Click HERE to listen to the BBC podcast recorded on May 26th, in which Christiane tells the story of the Savane Kabuye Workshop–how it all started and our hopes for the future!
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PAX Rwanda featured in WePresent.WeTransfer Celebration of Creativity
PAX Rwanda and the women of the Savane Rutongo-Kabuye workshop and its founder Christiane Rwagatare have been honored by WeTransfer, the Internet file transfer service, to be featured on their site WePresent.WeTransfer that celebrates creativity around the globe.
“Migrations” – an exhibit at the Sheen Center, NYC
Join us tomorrow – February 23rd at 6 pm – at the Sheen Center, 18 Bleecker St., NY, NY for the opening of the exhibit entitled “Migrations.” The exhibit runs through April 9th.
In “Migrations,” world maps are devoid of borders. Instead, they are imbued with what DOEprojekts calls “Coreforms,” which are shapes that indicate continuous movement and migrations.
PAX Rwanda has partnered with DOEprojekts to create these stunning embroidered maps of the continents.
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Help Support Our Efforts
Now patrons who wish to give a donation to support the Savane Rutongo-Kabuye workshop can do so. All funds will go directly to purchase embroideries at prices set by the artists.
Although PAX Rwanda is not a registered charity (501c3), we have received fiscal sponsorship as a worthy art project through Fractured Atlas.
“Art That Heals” – PAX Rwanda Featured in Educational Update Magazine
Video of PAX Rwanda at Metro Baptist Church
In Memory of Harambe
This embroidery is being donated to the Cincinnati Zoo in memory of the young gorilla, Harambe, who was tragically killed in May.
Rest in peace, Harambe.
RIVAA Shows Celebrate Black History
Pax Rwanda Art Exhibit, Port Authority Bus Terminal
Juliana Meehan sits down with Natalie Pasquarella to discuss the Pax Rwanda art exhibit, an exhibit of original embroideries created by women in Rwanda who survived Rwanda’s 1994 genocide. The exhibit will take place at the Port Authority Bus Terminal.
PAX RWANDA: Exhibition of Fine Art Embroideries at Port Authority Bus Terminal, 41st Street and 9th Avenue, NYC, November 1-30
New York, NY, November 2015 – “Pax Rwanda: Embroideries of the Women of Savane Rutongo-Kabuye,” an exhibit of original embroideries created by Rwandan artists, is currently on view 24/7 in the Port Authority Bus Terminal concourse near the 9th Avenue entrance.
The exhibit has toured galleries and museums since 2011: at Mark Miller Gallery on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in September 2015; in New Jersey at the African Art Museum of the SMA Fathers in Tenafly, the Ocean County Artists Guild in Island City, the Puffin Foundation in Teaneck, and the Cottage Gallery in Ridgewood. It has also been featured at the Textile Museum in Washington, DC, and the Norwood Artspace in Columbus, Ohio.
The embroideries depict Rwandan culture, flora, and fauna and are designed by women who are survivors from both sides of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsis.
Their technique of threading three different colors onto one needle is unique to this workshop and was pioneered by its creator and artistic director, Christiane Rwagatare. With it they produce subtle blends of colors that bring their compositions to life, fashioning with needle and thread what the painter does with brush and paint. Each piece requires at least three months of meticulous effort.
The collection is curated by Juliana Meehan, a New Jersey educator, who discovered the embroideries in a small shop in the Rwandan capital of Kigali in 2010.