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Material Prophecies: Craft as Divination🌀✨On view through August 1 @armoryarts Grateful to these artists for building futures in texture, sound, spirit, and form.@jackieamezquita @aprilbey_ @calethiadecontostudio @turboglitchy @nicanahuac @vanessalgerman @shifty_shellmound @lanitrock My first exhibition here. More to come. by @taylorpatrice

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✨Honored to be recognized for my work Right and Rituals: The Making of African American Debutante Culture ✨ Thank you American Association for State and Local History // Shout outs to @caaminla @lalinks1950 #americanassociationforstateandlocalhistory #debutante #blackbeauty #africanamericandebutante #curator #exhibition by @taylorpatrice

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It’s about to happen...my debut solo show ✨Opening May 26, "Rights and Rituals: The Making of African American Debutante Culture" investigates the origins of the social organizations and the ways they supported young Black women’s participation in vital, albeit sometimes understated, race work.Reserve your tickets today through our website @caaminla Image: McLain’s Photo Service. Warner R. Wright introducing his daughter, Brenda, at Cotillion at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, October 19, 1957. Courtesy the USC Digital Library, Library Exhibits Collection by @taylorpatrice

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Featured in @craftcouncil 💫On view through August 1 @armoryartsLink in bio. 🔗 by @taylorpatrice

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In the Pasadena Power Women issue by @pasadenamag In good company across disciplines, practices and ways of showing up in the world. The work continues. ✨💐 by @taylorpatrice

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beautiful film photos by @calethiadecontostudio at the opening of Material Prophecies: Craft as Divination 🌀 curated by @armoryarts Director of Exhibitions @taylorpatrice 🧡This Saturday 2.28 at 2p, Taylor will be guiding a walk through of the exhibition, which will be on view at The Armory Center for the Arts 2.20-8.1. *RSVP on their website to attend. by @taylorpatrice

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Material Prophecies: Craft as Divination opens 2.20-8.1 at @armoryarts 🌀 curated by @taylorpatrice 💐 i’m showing a new conception of 𝚎𝚊𝚛𝚝𝚑𝚍𝚊𝚗𝚌𝚎 as a generative, participatory, 3 channel immersive installation with a score by @soft___future featuring @davidmosessss @lanitrock @she_govinda @vontiveros___ @earth__poems @sheets0fsound @tommasocappellato & May Rose Smeback 🌸 Mixed by @davidmosessss & Mastered by @matthewdavidmcq ☀️ This clip features @summer.bowie & @buckleynow 🌊thank you to everyone who has inspired and contributed to this work coming to life! thank you Taylor for the invitation to participate ~ it’s an honor to share space alongside beautiful works from @jackieamezquita @aprilbey_ @calethiadecontostudio @turboglitchy @nicanahuac @vanessalgerman & @shifty_shellmound ~ Material Prophecies: Craft as Divination brings together eight artists who turn to craft to divine memory, enact ritual, and seek knowledge of the future. Working with earth, fiber, metal, cyanotype, terracotta, and film, they carry ways of understanding the world passed through generations, giving form to what is felt, inherited, and unseen. Through these practices, material becomes both medium and oracle, connecting with Spirit, place, and ancestral knowledge.Rooted in the San Gabriel Valley, where cycles of wildfire, floods, winds, and regrowth shape the landscape, the exhibition reflects on time as nonlinear and ever returning. The artist’s works echo these rhythms, suggesting that transformation is both inevitable and generative, and that materials remember across distance and lineage. by @taylorpatrice

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I’m really excited to participate in the @armoryarts “Material Prophecies: Craft as Divination” exhibition featuring works from Jackie Amézquita, April Bey, Calethia DeConto, Emmanuel Louisnord Desir, Joel Gaitan, Vanessa German, Sky Hopinka, and Lani TrockSpecial thanks to @taylorpatrice @aprilbey_ @jackieamezquita @shifty_shellmound @nicanahuac @lanitrock @vanessalgerman @calethiadecontostudio Join us for the opening this Thursday!#armoryarts #friezela #artweek #emmanuellouisnorddesir by @taylorpatrice

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Exhibition update 🔮✨Material Prophecies: Craft as DivinationOn view Feb 20 – Aug 1, 2026@armoryarts ・・・Jackie Amézquita, April Bey, Calethia DeConto, Emmanuel Louisnord Desir, Joel Gaitan, vanessa german, Sky Hopinka, and Lani Trock.@turboglitchy @aprilbey_ @jackieamezquita @shifty_shellmound @nicanahuac@lanitrock @vanessalgerman @calethiadecontostudio📸 Artworks in order of carousel:1. April Bey, ‘I KNOW ALL ABOUT WHAT YOU WANT TO KNOW ALL ABOUT,’ 20242. Emmanuel Louisnord Desir, ‘EARTH ANGEL,’ 20243. Jackie Amézquita, ‘navegando las veredas del despojo,’ 20244. Sky Hopinka, ‘Kicking the Clouds,’ 20215. Joel Gaitan, ‘Ella Me Devolvió Al Paraíso Terrenal,’ 2025 by @taylorpatrice

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Magic, Mystery & Legerdemain 🪄💜 a gorgeous new book on @fordjourstudio work that I’m proud to have written for.Check out his show Night Song on view @davidkordanskystudio through October 11 ・・・Shop their new publication highlighting the work of Derek Fordjour. ‘Magic, Mystery & Legerdemain,’ a new catalogue published by the gallery exploring Fordjour’s 2022 exhibition at their LA location, is available now for pre-order. Taking its title from the magician Black Herman’s 1938 autobiographical book, ‘Black Herman’s Secrets of Magic, Mystery and Legerdemain,’ Fordjour’s exhibition provided a multifaceted forum in which Fordjour explored magic as it relates to power, race, and a myriad of illusions throughout American history. The publication features two unique covers, performance documentation, texts by Uri McMillan and Taylor Bythewood-Porter, and a conversation between Fordjour and Numa Perrier, who co-wrote and directed the magic show that was a part of the 2022 exhibition.Photography: @elonschoenholz by @taylorpatrice

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As of lately…#virgoseason #curatedlife #bythewood by @taylorpatrice

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Looking forward to my upcoming talk with @robertpruitt on 9/13 at 3 pm @vielmetter His work has long inspired my thinking, and I can’t wait to share space and conversation with him.…Robert Pruitt, “Woman with Lizards,” 2025, Charcoal, Conté, pastel, coffee wash on paper, 84” x 60” [HxW], Photo Credit: Adam Reich, NY by @taylorpatrice

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