Arianne's Artist Way
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I am Arianne King Comer, a Textile Artist and Indigo Advocate living in the Charleston area of South Carolina. My passion is creating textiles using the ancient technique of Batik. I have been creating art since age 3. I learned the technique of Batik at Howard University, where I graduated with a BA in Fine Arts. I then pursued the craft of textile art at The Center of the Creative Studies in Detroit and Cranbrook Academy of the Arts. I next studied Yoruba Textile Design and the organic process of Indigo with Nike Davies Okundaye in Oshogbo, Nigeria.
After returning to the US, I have used my art to communicate healing, joy, and to honor my ancestry through my creativity in paintings, installations, interior design, wearable art, and teaching.
Although I was born in San Diego, CA, I was raised in Va. Beach, VA. I moved to Detroit, MI for 20 years and relocated to SC in 1994; I moved to the Charleston area in 2005, where I have had a nurturing life creating many art forms that Spirit inspires.
Two of my dear colleagues/friends of many years, Deborah Mack, the Associate Director for Community and Constituent Services of the Smithsonian African American Museum and Rossie Colter, the Director of the Phillips Simmons Foundation, recommended the merchandise team of the Smithsonian Museums to connect with me as they searched for artists to produce products for their upcoming debut of the African American Museum in September, 2016.
The two representatives from the Smithsonian Museums, Ray Moore and Sid Bakke, came to my home studio in the middle of November, 2015. Magic happened as they walked through the portal of my studio and started taking notes and pictures of the creations that I manifest daily as my spiritual gifts. They started pointing to items they would like me to produce and deliver by June, 2016 for the new museum store! It was such an affirmation of all that I am to realize they wanted me to create one of a kind shirts, silk ruanas, shawls, scarves, dusters, men's ties, camisoles, art cards, Christmas rice paper bulbs, journals, napkins and anything I've done celebrating indigo.
My head is spinning with creativity and pure joy! I'm so ready for this gift! What quickly dawned on me is I want to use the best of my raw material resources and I need a jump start in purchasing these supplies to get started!
I am asking my loving extended community to help me afford this wonderful opportunity by supporting me with funds to buy these raw materials. My initial goal is to receive $3,000 to jump start my creativity by purchasing supplies to create pieces that truly come from my spirit, represent my ancestors' call and the Low Country. I AM SO HONORED!
What a revelation....I have been advised to keep the campaign open.....open to receive! Thank you my light keepers! Ashe o!
After returning to the US, I have used my art to communicate healing, joy, and to honor my ancestry through my creativity in paintings, installations, interior design, wearable art, and teaching.
Although I was born in San Diego, CA, I was raised in Va. Beach, VA. I moved to Detroit, MI for 20 years and relocated to SC in 1994; I moved to the Charleston area in 2005, where I have had a nurturing life creating many art forms that Spirit inspires.
Two of my dear colleagues/friends of many years, Deborah Mack, the Associate Director for Community and Constituent Services of the Smithsonian African American Museum and Rossie Colter, the Director of the Phillips Simmons Foundation, recommended the merchandise team of the Smithsonian Museums to connect with me as they searched for artists to produce products for their upcoming debut of the African American Museum in September, 2016.
The two representatives from the Smithsonian Museums, Ray Moore and Sid Bakke, came to my home studio in the middle of November, 2015. Magic happened as they walked through the portal of my studio and started taking notes and pictures of the creations that I manifest daily as my spiritual gifts. They started pointing to items they would like me to produce and deliver by June, 2016 for the new museum store! It was such an affirmation of all that I am to realize they wanted me to create one of a kind shirts, silk ruanas, shawls, scarves, dusters, men's ties, camisoles, art cards, Christmas rice paper bulbs, journals, napkins and anything I've done celebrating indigo.
My head is spinning with creativity and pure joy! I'm so ready for this gift! What quickly dawned on me is I want to use the best of my raw material resources and I need a jump start in purchasing these supplies to get started!
I am asking my loving extended community to help me afford this wonderful opportunity by supporting me with funds to buy these raw materials. My initial goal is to receive $3,000 to jump start my creativity by purchasing supplies to create pieces that truly come from my spirit, represent my ancestors' call and the Low Country. I AM SO HONORED!
What a revelation....I have been advised to keep the campaign open.....open to receive! Thank you my light keepers! Ashe o!
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Arianne King Comer
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Dorchester Manor, SC