Image courtesy of the artist.
WITH DENISE SILVA-DENNIS
Join us for this very special session of beaded earring-making with Denise Silva-Dennis. Denise leads weekly workshops at Ma’s House & BIPOC Art Studio on Native American beadwork and other crafts to help Shinnecock tribal members prepare for the annual powwow season and pass down skills. The regalia incorporates shell beads, glass beads, buckskin leather, feathers, and other traditional materials. All materials are included.
$50 ($45 for Members)
Admission includes wine and refreshments!
Art Social is a monthly gathering where attendees enter into a supportive and judgment-free session of art/craftmaking and socializing. Bring your friends and expect to make new ones while tapping into your creative selves. Workshops will be led by experts in their practice, and the projects are designed to be easily and enjoyably accomplished by all skill levels.
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Denise Silva-Dennis
Denise Silva Dennis, Weetahmoe, (1960) (Shinnecock/ Hassanamisco-Nipmuc) is a multidisciplinary artist and educator based at the Shinnecock Nation in Southampton, New York. Denise graduated from Hamilton College with a BA in studio art and a minor in sociology. Permanently certified as a New York State teacher in both special education and art, her Special Education Master’s Degree is from Dowling College. Denise is currently the workshop coordinator/ beadwork instructor at Ma’s House, a BIPOC art center founded by her son, Jeremy Dennis.
Denise also presents her Shinnecock/Hassanamisco culture through her artwork which includes life-size figurative paintings, historical murals, beadwork, regalia, talking sticks, dreamcatchers, and other artifacts. Denise’s artwork has been shown at Southampton Arts Center, Ma’s House (February 2022 Artist-in Residence, Solo Show), Southampton African American Museum BIPOC Show, Long Island Museum at Stony Brook, and The Long Island Children’s Museum at Garden City. In addition, Denise painted “Wunne Ohke-The Return to Good Ground,” a two-story mural, as a Parrish Art Museum, 2022 Road Show Artist. Two of Denise’s paintings, “A Hole in the Sky,” and “Medicine Woman at Shinnecock Hills,” were featured at Gracie Mansion in Celebration of 2024 Women’s History Month.
Sponsors
Learning + New Works programs are supported in part by funding from Bobbie Braun -The Neuwirth Foundation, the Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Endowment Fund, The Melville Straus Family Endowment, and additional support by Collegiate Gateway.
Additional support provided by Friends of Learning + New Works: Toni and Seth Bernstein, Julie Raynor Gross, Stephanie Joyce and Jim Vos, S. Kutler Foundation, N. Glickberg, D. Glickberg, and J. Abrahams, and Barbara Toll.