SARATOGA SPRINGS — Spring Street Gallery, 110 Spring St. in Saratoga Springs, welcomes artist, shaman and mystic Royal Brown, with an opening reception 5-7 p.m. on Aug. 26.
Brown shares intimate spiritual creations born from life experience, meditation, creativity, engineering and mechanical skills. His focus is to bring about a new way of seeing that is normal and projected to be perceived as supernatural in “The Evidence of Things Unseen.”
Brown’s spiritual and creative journey will also be featured in these upcoming programs: Artist talk, Sept. 17 from 3-4 p.m.; Discussion with special guest speaker Awo Onianya Aikulola (Miki Conn), Living with Orisha: Walking the Path of African Spirituality, Sept. 30, noon – 1 p.m.; art workshop, Ships from Found Objects, provided by Black Dimensions in Art (BDA), Oct. 14, noon – 2 p.m.
Brown is a Wiccan practitioner earning the grade of first-degree. He is a devotee of the Yoruba tradition of Ifa, quantum physics, and Kabbalah. Brown, or Ifarinmoade was initiated as a Babalawo, or priest of the shamanistic Yoruba tradition of Ifa, and holds LCSW and practices as a licensed clinical social worker. His artwork originates from these artistic, psychological and spiritual explorations.
A portion of the sales of this exhibition will benefit Black Dimensions in Art (BDA). For more information visit: springstreetgallerysaratoga.org.
