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Helina Metaferia
Amulets 3, 2025
Assembled brass sculptures with etchings, paper documents, found objects
36 x 12 x 15 inches
HM100
Copyright The Artist
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Bibliography: Brooklyn Public Library Special Collections • Arnie Goldwag Brooklyn Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) Collection: • Flyer for City Wide Committee for Integrated Schools, “School Boycott! Freedom day…...
Bibliography:
Brooklyn Public Library Special Collections
• Arnie Goldwag Brooklyn Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) Collection:
• Flyer for City Wide Committee for Integrated Schools, “School Boycott! Freedom day… Join the one-day boycott!” February 3, 1964.
New York University Library Special Collections:\
• Unknown illustrator, “Young Sudanese Women March with Rifles in Khartoum,” National SNCC Monthly Newspaper, 1969.
• Unknown photographer, “Cut Profits Not People,” National Guardian, undated.
Northeastern University Library Special Collections:
• Batson, Ruth, Cover for paper The Black Educational Movement in Boston, 2001.
From the artist’s personal book collection:
• hooks, bell. Communion: The Female Search for Love. Harper-Collins, 2002.
Exhibitions
Syntropy. 21 Nov.-20 Dec. 2025, Praise Shadows Art Galley, Brookline, MA.When Civilizations Heal. 6 May-17 Aug. 2025, Project for Empty Space, Newark, NJ.

