Scholarship Fund for Gasali Adeyemo Workshops at Stitch Buffalo

Your gift will support a unique learning opportunity, allowing a student or young artist to participate in a three-day workshop with visiting artist Gasali Adeyemo. Preference will be given to those with personal connections to Adeyemo's home country of Nigeria or an interest in the practice of indigo dyeing as a traditional African art form. 

Our Goal:
The cost for each participant is $350. Stitch Buffalo's goal is to raise $2100 so that six artists from the Western New York community can attend. 

About the Instructor:
Gasali Adeyemo was born and raised in Ofatedo, a small rural village in Osun State, Nigeria, where he discovered his passion for art at a young age and supported his education by sketching portraits at local gatherings. He later trained at the Nike Center for Arts and Culture, mastering traditional Yoruba textile arts such as batik, indigo dyeing, quilting, and embroidery, and went on to teach these skills to students from around the world. After his work was exhibited in Germany in 1995, his reputation grew internationally, leading to opportunities to teach and exhibit in the United States and beyond. Gasali now resides in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and continues to share the rich artistic traditions of the Yoruba people through global workshops and exhibitions.