Flashback to Zimsculpt at Dallas Arboretum

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Botanical Gardens-Dallas Texas
Dallas Arboretum & African Art

Looking back on May 17, 2017, it sounded like a pretty good idea at the time. After all it was just spring, how hot should it be out there?


                     AshleyCymone & Cory

As beautiful as ‘the gardens’ are, by 1:00 pm that afternoon in Dallas, it was hot as Hades so, next time I will surely visit in the early morning hours.

I only lasted a good hour and 15 minutes and my grandson was as red as a can’t apple, the poor dear. 




Make sure you wear a hat because mine saved me.

Zimsculpt



Although I didn’t get the full tour of the Dallas Arboretum, I hung out at the front and went to see the sculptors with Zimsculpt who live in Zimbabwe. Many of the modern Zimbabwean stone sculptures were displayed throughout the gardens. Zimsculpt has over 100 unique and exquisite sculptures of several dozen Zimbabwean artists.



Now, the outdoor sculptures were very nice but the busts located in the Zimsculpt exhibit were exquisitely using various stones. Owners, Joseph and Vivianne Croisette are welcoming and charming. Since they had a fan in the tent (too!) I decided  was certainly the place to be. Very beautiful and well worth the price for good old fashioned, skilled craftsmanship and original and unique materials. 
These are my favorite table pieces:
Dreaming
Stone-Verdite
$245

Young Maasal 
Stone: Lapodite
$2400
Ambuya (Grandmother)
Stone: Golden Opal Stone
$3400

The artists also make lovely jewelry:


Passmore Mupindiko, a sculptor who was working in the gardens outside the exhibit, was creating Shona sculptures on site. Passmore told me he began carving at 7 years old and worked mainly with wood. 


Sculpting was taught to him by his grandfather. 
In spite of the heat, I had a fabulous time. Thumbs up to the Zimsculpt exhibit and the talented artists from Zimbabwe! 

*All Photo Credits: Elegant Eventss Productions on location at Dallas Arboretum.

Here’s a quick video of the visit on my #ElegantEventssTarot YouTube:

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Hope you enjoyed and have an awesome day!

Editor In Chief,
San B

Bonus 🗒🖊

Binge ‘Isangwa Baskets 🧺 

The Tonga Tribe reside in a remote village in northern Zimbabwe called Binga situated along the shore of Lake Kariba.

The Tonga people enjoy enviable skills in fishing, hunting, boating and artistic crafts-from baskets weaving to beadwork. 

These handcrafted woven baskets are made by a co-op of women in various villages of Binga district. The women are organized into clubs numbering up to 33 clubs.
Each club has an average membership of 25 levers. These organized clubs are affiliated to Binga Craft Centre. Zimsculpt has represented their work In all of their world tours.

Each basket is woven from the middle part of the Ilia palm (hyphaene petersiana) leaves which is dyed using natural dye from a tree known as bird plum (brechemia discolour) or Mwiiy in Tonga to give a darker or lighter brown color which gives contrast. The dry bar of this plant which is common in the low veld is used. Indigofera tinctoria is used to dye the leaves grey.

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