CLOSING RECEPTION & ARTIST TALK

• Sunday, March 9, 2025
• 3:00 PM  5:00 PM

• Peel Gallery708 West Rosemary StreetCarrboro, NC, 27510
• United States

• JOIN US FOR A CLOSING RECEPTION & ARTIST TALK WITH ABIGAIL RUTH

  THE EVENING WILL BE MODERATED BY Marcella Zigbuo Camara

  
  About Marcella Zigbuo Camara

  Based between Los Angeles and Durham, Marcella Zigbuo Camara is a Liberian-Guinean American multidisciplinary artist, curator, creative director, and daughter of the South. Her passion is storytelling and creating visual narratives that explore Black identity, African iconography, womanhood, and community.

  Camara has been guest curator and speaker at multiple galleries, including Rose Gallery in Santa Monica and Ella West in Durham. Since 2017 she has produced seven independent group exhibitions, including Maroon Archive at PopBox Gallery in 2022, Mars Playground in 2019, and the young gifted & broke community art series from 2016-2019. In 2019 she was the inaugural Curator-in-Residence at NorthStar Church of the Arts where she curated an acclaimed group exhibition and creative directed They Do Not Know Harlem, an award winning performance art piece by Tristan André. She has produced and curated solo shows, including the exhibitions of photographer, Kennedi Carter and multidisciplinary artist, Derrick Beasley. Through her independent creative studio, Hibiscus Disco, Camara has consulted as curator, producer, and creative director on projects for various brands including Autre Magazine, Photo Vogue, Dreamville, Google, The Nasher Museum, and various nonprofits. She is currently working on a series of self-portraits titled Love & Body Horror, to be exhibited in 2025.