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Adama Delphine Fawundu

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@adamadelphine
alchemist - Guggenheim Fellow Prof. @ Columbia U Co-Founder @mfonfoto Gallery: @hesse_flatow Board Member : @indigoartsalliance @penumbrafoundation
  • Art & DIY
  • Following 7.5K
  • Followers 15.6K
  • Engagement 1.88%
  • Avg comments 32

About Adama Delphine Fawundu

Adama Delphine Fawundu (@adamadelphine) is an Artist creator on Instagram, also filed under Art & DIY. The account has 15,633 followers and 3,664 published posts. Recent posts average 305 likes and 32 comments, an engagement rate of 1.88%.

With 15.6K followers, Adama Delphine Fawundu is a micro creator by the common 10,000 to 100,000 definition. Adama Delphine Fawundu follows 7,464 accounts, so the audience is roughly 2.1 times the size of the list followed. Adama Delphine Fawundu uses an Instagram professional account. Flinque files Adama Delphine Fawundu under Artist, with Art & DIY as a secondary category.

The Instagram bio for Adama Delphine Fawundu runs to 16 words across 5 lines. The bio mentions @mfonfoto, @hesse_flatow, @indigoartsalliance and @penumbrafoundation. The latest activity Flinque has on record for Adama Delphine Fawundu dates from December 2025.

3,664 Posts

Of the 10 most recent posts shown for Adama Delphine Fawundu, 4 are carousels, 3 are single images and 3 are videos. No single format accounts for most of them. With 3,664 posts published, Adama Delphine Fawundu's archive runs well past the 2,000 mark. Against the audience, that is roughly 4.3 followers for each post published. All 10 carry captions, averaging 167 words each. The captions are written mainly in English. Words that recur across them include artists, work, through, memory and black. The captions tag #happygraduation and #proudmom.

The City of Newark Division of Arts & Cultural Affairs, Newark Arts & Education District, Invest Newark, Newark Urban Enterprise Zone, Newark Alliance, & Newark Downtown District—together with local arts nonprofit Project for Empty Space—have launched A CITY OF CREATORS, a large-scale public art initiative activating vacant retail storefronts across Downtown Newark.

This initiative brings contemporary art into more than 20 vacant storefronts, creating an immersive arts corridor featuring work by 25 local artists & organizations. Through window-based installations, A CITY OF CREATORS connects artists, small businesses, & neighborhood narratives, reframing vacant retail spaces as sites of visibility, creativity, & opportunity.

Join us for a public celebration Thursday, June 11, from 5–7 PM at 756 Mayor Kenneth A. Gibson Blvd. RSVP via link in bio.

Featured installation: MIRRORS OF SELF: ECONOMIES OF CARE & STYLE by Adama Delphine Fawundu
📍 707 Mayor Kenneth A. Gibson Blvd.

🪮Adama Delphine Fawundu is a visual artist, educator, & cultural organizer whose work spans photography, textiles, video, sound, & handmade paper. Drawing on ancestral memory & diasporic histories, she explores how stories are carried through bodies & cultural materials. A first-generation artist of Sierra Leonean & Equatorial Guinean heritage, Fawundu co-edited MFON: Women Photographers of the African Diaspora & has received honors including Guggenheim & NY Foundation for the Arts fellowships.

💈MIRRORS OF SELF: ECONOMIES OF CARE & STYLE explores how, in Newark, style is identity, ritual, & cultural expression. Hair salons, barbershops, jewelry stores, & beauty supply shops are spaces of gathering, transformation, & community rooted in Black & Brown cultural traditions shaped by migration, heritage, & resilience.

✂ Scan the QR code to learn more about the artists & businesses behind the work.
a sisterhood sparked in bamako in 2022, carried across water, memory, and all the ways black women find one another again and again.

deep gratitude to adama delphine fawundu and the world she has gathered in praise house - a meditation on devotion, inheritance, the sacred labour of remembering. to sit in conversation with this work felt like entering a space built by the hands of women who understood survival as both ritual and art.

thank you to chiara figone of archive books + kennedy jones whose commitment continue to make impossible things material.

thank you to deb willis + joan morgan for making space for our conversation at nyu, for holding open a room where memory, image, and black feminist thought could meet one another with care.

still carrying the conversation with me.
praise be.

photograph by
We did it and it took a Village - I chose the best Pops in the world to make these babies with and Im so grateful. It’s been a beautiful journey and the journey continues. My youngest son Ras Kofi has earned his B.S. in Business Administration from our Alma Mater and I am a proud Mama! My most amazing accomplishment is raising three young babies into Beautiful People who are making GREAT contributions to society. Here is to the years and some change of Breast Feeding to assure that they were getting the appropriate nutrients to nurture their minds, body and spirit, curated media intake to protect their minds, body and spirit, tons of books, creative play, music, parks, travel, conversation, finding answers to tons of questions, LOVE, never saying “boys don’t cry,” empathy building, after schools programs, weekends and summers booked with all types of activities, actively listening, Being there - unconditional LOVE. The journey never ends I am HERE for it. What a joy!

I’m look forward to where Ras will take his venture - his creative writing, music and film production. He cares about the people and leads with LOVE. I’m so proud of my Sun!

#HappyGraduation
#ProudMom
I am so happy that I witnessed my dear best friend receive this beautiful honor yesterday. I have been on this journey with her for 24 years and the blessings continue to reveal.

Laylah, keeping creating your path, taking leaps knowing that you will stand firmly in your vision.

Love ya! Distinguished Artist from Brooklyn!!! Brownsville Never Ran Never Will!!

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"Water operates as a profound cosmological force throughout the [salt 17] exhibition. In the two-channel video installation Vibrations from the Deep (2025), filmed across Nigeria, Congo, Sierra Leone, Ghana, Brazil, and the United States, including footage from the Great Salt Lake, viewers become immersed in water, chanting, and embodied gesture...

Fawundu’s ritualized immersion in the Great Salt Lake grounds the exhibition in the ecological realities of the American West. As the lake recedes and its exposed bed releases toxic dust into surrounding communities, water becomes both absence and warning. In Utah, lithium extraction and mineral economies echo the extractive logics that have shaped the Congo for generations. By entering the saline water in a gesture of ritual care, Fawundu links inland drought to global mineral demand, reminding viewers that the infrastructures of technology and industry are tethered to fragile bodies of water. Salt preserves, yet it also signals depletion. The Great Salt Lake and the Congo River become unlikely mirrors, each bearing the mark of extraction."

Read more in "Adama Delphine Fawundu Brings the Congo (and Beyond) into Conversation with Salt Lake" by for. Find the link in our "News" Highlight at the top of our bio.

salt 17: Adama Delphine Fawundu is on view through June 14.

Curatorial Sponsor: Erica and Ben Dahl
salt 17 is funded in part by The Joseph and Evelyn Rosenblatt Enrichment Fund.

Artwork Credit: Adama Delphine Fawundu (American, born 1971), Vibrations from the deep, 2025, (stills from) two-channel HD video, filmed in Nigeria, Congo, Sierra Leone, Ghana, Malta, Cuba, Brazil, and the United States (South Carolina, Utah, Georgia, and Maine), sound, edition 1 of 3, 7 minutes 56 seconds. Courtesy of the artist
I’m looking forward to heading back to the Bay Area!

About ENGAGE!
Three days of dialogue, learning, and a curated set of programs featuring keynote speaker Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein and more!

ENGAGE! brings together scholars, artists, performers, curators, and scientists for a dynamic convening over three days of dialogue, learning, and interactive activations. Inspired by the groundbreaking exhibition UNBOUND: Art, Blackness & the Universe curated by Key Jo Lee, the gathering invites our audience to excavate how we can reimagine Blackness not as fixed or earthbound, but as infinite – expansive, unknowable, and cosmically rich. The exhibition asks: What if we approached Blackness with the same wonder we bring to the universe? What if, like a black hole or distant star, Blackness could be a site of mystery, power, and transformation?
Missing my time at last year. Yearning to revisit Bahia. What a beautiful experience. is the best! 💙💙💙. I also was in the residency with the most amazing artists. Thanks to for the lovely photograph.
✨✨Adama Delphine Fawundu’s Praise House is here!✨✨

🪻🪻With contributions by Mistura Allison, Berette S Macaulay, Niama Safia Sandy, Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, Deborah Willis 🪻🪻

Building on the notion of ‘praise,’ Adama Delphine Fawundu frames this book as a celebration of life. She honors the stories whispered to her by her mother; she adorns her body in her grandmother’s textile work; she elevates the memory of various named and unnamed Black women of the diaspora and documents the iconic small Civil War era styled white wooded praise house on a patch of land off the side of a road in South Carolina not far from Beaufort creating an intimate body of work of color photography of an interconnected history.

This book about female figures—grandmothers, mothers, daughters, artists, caregivers, storytellers, and cooks—explores a range of emotions that consume us about family life and history. It is both an art book and a memoir. Viewing it brings us face to face with known and unknown cultures and introduces us to various art practices shared, taught, and learned through the African diasporic traditions. Fawundu connects to the self through history, joy, and beauty and offers the reader ways to navigate fear based on migration and loss. It is a gift, too, as it allows us to imagine alongside the artist.

-Deborah Willis

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What does it mean for a mask from Kinshasa to find itself parched and institutionalized in an Utah museum? Once animated in ceremony, now suspended in salt. This is the paradox at the heart of Adama Delphine Fawundu at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts (UMFA) for their 17th edition of the salt series; where regional, national, and international artists have an opportunity to debut new work that often engages with Utah’s ecology as well as the Museum’s global collection.

A multidisciplinary artist, Fawundu’s process uses ritualistic, Indigenous body memory to tether the living and the ancestral. With the understanding that water is a portal, her body becomes a vessel or container of memory that traverses space and time. Traveling to different countries in the diaspora, Fawundu builds a living archive of ora, hair, rafa, cowrie shells, mud, sand, stones, chalk, calabash, dried leaves, and herbs that inform her mixed media assemblage works. Her practice is materially dense yet spiritually porous to allow for ancestral and Indigenous intelligence to become embodied and manifest in every aspect of her work.

She is subsumed by memories that are
carried through water—which she traces from one aqua vein to another in a circulatory ancestral system that unifies the diasporic body—plunging herself into bodies of water in various countries of the diaspora in meditative rituals. Her rituals then become immortalized in her photographs and films, providing cultural continuity for communities stripped of their ties to history and robbed of their memories and bodies.

Read more in “Salt, Water, Memory: Restitution Through the Work of Adama Delphine Fawundu” by Yvonne Mpwo,
Independent Curator and bana’pwo Founder from the latest salt publication available in English and Spanish.

Link in bio.

salt 17 was funded in part by The Joseph and Evelyn Rosenblatt Enrichment Fund

salt 17 curatorial sponsor: Erica and Ben Dahl
Check out my One Piece: Ancestral Whispers in

Link in Bio 🌞

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Adama Delphine Fawundu's engagement

Adama Delphine Fawundu's engagement rate on Instagram is 1.88%, between 1% and 3%, or 1 to 3 likes and comments per 100 followers. On a typical post that comes to about 1 like or comment for every 53 followers. Comments stay close to likes on Adama Delphine Fawundu's posts, at 305 likes and 32 comments on average, about 9.5 likes per comment.

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Adama Delphine Fawundu (@adamadelphine) is an Artist creator on Instagram, also filed under Art & DIY. Adama Delphine Fawundu uses an Instagram professional account. The Instagram bio for Adama Delphine Fawundu runs to 16 words across 5 lines.

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Adama Delphine Fawundu has 15,633 followers on Instagram (15.6K). Adama Delphine Fawundu follows 7,464 accounts, so the audience is roughly 2.1 times the size of the list followed. With 3,664 posts published, Adama Delphine Fawundu's archive runs well past the 2,000 mark.

What is Adama Delphine Fawundu's engagement rate?

Adama Delphine Fawundu's engagement rate on Instagram is 1.88%, between 1% and 3%, or 1 to 3 likes and comments per 100 followers. On a typical post that comes to about 1 like or comment for every 53 followers. Comments stay close to likes on Adama Delphine Fawundu's posts, at 305 likes and 32 comments on average, about 9.5 likes per comment.

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Flinque files Adama Delphine Fawundu under Artist, with Art & DIY as a secondary category. Of the 10 most recent posts shown for Adama Delphine Fawundu, 4 are carousels, 3 are single images and 3 are videos. The 10 recent Instagram captions Flinque holds for Adama Delphine Fawundu repeatedly use the words artists, work, through, memory and black. Adama Delphine Fawundu's captions carry hashtags such as #happygraduation and #proudmom. Adama Delphine Fawundu writes those captions mainly in English.

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