viewer? You can view a lower tech version of Sadee’s exhibition here.
Below is the latest information on all Sadee’s events.
Event: Opening Night Instagram Live Takeover (@theideagarden)
Date: Saturday, February 6th, 7pm
Cost: Free
Description: Join Sadee as she takes over the ideagarden instagram feed (@theideagarden) and shares her new imagery and the creative process behind it.
Event: 30 Minute Affirmation Session on Change facilitated by Sadeen (on Instagram @theideagarden)
Date: Thursday, February 25th, 7pm
Cost: Free
Description: Sadee will be leading a 30 minute guided Affirmation Session to provide support, strength and courage for anyone who needs assistance going through a life change.
Event: Priestess Round Table, an online discussion Q&A
Date: Thursday, March 25th, 3pm
Cost: Free
Description: The discussion will center on personal creative and healing aspects, the influence of African heritage on art and life-how living a life of authenticity can be a revolutionary act, and art as healing and healing as art.
Sadee is our inaugural artist-in-residence and Arrivals is a featured exhibit for Black History Month Kingston and Women’s History Month Kingston. All art in the show is available for purchase, with all proceeds going directly to the artist (as always, the idea garden does not charge artists any fees to show their work). We were thrilled to provide space for the residency and if you feel called to do so, a gift to the artist can be made through Venmo @Sadee-Brathwaite.