Artist Studio Tour | Adebunmi Gbadebo

Join the Wharton Art Club for an exclusive, private tour of Adebunmi Gbadebo’s artist studio! We will have a tour of the studio and an opportunity to discuss the artists’ craft with Adebunmi herself.

Adebunmi Gbadebo is a multimedia artist who uses culturally and historically imbued materials to investigate the complexities of land, matter, and memory across various sites of slavery, centering on deeply resonant materials such as indigo dye, hand-dug soil from plantations, and Black human hair collected throughout the diaspora. The resulting works tend to carry the stories of ancestors, families, and individuals, either long overlooked or too closely surveilled. Born in New Jersey and based between Newark and Philadelphia, Gbadebo earned her BFA at the School of Visual Arts in New York. Her works are included in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, the Minneapolis Institute of Art, the South Carolina State Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Newark Museum of Art. Gbadebo has presented in exhibitions across the US and internationally in Asia and Europe.

Please arrive at the artist’s studio no later than 6:15 pm ET; the tour and discussion will last till 7:30 pm. Art Club leaders will help coordinate rideshares closer to the event.

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