• Publication 21 in collaboration with Current Obsession Magazine for Munich Jewellery Week 2021. We forged a new space, a melting pot where we dared not to shy away from heated conversations, we invited them, knowing and trusting in the process of alchemy that takes place in this sacred vessel. In this publication are 65 global majority artists with an array of life experiences and a spectrum of identities.

    Read the full publication here

  • Crucible hosted two talks featuring Artists & Jewellers Kassandra Lauren Gordon, Ayesha Sureya, Sylver Mair Finchittida Finch & Siobhan Wallace in discussions on how materials shape their practices to engage the cultural, economic, & sustainable narratives.

    Image by Ayesha Sureya

  • In collaboration with The Royal College of Art

    @ Pratt InstituteSteuben Gallery A & B 

    200 Willoughby Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11205, USA 

    Curated by Ashley Khirea Wahba, David Lisbon & Roxanne Simone

    Creative intern Zarna Hart

    Crucible, a global community of BIPOC artists, is bringing together makers and thinkers whose work has planted roots in African, Asian, Indigenous, Queer, and transcultural-futurism. The mothership arrives on the eve of New York City Jewelry Week in the form of our expansive multidisciplinary exhibition event, ‘Earthseed’.

    Fluidly exploring metaphysical identity, astronomy, cosmology, mysticism, science fiction, and magic, ‘Earthseed’ is an ode to Octavia E Butler’s Parable of the Sower. With a decolonial lens that considers both evolutionary ecology and ancestral wisdom, we will explore new hybrid identities and forms of being. We draw on science-fiction narratives and reinvent old dialogues with their racial and heteronormative bias.

    ‘Earthseed’ is an opportunity for a cross-cultural exchange of skills, knowledge, and connection. It is essential that we engage in a real dialogue to address the issues of our changing world. Here we can decide the future of our generation and explore ways in which we as BIPOC can share in the richness of our legacies in order to thrive.

    While this event is part of NYC Jewelry Week, as disruptors in institutional spaces we encourage artists who work in media beyond jewelry, including 2-D, 3-D, moving image, digital media, sound, performance, writing, and more. There will be programming involved as part of the exhibition event so we are also taking proposals from educators, poets, and others who seek to perform or engage.

    Exhibiting Artists 

    Morvarid Alavifard, Barbara Majek, Farvash, Apex Zero, Siobhan Wallace, Bea Xu, Ofi Davis, Natasha Fontenelle, Sylver Eulalee Mair, Maryam Fahim, Barbara Yixuan Wei, Emily Moore, Gabriel Hutchings, Taisha Carrington, Mairi Millar, Ayesha Sureya, Zhanna Assanova, Kassandra Lauren Gordon, Jaz Morrison, Alaa Abo ElGoud, Amira Ayad, Fleuri La Belle Ngapy & Sara Hammami