MEET ME AT THE ALTAR TOO

Friday, Mar 6

5:00pm

ETGMT

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Artists: Group Show About:Asata Maisé, Brittany Glover, Ciera Suragh, Charlese Phillips, Dominique Jones, Ellen Cappard, Erika Acevedo, Lady Morae, Maricien Dorliae, Marie Smith, MC, Phoenix, Sienna Jori, Shaylin Wallace, Shonté Young-Williams, Stephanie Boateng, Tish Williams, Tisha Taylor, Ty Nevils, Xyare Patrick Meet Me At The Altar is a visual art and healing experience centering Black women, femmes, and gender-expansive artists exploring healing, identity, and transformation through art. This exhibition creates a sacred space where creativity becomes devotion, community becomes sanctuary, and the work of becoming is honored. About Ari Sianeh: In a world that often reduces Black women and femmes to stereotypes or renders them invisible, Meet Me at The Altar reclaims space for the full spectrum of our spiritual and creative lives. This exhibition emerges from a simple truth: our healing is holy, our creativity is prayer, and our existence is resistance. As a curator and creative strategist, I've witnessed firsthand how Black women and femmes carry the weight of communal healing while rarely receiving spaces designed for our own restoration. We are told where God lives, how worship should look, and which versions of ourselves are acceptable. Meanwhile, many of us have found the sacred in sound bowls and Sunday morning painting sessions, in ancestral altars and abstract art, in therapy and tarot, in the church pew and the yoga mat. Meet Me at The Altar honors all of it—the churched, the unchurched, and those who found spirit outside the building. This exhibition centers artists whose work emerges from the inner worlds and emotional landscapes that traditional spaces often silence: queer spirituality, Womanist theology, ancestral healing, embodied pleasure, mental health, and the audacious belief that we deserve joy. Through visual art, sound healing, wellness programming, and communal ritual, we create what we've been searching for: a sanctuary that holds our contradictions, celebrates our transformations, and affirms that at the core—like our Creator—we are creators too. Here, we explore themes of resilience, belonging, grounding, ancestral presence, personal ritual, and the sacred work of becoming without apology or explanation. This exhibition asks: What does it mean to meet yourself at the altar of your own making? How do we hold space for Black women and femmes to be fully human—complex, spiritual, sensual, powerful, and free? In a society that demands our strength while denying our softness, our labor while dismissing our genius, how do we create spaces that let us simply be? Meet Me at The Altar is an offering, an invitation, a prayer. It's a reminder that our art is ministry, our healing is revolutionary, and our presence is sanctuary. For those who have been seeking belonging, this is it. For those who create from spirit and truth, this is for you.

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