Opening Reception: Amanda Margaretha and Sharelle Monet Thompson

Sharelle Monet Thompson, detail Amanda Margaretha, Four Corner Earth, detail

Amanda Magaretha’s Diverse and Sacred Journeys

Amanda Margaretha presents Diverse and Sacred Journeys, an exhibit focused on exploring identity, purpose, and the shared human experience. By interviewing Northeast Ohio residents from various cultural and generational backgrounds, Margaretha gains access to their inner world; their hopes and aspirations, their fears, and their exegesis of home. From these stories, Margaretha creates sculptures that incorporate spices of the world to reflect each personal passage.

Growing up in South Africa, Amanda Margaretha developed a desire to understand multiculturalism and people whose heritage holds the histories, languages, and traditions of many ethnicities and geographic influences at once. After traveling throughout the Middle East, she became entranced with spices; collecting and studying their properties, uses, and history. Spice became part of her art, and in 2024, she invented her signature technique—Raison D’être—which suspends spice…