Ancestral healing through the elements with godsisters Ọbálànà Ọ̀ṣunyẹmí x Ọ̀ṣunikẹ Òrìṣàwunmi
In this IG Live, renowned costume designer Charlese Antoinette and author Camellia Lee will dive into the ways their art practices heal themselves, their communities and their lineages. Tracing the connections between cloth and culture, ancestry and alchemy, Charlese and Camellia will illuminate pathways for collective healing.
10am Pacific / 1pm Eastern
About Charlese Antoinette Jones
Charlese’s work was most recently showcased in the Ben Affleck/Matt Damon-produced drama AIR chronicling the launch of Nike, a fledgling sport shoe company that would become an internationally successful sport empire. Previously she lent her talents to writer/director Nikyatu Jusu’s Nanny, starring Anna Diop, Sinqua Walls and Michelle Monaghan, which premiered at Sundance 2022 and received the U.S. Grand Jury Prize.
Her most notable costume design work can be seen in the critically acclaimed, Oscar®-nominated Judas and the Black Messiah, starring Daniel Kaluuya, LaKeith Stanfield and Dominique Fishback, for which Charlese received a 2021 Costume Designers Guild Award nomination. The film was nominated for over 80 awards worldwide.
Over the last ten years Charlese has costume designed over ten films, among them, the Spike Lee-produced See You Yesterday, Vincent N Roxxy and Little Boxes, all of which premiered at the TriBeCa Film Festival. Additional films include George Tillman’s The Inevitable Defeat of Mister & Pete and writer/director Shaka King’s Newlyweeds, both of which premiered at Sundance in 2013, and earned King a Film Independent Spirit Award.
In 2019 Charlese launched the Black Designer Database with a mission to support Black designers through the amplification of their work while connecting them with consumers as well as media opportunities. That same year she also founded a fashion design program called DESIGN YOU! in partnership with the Boys & Girls Club of Greater Northeast Ohio. Charlese became a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Costume Branch in 2021.
Charlese has a new exciting chapter ahead as a Creative Executive at Ben Affleck/ Matt Damon’s newly launched company Artists Equity, where she will be developing and producing scripted and unscripted film/TV. Additionally, she wrapped her second film with Matt Damon, a heist comedy titled Instigators, starring Casey Affleck, Hong Chau, Ron Pearlman & Ving Rhames, directed by Doug Liman.