Work in Progress Wednesday by Sola Market
Come with your work in progress (WIP) and gain new, equally trusted eyes. This program offers a consistent space for constructive reflection, shared inquiry, and the objectivity we often seek, but struggle to find, within our own creative support systems. All mediums welcome.
Together, we practice looking with care: holding works in process without urgency, comparison, or premature resolution. Through attentive feedback and collective presence, artists are supported in staying with their questions, experiments, and unfolding directions.
We look forward to creating meaningful opportunities for artists to land softly in their process, progress, and practice, returning to their WIP with renewed clarity, confidence, and momentum.
Please make sure to register and submit your materials in the link below:
https://solamarket.notion.site/3354c2a077258034afbddb4cd53bc1ed?pvs=105
SOLA Market is rooted in the arts as a pathway for a greater quality of life and self-actualization across generations. We are building a circular economy for the future of the art world. We make the most essential resources of creativity across all mediums available through circular economies of art materials, gear, equipment, and knowledge. We do so through community-wide art programming, an alternative art school, and strategic partnerships across art and social impact with a focus on sustainability and workforce development. We are building experiences that enable the potency of art in life, purpose, and legacy across generations.
SOLA Market was founded by Oluwakemi 'Kemi' Oritsejafor, a Brooklyn-based American Nigerian artist, activist, community leader, educator, and entrepreneur. Kemi's work has been in residence with NEW INC (The New Museum of Contemporary Art), and is the local lead for Global Shapers NYC, Black and Girl Environmentalist. As well, she is on the board of Obodo Nigeria, a human rights center focused on LGBTQ+ rights in Nigeria and across the Black Diaspora. Kemi's creative skills developed from being taught initially by their mother, grandmothers, and aunts as survival skills on how to live well and communally. Kemi's foundations are rooted in being raised in a first-generation, immigrant West African community in the Black American South.
