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  • Socrates Sculpture Park 34-32 Vernon Boulevard Queens, NY, 11106 United States (map)

In collaboration with movement artist Coco Villa, Nifemi Ogunro will be leading a movement/building workshop. The workshop will begin with intros and sharing process updates of Ogunro's project. Then the recorded workshop will enter the movement portion led by Coco, continuing with watching the forms our bodies created then ending with drawings and building a singular object together.

Toeing the line between utility and style, Brooklyn based designer Nifemi Ogunro approaches their design process with equal consideration for the bodies that rest on objects and the forms of the objects themselves. Wood being the medium that they primarily approach their art and furniture making practice, Ogunro uses photography, film, performance and movement as sources of inspiration and application for their work. They define their work as functional- sculptures. One of Wallpaper Magazine's 300 people to know, works included in various publications, a piece that lives in the permanent collection of the Denver Art Museum to groups of works that can be seen in moments of the television show Everything’s Trash, Ogunro’s practice spans across mediums and is meant to be shared.

Design is an intimate process and Ogunro uses their work as a reminder and a celebration of how much beauty the objects we associate with the mundane hold.