E2S2 Presents Harmonia Rosales In Conversation with Bisa Butler

Join us for an exclusive Chronicles of Ori, Book Signing and Conversation with Bisa Butler event at Howard University. Meet Harmonia Rosales, and get a copy of her latest book. Don't miss out on this unique opportunity to connect with the artist and take home a piece of her incredible work!

Doors open at 5:30 pm, followed by an artist talk and book signing at 6 pm. Books will be available for purchase on site.

About Chronicles of Ori

Chronicles of Ori is a groundbreaking literary work by renowned artist Harmonia Rosales. Its an epic mythology from the Black Atlantic where African, Caribbean, and American histories converge. A retelling of Yoruba mythology that redress the silences of the archive to bring the African gods back into the world. This powerful narrative explores themes of identity, heritage, and spiritual awakening.

About Harmonia Rosales

Since the genesis of her career, Harmonia Rosales’s main artistic concern has focused on Black female empowerment in Western culture, depicting and honoring the African diaspora.

As a young girl, the impeccable skill and composition of the Renaissance masters' fascinated her but the depiction of white hierarchy and the idealization of subordinate women, often falling under Eurocentric notions of beauty, dissuaded her passion. Thus, her message is not to create an ideal or simply to copy, but rather to create a sense of harmony between the struggling dichotomies.

The artist is informed by the ebb and flow of contemporary society where she seeks to reimagine new forms of aesthetic beauty, snuggled somewhere between pure love and ideological counter-hegemony.

Nourished by her multicultural Afro-Cuban background, the Black female subjects in Rosales’s paintings are in memory of her ancestors and function as a way to heal and promote self-love. Her figures are astounding in the hues of their skin. The dark cast of her subjects is specifically meant to separate its viewer from physical reality and transport them to a world that largely transcends the two-dimensional canvas. In this universe, the Orishas represent physical manifestations of life’s healing tools. She asks that one sets aside any religious associations and focus on the historical meaning of each painting. These universal elements empower and provoke analysis and communication.

Also check out other Arts events in Washington, Literary Art events in Washington, Fine Arts events in Washington.