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Inside a beautifully renovated corner building, the Elegba Folklore Society has created a warm and eclectic gallery of fine art, imports and crafts.  Meditate, browse, buy. Combining Richmond's classic style with the pace and the palette of 2012, Elegba Folklore Society offers meeting and reception space in its turn of the century, downtown storefront.  Perhaps unexpectedly, Elegba Folklore Society's Cultural Center has the perfect ambience for a workshop, committee meeting or press conference.  It is an artful location for an intimate dinner meeting, wine-and-cheese reception or for the social affair after the business is done.  We can provide complete catering and entertainment services.  Our expertise, honed from experiences with a diverse client base, guides us in attending to your minute details -- the things that really make a difference.

Our featured artist is Tosha Grantham in an exhibition entitled 500 Days of Road.   The show runs through December 31.  This show is about maintaining balance and good fortune on life’s many roads.  It features photographs from the series, 7000 Miles—taken between Bronx and New Orleans—with mixed media works that refer to music, African Diaspora graphic writing systems, the hunter’s role in many West and Central African cultures, and the integral relationship between the living, the mysteries, commerce, nature, and the dead.

The guest curator for 500 days of Road is Inga Carr of Ingamaria Studios and Village 2 Village Collections.  She invites the conversation about shared interests, artists, literature, and memories from within the  African Diaspora that enhance the world.

Tosha Grantham is an interdisciplinary artist. Her work has been shown in New York, NY; Washington, DC; New Orleans, LA; Panama City, Panama; and Venice, CA. She is currently
completing a PhD in African Diaspora Art History at the University of Maryland, College Park.  
Recent exhibitions include Sacred Reflections, Prince George’s Arts Council and the David C. Driskell Center, UMD College Park, MD, SweetRoot, Studio Braat, Washington, DC, Re-Imagining Haiti: Le Projet Nouveau, MoCADA, Brooklyn, NY, Life After Death: A Multi-Media Analysis of the Persona That Was/Is Fela Kuti, Caribbean Cultural Center, New York, NY and You Put a Spell on Me, GrisGris Lab, New Orleans, LA.

Artists, Voodo Fé, Anike Robinson and Tonya Jordan complement the main exhibition with one-of-a-kind small pieces, handmade jewelry and an eclectic blend of accessories.

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