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US artist Wangari Mathenge,
Ascendants XII (And Still I Rise), 2021 #WomensArt
September 4, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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Wangari Mathenge, “The Ascendants XIV (She is Here)” (2021)

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a painting by Wangari Mathenge of a Black woman wearing colorful, fashionable clothes, seated in an interior
May 18, 2026 at 12:37 PM
mdstamper.bsky.social
“The Ascendants XIV (She is Here)” by Wangari Mathenge (Kenyan) - Oil on canvas / 2021 - Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University (Durham, North Carolina) #WomenInArt #WomensArt #WomanArtist #WomenArtists #WangariMathenge #Mathenge #art #BlueskyArt #KenyanArtist #NasherMuseumOfArt #WomenPaintingWomen
Kenyan artist Wangari Mathenge places this canvas within The Ascendants, her series on African diasporic life of interiors where objects mark time, place, and culture. Identity forms through surroundings like textiles, plants, books, and a headscarf set in place. Her family moved from Nairobi to London when her father worked for the Commonwealth Secretariat. Painted in 2021 and shown in her solo exhibition “You Are Here,” the work is both declaration and refuge. A Black woman sits in on a teal armchair patterned with lime-green leaves, her deep brown skin warmed by soft highlights. She lifts both hands to adjust a rust-orange hair braids, her gaze turned to the side as if listening to her own thoughts. Her dress is a bold patchwork of white, black, yellow, and red blocks, paired with red-and-black plaid tights that stretch across long, angled legs. Behind her, a dark teal curtain repeats tiny motifs like stitched signatures. To the left, a pale round side table holds a light-green mug, a small dark figurine, and a thick book titled “The African Lookbook.” A turquoise lamp rises behind the table, and a spray of magenta orchids climbs upward, surrounded by broad green leaves. A white brick fireplace peeks in at the far left. Potted plants anchor both edges of the room with cool greens on the left, purple-toned foliage on the right while a flowing rug below turns into a map of amber, green, and sea-blue forms. The scene feels domestic and ceremonial at once vis a private room made vivid through pattern, color, and careful presence. Nothing here is accidental: each object, cup, lamp, flowers, book, and sculpture are a chosen companion like a small archive of taste and belonging. Mathenge often critiques how “immigrant” is applied to some people while “expat” is reserved for white Western migrants, so she seeks “reclaiming and propagating” the term for African migrants. Color and composure do the rest for a presence insisting on dignity and home.
December 22, 2025 at 4:20 PM
bklynbee.bsky.social
coffee at cassell’s, wangari mathenge, 2019

#artsky #art #painting #blackpainting
October 24, 2025 at 1:33 PM
joshymark.bsky.social
Wangari Mathenge
Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields
December 15, 2025 at 2:00 AM
gemmatorresg.bsky.social
Feliz día del libro.
Re-Menbering Folded in Time, de Wangari Mathenge,
April 23, 2025 at 2:15 PM
bklynbee.bsky.social
sundials and sonnets, wangari mathenge, 2019

#artsky #art #blackart #painting
April 15, 2025 at 6:36 PM
nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social
One more ignorant, colonialist human action damaging livelihoods and #biodiversity.

We need to #Unlearn 20th-century hubris and approach ecosystems humbly
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
How an idealistic tree-planting project turned into Kenya’s toxic, thorny nightmare
Introduced from South America, mathenge was intended to halt desertification, but now three-quarters of the country is at risk of invasion by the invasive tree
www.theguardian.com
May 22, 2025 at 10:35 AM
alex-the-ahsum.bsky.social
Really liked this video, so check this guy out!
#Marvel #Marvelcomics #DC #DCcomics #Superheros #comics
No. Electric Black People Are Not the Problem.
YouTube video by Ethan Mathenge
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June 28, 2025 at 11:38 AM
mimitlrife.bsky.social
For every
moment that
you feel like
you are
falling,
is the
moment that
you realize
that you have
survived....
-winnie mathenge

#Stunday #ImageAndVerse
#photography #EastCoastKin
#photography #leaves #onlybeautifulthings
#landscape #PhotoHour #LandscapePhotography
#PhotographersOfBluesky
A fall photo taken from my backyard in Knoxville, Tennessee in November 2025 of a red leaf tree standing next to a tree with greenish orange leaves. A tree with a few leaves on it’s branches is to the left of the photo while more trees are at the bottom.
November 2, 2025 at 4:17 PM
timnitgebru.blacksky.app
Richard Mathenge, Mophat Okinyi & Kauna Malgwi were on the TIME/100 list. Fasica Berhane's story won the True Story award. Joan Kinyua & others created the Data Labelers Association. Kauna is working on trauma-aware mental health intervention. See more at
www.dair-institute.org/projects/dat...
The Data Workers' Inquiry
The Data Workers' Inquiry is a global, radically participatory research initiative spanning nine countries across five continents.
www.dair-institute.org
August 28, 2025 at 7:10 PM
usedtobejimmy.bsky.social
Oliver Mathenge would have buckled immediately
August 21, 2025 at 9:58 AM
zyzzyvamag.bsky.social
Here it is: our gorgeous Issue No. 126. With writing by Adam Foulds, @jessicafkane.bsky.social and
@cleoqian.bsky.social; a conversation with National Book Award finalist Justin Torres; art by Wangari Mathenge; and much more. Pre-order here! www.zyzzyva.org/2023/10/26/o...
October 26, 2023 at 5:56 PM
mdstamper.bsky.social
The Ascendants XVIII (She Is Here And So Are You) by Wangari Mathenge (Kenyan) - Oil on canvas / 2021 - Dallas Museum of Art (Texas) #womeninart #womanartist #art #oilpainting #WangariMathenge #womensart #femaleartist #DMA #DallasMuseumofArt #KenyanArtist #womenpaintingwomen #Kenyan #artwork
Kenyan artist Wangari Mathenge's “The Ascendants XVIII (She Is Here And So Are You)” was part of Mathenge's solo exhibition “You Are Here” at Pippy Houldsworth Gallery in 2021. The piece belongs to the artist's ongoing series in which figurative compositions explore hybridity across the continent and diaspora, reflecting on personal experience of movement between the two. This vibrant painting depicts a woman seated at a vanity, engrossed in reading a book. The scene is composed within a small room, likely a bedroom. The woman is positioned centrally, seated at a green vanity with a three-part mirror. The vanity is the focal point, and elements in the foreground and background are arranged to direct the viewer's gaze to the main subject. The framing is intimate, focusing on the woman and her immediate surroundings with patterned fabrics and pillows on the floor in front of the vanity adding depth and interest. The central figure is a mature dark-skinned woman wearing a reddish-orange headwrap and multicolored, patterned gown featuring a variety of vibrant and bold patterns and colors. The colors and prints reflect the artist’s African cultural influences. Lauded by Apollo Magazine, “(Women) in Mathenge’s explosively colorful domestic settings – replete with Kanga textiles and other signifiers of their subjects’ East African heritage – have agency, either contemplating themselves and their own thoughts or observing us, the viewer, with magnificent hauteur.” Mathenge was born in Nairobi, Kenya in 1973 and holds an MFA in Painting and Drawing from the School of The Art Institute of Chicago. Recent institutional exhibitions include Stretching the Body at Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, and Black American Portraits, at LACMA, Los Angeles. Further collections include Nasher Museum of Art, NC; Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis; Elie Khouri Art Foundation, Dubai; Christen Sveaas Art Foundation, Norway, and Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin.
March 9, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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December 12, 2024 at 4:29 PM
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"OpenAI told me it believed it was paying its Sama contractors $12.50 per hour, but Mathenge says he and his colleagues earned approximately $1 per hour, and sometimes less. Spending their days steeped in depictions of incest, bestiality, and other explicit scenes..."

slate.com/technology/2...
The Horrific Content a Kenyan Worker Had to See While Training ChatGPT
The bot that can write anything for you has already taken a human toll.
slate.com
December 15, 2024 at 5:24 PM
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To hopefully do justice to this issue, we're bringing together @dairinstitute.bsky.social's @milamiceli.bsky.social & @krystalkauffman.bsky.social with @mophatokinyi.bsky.social & Richard Mathenge, cofounders of the Techworker Community Africa and former content moderators.

We hope you'll join us!
January 30, 2026 at 2:37 AM
gspeng.bsky.social
‘He blames the invasive mathenge, or mesquite, tree for contributing to soil deterioration. “They suck up all the water, and the shade they cast prevents grass from growing.”’
Mesquite may be welcome in flash flood prone AZ, but not in Serengeti
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
‘All we can do now is pray they continue’: Maasai welcome the first rains but know that drought is far from over
Intensifying climate patterns are pushing herders into poverty and displacement – and girls into early marriage
www.theguardian.com
April 6, 2026 at 4:51 PM
carlastaver.bsky.social
Nice article about the very real real-world and long-term ills of efforts to combat “desertification” with tree planting
How an idealistic tree-planting project turned into Kenya’s toxic, thorny nightmare
Introduced from South America, mathenge was intended to halt desertification, but now three-quarters of the country is at risk of invasion by the invasive tree
www.theguardian.com
June 25, 2025 at 1:56 PM
ekolojikevim.org
Bir Zamanlar Umuttu, Şimdi Kabus Oldu: Kenya'nın Mathenge Çıkmazı!😥

#mathenge #mesquite #kenya #çölleşme #ekosistem #biyoçeşitlilik #doğakoruma #sürdürülebilirlik #afrika #hayvancılık #toplum #umut #mücadele #ekolojikevim
www.ekolojikevim.org/post/matheng...
Mathenge Kabusu: Çölleşmeyi Durdurması Beklenen Ağaç Kenya'yı Nasıl İstila Etti?
Bir zamanlar çölleşmeyle mücadele için umut olarak görülen mathenge (mesquite çalısı) ağacı, bugün Kenya'nın birçok bölgesi için adeta bir kabusa dönüşmüş durumda. Güney Amerika'dan getirilen ve kurak...
https://www.ekolojikevim.org/post/mathenge-kabusu-çölleşmeyi-durdurması-beklenen-ağaç-kenya-yı-nasıl-i-stila-etti
May 26, 2025 at 6:47 AM
byjasonpdinh.bsky.social
the World Bank introduced mathenge to Kenya five decades ago to make barren land more "productive."

today, it's smothering biodiversity and triggering malaria outbreaks, KC Cheng reports for Atmos 🌍🧪
The Sour Aftertaste of an Invasive, Sugary Shrub
Nearly five decades after the World Bank introduced mathenge to Kenya, it has become an invasive species, spreading across the country.
atmos.earth
January 8, 2024 at 3:01 PM
ku.fi
Mathenge on Kenian villi lupiini ja jättipalsami – Nyt pakolaisleirin tytöt ovat valjastaneet haitallisen vieraslajin hyötykäyttöön
Mathenge on Kenian villi lupiini ja jättipalsami – Nyt pakolaisleirin tytöt ovat valjastaneet haitallisen vieraslajin hyötykäyttöön
Ennen uhkana pidetty puu tukee nyt kansallisia ilmastotavoitteita ja luo käytännön osaamista, joka parantaa koko yhteisön toimeentuloa.
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July 9, 2025 at 2:03 PM
jwaichungo.bsky.social
Mandarin House - Lantau - Online Notepad www.anotepad.com/notes/j9ngcy36
Mandarin House - Lantau
Date: 2 Eo_qpteob 2026 June Wanjugu Waichungo 13/88 Nelson Street Auckland City, Auckland Aotearoa Mandarin House Lantau Dear Company, I am told, that Meuu_qa Mathenge is brought 40% by Philip...
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October 1, 2026 at 9:34 PM
freitag.de
Der Mathenge-Baum sollte ursprünglich die Verwüstung Kenias stoppen. Eingeführt aus Südamerika, sind mittlerweile drei Viertel des ostafrikanischen Landes von der invasiven Art bedeckt. Wie Projekte die weitere Ausbreitung eindämmen wollen
www.freitag.de/autoren/the-...
Kenias dorniger Alb-Traum: Eine invasive Art macht dem Land zu schaffen
Der Mathenge-Baum sollte ursprünglich die Verwüstung Kenias stoppen. Eingeführt aus Südamerika, sind mittlerweile drei Viertel des ostafrikanischen Landes von der invasiven Art bedeckt. Wie Projekte…
www.freitag.de
June 17, 2025 at 1:03 PM