“Feels Like Summer” – Art Reception
February 15 @ 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Art Reception for “Feels Like Summer”
by Yewande Kotun Davis (2025 CHAW Resident Artist)
| Saturday February 15th, 5:30pm-7:00pm, in the Gallery
| Free and Open to the public
| Light refreshments provided.
| Biography:
Yewande is an American Nigerian visual artist, curator, and social practitioner using her creative practice as a means for community care. While her first career as a healthcare administrator lends to her expertise at the intersection of health and wellness and racial justice, her Nigerian heritage and Southern upbringing lend to her love of storytelling. As such, Yewande’s work celebrates, reframes, and even reimagines narratives that have been inadequately or falsely delivered in the past. Through direct social and community engagement, which often informs her work, Yewande typically centers the layered experiences of Black folks— most often women and children— highlighting joy, resilience, and shared humanity. Within her work, Yewande marries first-hand narratives with vibrant colors, reimagined yet familiar imagery, and attention to naming in order to highlight our connectedness and drive meaningful dialogues that promote healing and redefine the human experience.