Indigo Griot at the Northumberland Straight

Valérie d. Walker

Victoria Park

An installation of Griot-Patio Lanterns made through a unique series of Natural Indigo Dye Vat Alchemy and Adiré/Shibori-zomé resist pattern-making workshops and story gatherings with Black textile artists and other members of the community.

This project is hosted by the PEI Crafts Council, and presented by the Black Cultural Society of PEI & the Confederation Centre Art Gallery.

Project curated by Charles Campbell

Valérie d. Walker is a Neo-Renaissance, transmedia creator, alchemyst, Indigo Griot, Black Diaspora Inheritrix, Hawai’ian Pacific Islander, Queer Femme Afro-Futurist time traveler Artist, currently based in BC. V holds Ikebana (Japanese flower arranging) & Chado (tea ceremony) degrees with Urasenke-Kyoto & lifetimes of Indigo knowledge. After landing on Gaia in Honolulu, V travelled the planet in space and time. Her artworks illuminate quotidian actions with Afro-Futurist story-gathering, enviro-positive natural dyeing, hand & digital printing, sensorial, immersive fibre-based labyrinthine installations. Walker was welcomed to the unceded lands of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), Stó:lō and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Sell With (Tsleil-Waututh) and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) Nations by Chief Marilyn Gabriel.