About Us: Olufunke Artist and Maker
Bead Market, Art Market, Your Market
Mami Olufunke Morrishow
I am priestess artist. Inspired by the focus of my
spirituality on the cosmology of the Seven African Powers and Ancestors
I render images in acrylic paint on canvas or paper. I make paintings that reflect strength,
structure and purpose.
ICONIC-GRAPHIC-SPIRITUAL
I create earrings that beautify on any occasion. Made from the beads of the African Trade, Czech Industries, Japan, India this jewelry is given to inspire your best.
Also available here are Orisha Icon figure made from wood, paper, and cloth, to be used as secular artwork decoration or to be placed on your Orisha Altar to mark space used on ritual ocassions.
Earrings
The earrings are made using beads of Africa, Europe, Asia to create designs that are colorful, vibrant and beautifying on any occasion.
Resume:
Mami Olufunke Morrishow
Focus: Rendering in acrylic paint art that expresses the Seven African Powers and Ancestors.
Exhibition Experience:
2024 Contemporary African Spirituality: Connections to New Jersey, Group Show, curated by Atim Annette Otom, SOPAC, February 8th – April 7th, 2024
2023 Cult Favorite Gallery, We Like It, Group Exhibition, Online https://www.CultFavoriteGallery.com
2023 Arts Gowanus and Fulton Art Fair Open Studios Group Exhibition, 197 Bond Street, Brooklyn NY
2023 Harlem Book Fair
2023 Harlem Grown; Creativity, Culture, Care Initiative, Sankofa Installation, Group Exhibition,
Black Power Emoji: Ibeji
2023 65th Annual Fulton Art Fair, Art on the Fence, Brooklyn, New York
2023 Dance Africa Bazaar: Brooklyn Academy of Music
2013 NCA Group Exhibit at AC-BAW Center for the Arts,
128 South Fourth Street, Mount Vernon, New York
2002Juried Show, The 44th Annual Fulton Art Fair, Brooklyn, New York
2002 One Woman Show, Longwood Art Gallery,
"New York City's High-Rise Apartments"
965 Longwood Avenue, Bronx, New York 10459
2000 Juried Show, The 42nd Annual Fulton Art Fair, Brooklyn, New York
2000 Group Show, AC-BAW Center for the Arts, "Alignment: Women of the Light"
128 South Fourth Street, Mount Vernon, New York
Related Exhibition Experience
1981-2017 Rendered and sold art items as a Street Vendor Houston, Texas; Savannah, Georgia; Harlem.
New York; rendered and sold art items as an exhibitor at the African Street Festival, Dance Africa Bazaar:
Brooklyn Academy of Music, African-American Festival in Westchester County, NY: Kensico Dam
Plaza in Valhalla, City University of New York Black History and Kwanzaa Program Bazaars at City College,
York College, Hostos College, Queens College, and many others;
Items rendered include Acrylic Painted Mermaid and Veve themes on Denim and Canvas,
Painted Plywood Cut Orisha Statues.
Education and Training
2011 Perscolas Institute for Technology, Bronx, New York
CompTIA A+ Certification Complete
2011 SUNY Bronx Educational Opportunity Center, Bronx, New York
Office Technology with Microsoft Certifications: Word and PowerPoint
1998 Bronx Council on the Arts Development Corporation, Bronx, New York
Fine Art Technical Services Training Program: Certified Art Handling
Professional
1996 Initiated into the Shrine of Yemoja/Olokun, Ilaju Cultural Group,
Bead Market * Art Market * Your Market
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