Textile artist and costume designer, Eniola Dawodu, discusses ancestral aesthetics
“Meanwhile, designing costumes for film allowed me the opportunity to reimagine personal style and self-presentation as a tool for storytelling and the expression of a character’s arc and self-identity,” she says. “I began to seek and record the narratives of African diasporic peoples told through traditional cloth and dress practice.”
Dawodu will deliver a presentation on November 20 at 5:00pm, co-sponsored by the Department of Global Gender and Sexuality Studies, Department of Theater and Dance, and the Humanities Institute Performance Workshop. Dawodu's exhibition, "Punctures: Textiles in Digital and Material Time," opens at Squeaky Wheel Film & Media Art Center on November 22.