Sit A Spell:

An Invitation and Invocation

The Colored Girls Museum is proud to share our next exhibit, Sit a Spell: An Invitation. An Invocation opening March 11, 2023.

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This cadre of emerging artists includes painter Daphne Arthur, who uses smoke as a medium in her work. Other artists include quilters Aliyah Bonnette and Philadelphia-based fiber artist Ellen Blalock.  Nestled on the third floor is an Afro-futuristic speakeasy featuring  “What Black Feminists Taught Me,” a series of photographs centering Philadelphia women and gender-expansive people. The series is a collaboration between  Philadelphia Printworks and Washington D.C.-based advocacy group Black Women Radicals. 

“This exhibition features work from artists in Washington, DC, New Jersey, North Carolina, and Ghana,” Dubois said. “This show signals the museum’s intention to move beyond Philadelphia into other spaces and places in the world. We would like to see outposts of The Colored Girl Museum everywhere.” 

DuBois was recently named a 2022 Philadelphia Cultural Treasures Fellow.

Safe spaces for Black women like the Germantown-based TCGM are necessary now more than ever, explained DuBois.  Politicians are suppressing Black history. Reproductive rights are under attack. The future is scary. “If Black girls aren’t safe, Black women won’t be safe if Black women aren't safe, nobody is safe,” Dubois said. “TCGM is a sanctuary that fosters the praise, protection and grace of Black women and girls.”

Sit a Spell is an invitation to celebrate the work of new artists from the African diaspora. It’s also a call to Black women to invoke the wisdom of their ancestors, remember their history, and chart a path to their future.  Just taking the time to Sit A Spell at TCGM is an act of resistance.