Please join us to celebrate our resident artist, Sofi Hailu. During her time as a resident, Sofi has explored ways of processing grief through oral histories, filmmaking, animation, and the preparation of food. You’ll be able to check out Sofi’s short experimental film and will be treated to some of the recipes that she has translated from Russian in a way to connect to family and memory with a shared community today. You are not required, but welcomed to bring a food or drink item that represents the memory of home, to share in community.

“Sofi Hailu was born in 1998 in Nuremberg, Germany to an Ethiopian father, and Ukrainian mother, and was raised in the United States since the year 2000. In 2020, Hailu received her BFA in Studio Art at the University of Denver. Her animations have been featured in Denver Digerati's SUPERNOVA 2020 festival and the Placeholder BFA Exhibition at the Myhren Gallery.  Through mediums such as animation, sound, photography, and drawing she explores themes such as self-discovery, language, migration, the African diaspora, and music.”