The Exhibit
Exhibition Celebration: Saturday, October 24, 2026
The show plastic plastic is a celebration of plastic lace craft. It features 16 oversized hand knotted objects made using scoubidou stitches, a hand weaving practice more commonly known as scoobies, boondoggles, or lanyards. Each strand of plastic lace is made of woven pony beads, a traditional Black hair ornament for braided styles. The objects will rest, slump, and lean against the walls and the floor of the gallery in neon, pastel, and pearlized color ways.
The Artist
akeylah wellington is a sculptor, tapestry weaver, and hard dough bread enthusiast. Her work reviews 2000s visual culture and ironies through the lens of craft. Her work is concerned with humor, as a noun, connoting comedy, and a verb, meaning to endure. Her attention to the aughts’ technological and political developments is an attempt to make sense of her experience of loss, girlhood, generational inheritances, and time. Her work has been shown at Blah Blah Gallery (Philadelphia, PA), The Anderson (Richmond, VA), and Pond Gallery (Fayetteville, AR). She is a former artist-in-residence of Visible Records and Wassaic Project, a 2025 Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award recipient, and a museum educator.
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