Please stop by for the final day of “Nourish: Storytelling with Saris”! Monica Jahan Bose will be there during gallery hours from noon to 4 pm and will b e happy to give you a tour of the exhibition.
\nNourish: Storytelling with Saris
\nLocation: Th e Nicholson Project\, 2310 Nicholson Project SE\, Washington DC\, Bus B2 a nd many others
\nExhibition Dates: September 10-November 4\, 2023
\nGallery Hours: Wednesdays 2-6pm + S aturdays 12 noon – 4pm
\nLink to Washington Post Review.
\nNourish: Storytelling with Saris i s an installation of video\, drawings\, poems\, saris\, and kanthas inspired by plants and herbs. Touching the soil and growing food are gr ounding and nourishing. For the last two years\, Bangladeshi-American arti st Monica Jahan Bose and DC participants in her Storytelling with Saris pr oject have been connecting with the soil and Earth and food justice issues by nurturing plants on windowsills and planting neighborhood vegetable ga rdens. This year they planted and harvested in the garden at The Nicholson Project. Bose led a series of planting workshops that included poetry and art inspired by soil and plants. Using performance\, sari art\, writing\, and film\, Storytelling with Saris\, which commenced in 2012\, links DC r esidents with Bangladeshi coastal women farmers in solidarity to address c limate and food injustice. There is a concurrent exhibition by Stephanie J. Williams.
\nMonica Jahan Bose b io: Monica Jahan Bose is a Banglad eshi-American artist and climate activist whose work spans painting\, prin tmaking\, film\, performance\, and public art. Her socially engaged work highlights the intersection of climate\, racial\, gender\, and economic in justice through co-created workshops\, art actions\, and temporary instal lations and performances. Bose use s the sari — a precolonial 18-foot-long unstitched garment that is always recycled and never discarded — to represent women’s lives and the cycle of life on our planet. She has exhibited her work extensively in the US and internationally (20 solo shows\, numerous group exhibitions\, and more tha n 25 performances) including solo exhibitions at the Bangladesh National M useum and MACRO Museum of Contemporary Art Rome. Her ongoing collaborative project STORYTELLING WITH SARIS w ith women farmers from her ancestral island village has travelled to 10 st ates and seven countries and engaged thousands of people. Her work has ap peared in the Miami Herald\, th e Washington Post\, Art Asia Pacific\, the Milwaukee Sentinel\, the Honolu lu Star Advertiser\, the Japan Times\, and all major newspapers in Bangladesh. She has a BA in the Pract ice of Art (Painting) from Wesleyan University\, a post-graduate Diploma i n Art from Santiniketan\, India\, and a JD from Columbia Law School.
\nThis project was supported by the DC Commission on the Arts & Hu manities.
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