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My name is Bri and I have a passion and love for art, painting, nature and tattooing - my work will be displayed on this platform as well as my Instagram (“bricreations._).
Dr. Diana Baird N’Diaye is a multidisciplinary artist, folklife researcher, curator and transcontinental arts advocate who combines decades of experience both as a researcher and curator of African and African diaspora expressive culture. She considers her teaching as a vital aspect of her participatory art practice. N’Diaye’s art training began with sewing and needlework instruction from her Caribbean great aunts; In high school she became a student of African American couturiere Zelda Wynn Valdes, and worked as a mender in her mother’s dry cleaning store.
Once upon a time a silversmith, always an art lover. Now neckwear designer creating sculpture that is wearable art.
Fascinated by the art of Gabriel Munter and Hans Hoffman since childhood, Ms Baker has been creating paintings in a fauvist style for the last 60 years. she is also strongly attracted to collage, jewelry and quilt making. She resides in Takoma Park with her artist husband James Colwell in a Victorian era house they continue to restore.