

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Sculpture in the Direct Method & Maryangela Sanchez Rocca Preview Party
- **Event Start and End Date**: Fri, 15 May, 2026 at 06:00 pm – Fri, 15 May, 2026 at 08:00 pm (-04:00)
- **Event Description**: Sculpture in the Direct Method presents a dynamic conversation between generations of Black artists, exploring abstraction, representation, and political engagement in modern and contemporary practice. Featuring Isaac Duncan III, Ajene Cetawayo Williams, Richard Hunt, and Albert LaVergne, the exhibition highlights how material, form, and concept intersect to reflect both personal and collective histories.

The works on view range from bold abstraction to nuanced representation, moving between politically engaged statements and more meditative explorations of gesture and form. Across sculpture and painting, the exhibition demonstrates the breadth and complexity of Black artistic expression.

By bringing together artists from two generations, the exhibition invites consideration of how ideas, techniques, and perspectives evolve while remaining grounded in cultural experience and artistic inquiry. Throughout, material and process serve as key points of connection, shaping how artists engage identity, history, and culture.

The next Project Space exhibition features designer and artist Maryangela Sanchez Rocca, whose work spans furniture, sculpture, and domestic objects. Sanchez Rocca’s practice emphasizes materials often overlooked and systems of making rooted in care, ritual, and collective labor.

For this exhibition, Sanchez Rocca focuses on ixtle (EESH-tleh), a fiber extracted from the lechuguilla plant, native to northern Mexico. Historically used for brushes, ropes, sacks, and baskets, ixtle is closely tied to agricultural labor, land stewardship, and resistance within ejido farming communities. Drawing from knowledge shared by farmworkers in Coahuila, Mexico, Sanchez Rocca traces the material’s significance across Indigenous cultivation practices, colonial economies, and contemporary labor systems.

Through sculptural furniture, screens, and immersive installations made from raw ixtle and Douglas fir, Sanchez Rocca transforms utilitarian tools such as brooms and brushes into forms that resist usefulness. The works challenge assumptions about labor, value, and beauty while honoring the many hands that shape materials. In Project Space, the exhibition becomes an environment for reflection, rest, and quiet power.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/saint-joseph/sculpture-in-the-direct-method-and-maryangela-sanchez-rocca-preview-party/200029833272809
- **Event Categories**: Exhibitions, Art, fine-arts, Contests
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 6

## Ticket Details

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## Event venue details

- **city**: Saint Joseph
- **state**: MI
- **country**: United States
- **location**: 707 Lake Blvd, Saint Joseph, MI, United States, Michigan 49085
- **lat**: 42.10635
- **long**: -86.48548
- **full address**: 707 Lake Blvd, Saint Joseph, MI, United States, Michigan 49085

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- **organizer**: Krasl Art Center (https://allevents.in/org/krasl-art-center/1302522)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Fri, 15 May, 2026 at 06:00 pm (-04:00)
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** 707 Lake Blvd, Saint Joseph, MI, United States, Michigan 49085
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Krasl Art Center
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** Exhibitions, Art, fine-arts, Contests
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about Sculpture in the Direct Method & Maryangela Sanchez Rocca Preview Party ?
  - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents.

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