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@shugi.e

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Interdisciplinary folk and conceptual artist
Honorary Auntie
Ancestor in training

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I’m so full from this weekend! Thank you to everybody who came to the opening of summer studios! to everyone that came through to helping hand, to my amazing mentor @nathaniel_donnett1 to everyone that continued to encourage me to push through, to @projectrowhouses for offering the space for me to create, to my amazing co-hort, my ancestors who stood by my side every moment…
Gladys Johnson
Lois Johnson
Irvin Johnson
Maggie Johnson
Raymond Lewis
Mary Lewis
Rudy Jacobs
Van Jacobs
Thank you from the bottom of my heart. 🕯️🌊💙💙💙 taken in Project Row Houses by @shugi.e

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2 months ago

"How Much Weight Can I Bear?" is an installation piece investigating the spirits relationship with the widening and decomposition of the physical form as well as wounds that never quite heal. I wanted to encapsulate the feeling of "heaviness" into this piece. I wanted the sculpture to look like it was weighing heavily on a small infrastructure to really exaggerate the feeling of bearing weight. Ironically though, the piece really isn't that heavy in weight loooool but wounds never are taken in Houston City College by @shugi.e

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15 days ago

taken in Houston City College by @shugi.e

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16 days ago

Showing old videos that I never posted on Instagram while I work on other stuff. (i actually enjoy posting on Tik Tok more tbh) This sculpture was actually from last fall semester. I've been revisiting soft sculpture works as reference for something new. by @shugi.e

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16 days ago

"By incorporating the Black femmes’ self-awareness of her own atemporality, beauty, and
power for herself as a lesson for her sisters, Black femme aesthetics provides a timeless
embodiment of a cryptic being/doing/knowing now, in the future, and in the past: one that is
pedagogical, essential and “before” all we understand about representation."
- Rashayla Marie Brown (@rmbstudios) from her excellent dissertation "Black Femme Aesthetics, Reparations, and the Ancestral (After)life of Images"

Summer has shown me that my practice is invested to using different mediums to translate Black femme expression. How it be? Who did it? How I be doin it? What little black baby is watching? taken in Project Row Houses by @shugi.e

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17 days ago

Anytime I does what I need to do, I think of you. taken in 3rd Ward, Houston, Texas by @shugi.e

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2 months ago

I’m tore up. Rest in power to an incredible standard of continuing Black folk art, storytelling, spiritualism, memory work, etc. I’m just finding out you passed. Your name will be spoken over long after I’m gone and then some. Love you Ms. Betye by @shugi.e

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2 months ago

I’m over the moon that I got to spend my summer deepening my relationship to my craft at @projectrowhouses Floyd Newsum Summer Studio Program!

Come thru the opening reception Saturday, Aug. 8th 4-6 pm to my body of work ‘Mama Jo’s Baby’
🌊🐚🌾🕯️ taken in Project Row Houses by @shugi.e

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2 months ago

very excited to be alive ! taken in Texas by @shugi.e

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3 months ago

Enter to win at: bit.ly/dmwma-raffle

We’re throwing a party and hosting a raffle to raise funds for Brandon, a Black trans community member.

@shugi.e is offering these amazing paintings to support this mutual aid request and I couldn't be more excited to win one!

This raffle closes on March 31st at 11:59pm CST!

Which one would you choose if you won? I'm all for the bottom right cuz they know what time it is 🔥

And don't forget about the rent party we have coming up this Saturday! You can get your donation based ticket by donating directly to Brandon at the door or by using the Posh link in the bio!

#htx #houstontx #rentparty #artistsupportartists #paintingart by @shugi.e

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7 months ago

When I think about the time we had last week at the Advanced Collage Workshop I’m still kicking my feet and squealing!! 😆🫣🤭

That you @zinefesthouston and @theorangeshow for having me and allowing me to share my knowledge and love for collage work. I’m so grateful to have gotten the chance to connect with so many wonderful spirits 😭🖤🖤

This kind of work always revitalizes me and reminds me why I LOVE doing what I do 🖤🖤🖤✨ taken in Orange Show Center for Visionary Art by @shugi.e

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a year ago

“When Granger arrived in Galveston, there still existed around 250,000 slaves and they were not all freed immediately, or even soon. It was not uncommon for slave owners (unwilling to give up free labor) to refuse to release their slaves until forced to, in person, by a representative of the government. For Confederate states like Texas, even before Juneteenth, there existed a desire to hold on to that system as long as they could. “-NPR (Walsh)

There are pockets in time where we feel safe to celebrate the blood sweat and tears of our ancestors. Times where we feel liberated and Free, and other times when we feel like the work is not done. The older I get the more I see Juneteenth as not only a holiday, but a portal opening. An opportunity for us to open a larger line of communication with our ancestors to strengthen our communities and deepen our sense of connectivity to our culture. When you inhibit a black body (esp if you be dark or queer or woman presenting) there will always be someone willing or wishing to create violence against you. You’ve got to be anyways. To be is your birthright. 🖤🖤 taken in Galveston, Texas by @shugi.e

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a year ago