created by Hailey4610 in Grade 3 at
Ayersville Elementary School and Ayersville Middle School
from school project "Adinkra Shirts"
art id #20376304
Artist Statement (what Hailey4610 said about their artwork)
I got to wear it at my program.
About this School Project (Adinkra Shirts)
This week the students printed their adinkra stamps onto their t-hirts for their music program. The raised areas were painted with black acrylic paint ant the stamps printed onto the shirt. They used others' stamps as well as their own. The Asanti people of Ghana and Cote d/IvoireWest Africa print adinkra cloth with carved calabash (gourd) stamps and adinkra aduro ink, made from soaking, pounding and boiling the roots and inner bark of the baobab (badie) tree and straining the resulting thick, dark liquid. The original adinkra (meaning "good-bye" or "to leave") cloth was red, dark brown or black fabric, worn only by royal or spiritual leaders at funeral celebrations. It has evolved over time to be worn by anyone and be of bright or, more commonly, white cloth.
The students have many colors and white shits, too. Please make comments to these talented artists.
