GODmana: Great Mother of Powerwork by artist: Woosler Delisfort

September 22, 2023 - November 25, 2023

GODmama: Great Mother of Power is an exhibition of photography by Woosler Delisfort that documents afro-spiritual ceremonies with a focus on the many roles the ‘priestess’ serves in African Traditional Religion. African Traditional Religion is the indigenous religion of the African people. It is polytheistic with no predominant doctrinal teachings. Rather, it is deeply rooted in ancestor worship, a hierarchy of deities, gods and goddesses, priests and priestesses, elders, healers, cosmogony, cosmology, and animism- the belief that all living things have a soul or spirit that energizes the

In this ongoing series, Delisfort focuses on the power and centrality of women in afro-spiritual traditions of the African Diaspora, specifically the ceremonies of Vodou, Santeria, and IFA traditions found in Haiti, Cuba, Brazil, Jamaica, Benin, Nigeria, and throughout the U.S. and ultimately wherever home is for the diaspora— because our spirituality is always there.