Mango Husk Paper-Making Workshop with Ọmọlará Williams McCallister

Welcome to the Mango Husk Paper-Making Workshop with ! Join us at Green Space Miami for a hands-on experience in creating beautiful paper from mango husks. In this workshop, you will learn the art of recycling and upcycling while exploring your creativity. Ọmọlará Williams McCallister will guide you through the process, sharing expertise and passion for sustainable practices.

This is Part 1 of a 3-part mango workshop series that will culminate in the making of your very own Mango-made Artist Book. Join us for one or all workshops. It's up to you!

About Ọmọlará Williams McCallister in O's words:

I am a maker who collaborates with people and plants to create art objects, immersive installations, community groups and community resources. My artistic interventions facilitate the creation of infrastructure that supports people in my communities in cultivating cultures of collective power and care while navigating everyday violences of systemic oppression.

My practice is a vehicle for carrying forward the craft knowledge and traditions in my lineages while also stewarding the lands that I currently occupy. My material research revolves around materials, objects and techniques that have sociocultural significance to people in my mom’s Black southern lineages, my dad’s Yorùbá lineages and the lands that I occupy.I blend ancestral TEK(traditional ecological knowledge); with obsolete tech (hand looms and hand papermaking machines); with digital tech (procreate, digital cameras, audio recording). Ancestral TEK teaches me to collaborate with the land and my plant neighbors. Obsolete tech teaches me to collaborate with my body and my people neighbors to transform natural resources into meaningful materials. Digital technologies enable me to learn and collaborate across time and space; archive and create useful community resources.

About When Mangos Last in My Backyard Bloom'd:

is an immersive, multi-sensory exhibit inspired by artist Jayme Kaye Gershen’s acclaimed short film, —which premiered at the New Orleans Film Festival and screened at DOC NYC—the exhibit transforms the essence of mango season into an emotional reflection on community and climate.

Set during peak mango season, this one-of-a-kind installation blends sound, film, sculpture, taste, and storytelling into a vibrant homage to Miami’s cultural and agricultural heart: the mango. The title of the exhibit and poem within the work, was inspired by poet and educator Carmen Misé's poem of the same title.

This exhibition is made possible through generous support from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, Green Space Miami, Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs, Seasons Farm Fresh, Subtropic Film Festival, and is proud to be a 2024 Knight New Works.

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