The Gift (for Adria Hunter)

Acts of Kindness: The Gift Project is a community fundraiser and pop-up gallery presentation, at Co-prosperity, May 12. Funded by Project UnLonely and Jeremy Nobel, this event brings together 15 artists who have each chosen a community member whose contributions often go unseen to honor. Each artist has made an art piece inspired by their community member to honor who they are and their work and to make the unseen seen. Additionally, to highlight an organization that often supports marginalized and unseen community members, we will be holding a fundraiser for Howard Brown Health and The Trevor Project with a pay-what-you-will entry and silent auction as part of the event.

Personally, I am giving gift to this admirable lady Adria Hunter, who worked in South Africa in her youth, and has been contributing effort to the LGBTQ+ community help over years, also charity for education.

Here is her discription to the photos she sent me, I made these print transfer with arcylic and oil paint afterwards, with the first paragraph of The Poem for South African Women by June Jordon:

“Mbazwana, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa - 2000


Zulu rondeval where I slept while living in Mbazwana, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa


Fence building at a marketplace for a women’s economic empowerment project in Mbazwana, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa


Drakensberg Mountains, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa


Fence building at a farm in Camperdown, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa


Fence building at a farm in Camperdown, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa


Me with my friend Bheki Maphumulo whose daughter I eventually helped put through college at University of KwaZulu-Natal (same place, incidentally, that I received my master’s degree)”