My Photo Will Be in an Exhibit!

So I feel this makes me a photographer. You can’t tell me nuffin! So here’s the thing. I am trying to embrace (and get back to) my Just Say Yes life. I said yes to going to Ghana (though I was concerned about if I had enough vacation time, if I was going on too many vacations, and if the needle I had to get would hurt). I went and I did what I do ~ took a million and 39 pictures ~ and just like that one of my pictures will be featured in an exhibit in Herndon, Virginia…come on out and see it 😀

Each Other’s Dreams:

Konko Village Through Image and Word

Check it out:

ArtSpace Herndon –  Join us Thursday, August 28, 2014 from 7 to 9 p.m. for a very special Each Other’s Dreams: Konko Village Through Image and Word Opening Reception at ArtSpace Herndon. Herndon Mayor Lisa Merkel will present proclamation to special guest Queen Mother Nana Botwe Adobea II of Konko Village. Author Kwame Alexander and photographer and filmmaker Kenneth Braswell will share some of their experiences in Konko. Leap for Ghana Executive Director Lindsay Alexis will talk about the foundation’s impact on the children of Konko. Poet Nikki Giovanni will read an original poem about Konko.

Through Each Other’s Dreams: Konko Village Through Image and Word, ArtSpace Herndon presents a very special exhibit of the people, places, customs, and life in Konko, a small village in Ghana, West Africa, as told through the photographs, carvings, and writings of photographer and filmmaker Kenneth Braswell, poet Nikki Giovanni, literacy artist Caroline Brewer, photographer Carla D. Blackwell, master wood carver Daniel B. Aryeety, writer Tinesha Davis and author Kwame Alexander.

“What I tried to do with this exhibit,” says Kwame, “was show that even though these children and families are in Ghana, they smile like us. They work like us. The challenges they face are fixable. And that’s why we started LEAP. Like Nikki Giovanni says, ‘Life is a lot more fun when you’re giving.’.”

Exhibitors will donate proceeds from the sale of the photographs and sculptures in the show to the Nikki Giovanni/LEAP for Ghana Scholarship. The scholarship provides tuition, housing, and fees for students in the village of Konko to attend high school, which costs upwards of $1000 per annum in Ghana.