Abayomi Anli
Abayomi is an artist and educator that currently resides in Oakland, California. She utilizes textiles, public art, and painting to inquire about Afro-Indigenous traditional ways of being and visualizing Black futures grounded in healing. Abayomi is proud to be a member and organizer for the Aerosoul collective based in West Oakland. She holds a B.A. degree from Mills College in African Decoloniality in Art & History. Through her art, she aims to share and preserve Black & Black Native history in art.
“Transformation” explores how African & Afro-Native people have been impacted by colonialism, forced removal of ancestral lands, and enslavement. Engaging with illustrations Abayomi visualizes connection with ancestral homelands, water, ancestral cosmologies, and mythologies. Through connecting with traditional ways of creating and embodying Afro-Indigenous mythologies, allows the opportunity to transcend time, space and visualize the stories that have been washed out in the framework of America.
