(METUCHEN, NJ) -- The Bowery Art Collective presents Home Soil from February 1-29, 2024. This is an exhibition that amplifies the artwork of artists from Africa, the African Diaspora and African-Americans living and working in and around New Jersey in celebration of Black History Month. This show seeks to bring together a community of artists from different backgrounds but with a desire to make connections to shared ancestry, community and home through diverse interpretations, memories and experiences.

Home Soil is a metaphorical landscape of rich expressions of identity, dynamic struggles of migration and diasporic life, exploring materiality from ceramic sculptures, drawings, prints and paintings. There will be an Opening Reception on February 1st from 6:00pm to 9:00pm.

Featured artists: Curator: Sandra SK Amoabeng; Mentor: Donté K. Hayes; Alfred R. Dudley III; Janice Lardey; Doris Doku; Noah Jones; Emmanuel Amoakohenne; Messiah Walker; Yvette Anning; and Radisha James.

Home Soil is curated by inaugural Bowery Art Collective Emerging Curator Fellow, Sandra SK Amoabeng, a current second year graduate student at Mason Gross School of The Arts at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey. The Bowery Art Collective Emerging Curator Fellowship program mentors an undergraduate or graduate art student and pairs the student with a professional mentor artist to curate and install a curated group exhibition at the Bowery Art Collective.

The Bowery Art Collective is located at 335 Main Street in Metuchen, New Jersey.  It is an organization dedicated to giving emerging artists the tools and support of a professional gallery space to share their artworks to the greater New Jersey arts community.