Celebrate the opening of Anina Major: The Sacred Mangrove with an evening of art and conversation. Dive into the creative process with artist Anina Major and PAMM Curator Jennifer Inacio during an insightful conversation exploring how Major translates ancestral weaving practices into powerful ceramic sculptures and installations.
About Anina Major: The Sacred Mangrove
Bahamian-born artist Anina Major (b. 1981, Nassau, Bahamas; lives in New York) works at the intersection of ceramics, sculpture, and installation, using clay to eternalize the cultural practice of weaving—a tradition that holds stories of labor and ancestry. By hand-weaving clay to resemble palm-leaf plaiting, she transforms a tradition rooted in softness and impermanence into one of permanence and reverence. This shift from organic fiber to fired earth honors the labor, knowledge, and lineage embedded in Bahamian craft—elements often overlooked or commodified within the tourism economy. Major’s practice reflects the tension between the Bahamas’ image as a marketed paradise and the undervalued cultural traditions that define its identity.
