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What does healing through joy look like for Black and Brown communities? Añamarié America Edwards seeks to create welcoming, joyful spaces for these communities through her artwork, inviting opinions, conversation, celebration, and open-ended expression. Raised in Alabama, Edwards has made Milwaukee her home. Her brilliantly colored paintings and mixed-media sculpture reflect her experience as an Afro-Latin woman in America.
Throughout different series of works, Edwards highlights joy not only as a source of healing, but as an act of resilience. For Black and Brown communities, cultivating joy is a way of resisting erasure, reclaiming space, and affirming life in the face of struggle. This exhibition positions joy as a radical practice as well — one that carries memory, strengthens connection, and opens pathways for collective future-making. Welcome to "The Home of Joy."
This project is funded in part by a grant from the Madison Arts Commission, with additional funds from the Wisconsin Arts Board.
