The Royall House & Slave Quarters presents interdisciplinary artist Ifé Franklin leading a two-hour hands-on Slave Cabin workshop for 20 participants. Franklin will guide participants in using materials such as fabric, shells, raffia, and beads to creatively interpret miniature cabin-like structures of their own design to take home with them.

Using the artist’s Indigo Project for inspiration, these small creations are reminiscent of slave cabins, designed to honor the ancestral spirits of Africans enslaved throughout colonial America. Franklin describes them as “wishes or gifts to the spirits of these ancestors, who never had a home of beauty, or even a home of their own.” She has led similar workshops as the featured guest artist at Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner museum.

Children ages 7-12 are welcome, but must be accompanied by an adult. The workshop will include a brief museum tour and light refreshments.

The workshop fee is $10 for RH&SQ members or Historic New England members, and $15 for all others. To purchase tickets, please visit our Eventbrite listing here.