“She taught me that I could make anything out of anything.”
WILLIE COLE, ARTIST
Enjoy a must-watch documentary short on Kea Tawana, a self-taught artist and builder, designed and built the massive boat by herself, using materials salvaged from 19th century buildings being torn down in an urban wasteland. Directed by Susan Wallner, part of the 2019 Raw Vision short film competition.
‘Kea’s Ark’ tells the story of how a 3-story ark came to be built in Newark’s devastated Central Ward in the mid-1980s. Kea Tawana (1940-2016) worked on it for years before Newark’s newly-elected mayor Sharpe James took note and demanded it gone.
It no longer exists, but Kea’s Ark remains a powerful symbol of hope in Newark and beyond.
via Raw Vision
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