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 Shawn Walker Untitled, Last Ritual in Harlem Series © ND |
Shawn Walker b. 1940, Harlem, NY Lives in New York, NY Selected Exhibitions: Rockland Center for the Arts Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture 12th World Festival of Youth and students, Moscow Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY Danbury Academy of Fine Arts Kamoinge Workshop Gallery Whitney museum International Center of Photography Museum of Modern Art Studio Museum of Harlem Harvard School of Art and Design Education: BFA, Empire State College Awards: Foundation for the Arts Residencies: Light Works, CAPS Columbia University Film Board “Street baptism has occurred annually on a Sunday morning, early in August, under the auspices of The United House of Prayer for All People. This, Church, which Daddy Grace founded in the 1930’s and led for 30years until his death, has a long history in the Harlem community. Its original location was on the block where the street baptism is now held. Baptisms normally occur in a lake, stream or pool where the person can be submerged under water. Given the inadequate space in their church on 125th Street and 8th Avenue, The United House of Prayer made a unique adaptation, holding their annual Baptismal in the street with congregation “submerged” under the water from a fire house. People from the Harlem congregation are joined by people from the immediate community and, increasingly, by groups from other parts of the City and out-of –state. The service is preached from a flatbed truck by Daddy Grace’s successors and augmented by intense Pentecostal bands, bringing the congregation to a religious state of trace / feeling the Holy Ghost”. |
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