Join artist Tsedaye Makonnen for a conversation about her work across performance, sculpture, textile, installation, and film. Rooted in her East African heritage, Black feminist theory, and birthwork, her practice centers on social justice and global equity.

A Smithsonian Artist Research Fellow and Mellon Foundation grantee, Makonnen has performed at the Venice Biennale and exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Walters Art Museum. Her solo exhibition, Sanctuary :: መቅደስ :: Mekdes, is currently on view at the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art.
Tsedaye Makonnen is an Ethiopian-American, Washington, D.C.-based artist working across performance, sculpture, textile, installation, and film. Born in D.C. to Ethiopian immigrants, she draws on her East African heritage, Black feminist theory, diasporic knowledge systems, spiritual technologies, birthwork, and migration studies to create work centered on social justice and global equity.

A Smithsonian Artist Research Fellow and Mellon Foundation grantee, she has performed at the Venice Biennale (2019 and 2022) and shown installations in major U.S. museum exhibitions, including Africa and Byzantium at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Ethiopia at the Crossroads at the Walters Art Museum. Her solo exhibition, Sanctuary :: መቅደስ :: Mekdes, is currently on view at the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art.

https://africa.si.edu/exhibitions/tsedaye-makonnen-sanctuary-maqedase-mekdes

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