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@manmzelnica

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🇭🇹 Textile Artist
Roots without end
September 18th-November 25th @haiticulturalx
Homeplace
Oct 4th-Nov 27th @parentingforliberation

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#magicinourownways
#curlfest2017
#mommyandme
#naturalhair
#melaninpoppin
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#thatonedreadchick by @manmzelnica

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9 years ago

🔷NEW WORKSHOP ALERT!🔷

𝗦𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱, 𝗔𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗶𝘃𝗲, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗖𝘆𝗮𝗻𝗼𝘁𝘆𝗽𝗲 | 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗽 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗝𝗲𝗻𝗻𝗶𝗰𝗮 𝗗𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗲

Create your very own print featuring archival sound recordings from 1930s Haiti with “Rasin San Bout” exhibiting artist Jennica Drice (@manmzelnica)!

Artist Jennica Drice leads this hands-on session showing how sound can be made visible through cyanotype. Participants will create unique spectrogram images derived from Lomax's 1936-37 recordings from Haiti using the techniques Drice used to create her own piece for the exhibition, Legba Across.

🔷No prior experience needed | All materials provided | Registration includes a complimentary beverage & light refreshments.

🎟️Save the date and stay tuned to HCX socials for the ticket link!

📅 Sunday, November 8, 2026
🕒 3–5pm
📍Haiti Cultural Exchange
35 Lafayette Ave. Brooklyn, NY

#HCX #HCX35Lafayette #HaitiCulturalX #HaitianCulture #Brooklyn #BrooklynWorkshop #VizyonAtistik #ThingstoDoBrooklyn #FortGreene by @manmzelnica

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3 days ago

The Observer is in Los Angeles. 💙

I’m honored to have The Observer included in @parentingforliberation’s 10-year anniversary exhibition, HOMEPLACE: Home as a Site of Love & Resistance for Black Families. A celebration of the beauty, complexity, and possibility of Black family life.

The Observer is an archive of love and inheritance held within a home stretched between generations and across water.

On view in HOMEPLACE
October 4 – November 27, 2026
offTOP Design, Los Angeles

Celebrating @parentingforliberation and a decade of work uplifting Black family life rooted in joy, care, and liberation. 💙 by @manmzelnica

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14 days ago

Come to MoCADA from October 9th to 11th and discover Jennica Drice @manmzelnica latest creation answering our theme this year “Lo Sakré”.
“I work in blue. Indigo, cyanotype, denim, cotton. Blue is both language and landscape to me. It holds mourning and freedom, ceremony and survival. Across Haitian Vodou shrines, Muslim tiles, and Catholic robes, blue is often understood as a sacred color, one that summons and protects whatever realm holds your belief.” the Haitian textile artist shares.
It came as an evidence to invite her to our 3rd edition this year and we’re thrilled to welcome her work alongside 3 other artists of the global creole diaspora.

About Kréol Fest:
This festival is a celebration of Creole cultures through music, dance, visual arts, literature, fashion, and food during international Creole Heritage Month.
Born from a desire to educate and connect, it showcases the richness and diversity of Creole heritage on a global scale.
For its 3rd edition, the program will consist of an opening ceremony with a jam session, live performances, a market place, conferences, workshops and a closing dj set.
A free program, for all generations.

Thanks to our partners and sponsors @mocada_museum @haiticulturalx @bkartscouncil @oifrancophonie

#KreolFest
#KreolCulture
#CreoleHeritage
#CaribbeanCulture
#NYCEvents taken in New York, New York by @manmzelnica

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16 days ago

2026, with @manmzelnica at her studio in Governor's Island this past summer. Projections created by her. Honestly I had been pushing to collaborate with more of my peers this year and she finally hit me with this wonderful work.tjya aligned with her practice. by @manmzelnica

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19 days ago

Somewhere in between.

August 2026

📸 @haitianrich taken in Governors Island by @manmzelnica

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Feeling blue? 🩵💙🩵 Local textile artist Jennica Drice (@manmzelnica) brings us: A Language of Blue, a cyanotype workshop! This hands-on experience will explore how sunlight, objects, and photographs can become a visual language.

Learn the fundamentals of this historic photographic process while experimenting with photograms, botanicals, textiles, found objects, and photographic imagery to create your own distinctive blue prints. Designed for artists, makers, and curious beginners, the workshop encourages experimentation with composition, layering, texture, and exposure while thinking about the stories objects and images can hold.

🩵 You'll leave with a collection of original cyanotype prints and the foundational knowledge to continue exploring the process on your own.

💙 No previous experience is necessary, and all materials will be provided.

🩵 Sign up on our website or at the link in bio! taken in Brooklyn ARTery by @manmzelnica

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2 months ago

Come spend an afternoon with me on Governors Island.
We'll explore indigo, talk about our relationship to blue, and dye cloth together.

No experience needed.

Sunday, July 26 · 2–4 PM
AnkhLave
Colonel's Row, House 408B
Governors Island by @manmzelnica

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3 months ago

Congrats to our incoming cohort of AnkhLave Artists in Residence here on Governors Island until September!

Artists include:

Yasmeen Abdallah - @86cherrycherry
Edgie Amisal - @edgyedgie
Savannah Bowman - @savannahebowman
Jason-Earl Jackson (TEDF) - @tedf__
Akiko Yamamoto - @awekiko
Jennica Drice - @manmzelnica taken in Governors Island by @manmzelnica

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3 months ago

Just in the Knick of time. #alainandrephotography #haiticulturalexchange #bam #mocada #knicks by @manmzelnica

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4 months ago

Four artist friends come together to discuss the labor behind creating art and the artists featured in What Paper Remembers: Marks, Memory and Labor.

This exhibition closes this Sunday June 7. Join us @haiticulturalx for an afternoon collage workshop by featured artist @izi__dor, followed by a closing reception. See you all there!
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In video:

Vizyon Atistik Inaugural Curatorial Fellow
Yvena Despagne @mynameisyvena @artxayiti
Jennica Drice @manmzelnica
Tania L. Balan Gaubert @tanialaure
Chyna Tenè @chynatene taken in Haiti Cultural Exchange by @manmzelnica

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4 months ago

Unbecoming, cyanotype on watercolor paper
On view til June 7 | Closing reception 4 to 7pm
In "What Paper Remembers: Marks, Memory and Labor" @haiticulturalx

Gallery Hours: Thursday through Sunday, 1 to 6pm by @manmzelnica

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5 months ago