The Community Folk Art Center presents – Healing Forward: Rituals of Self-Repair, Cultivation of Community, and Collective Activation: A Retrospective Exhibition by Amber Robles Gordon
The Community Folk Art Center presents “Healing Forward: Rituals of Self Repair, Cultivation of Community, and Collective Activation.” A retrospective exhibition of over 60 multimedia and quilted works by Amber Robles Gordon, an interdisciplinary visual artist of Puerto Rican and Caribbean descent who resides in Washington, DC. This body of work traces the through-line of healing—personal, communal, spiritual, and ecological frameworks—across the artistic career of Amber Robles-Gordon. Bringing together installations, quilts, assemblages, and collages created over more than a decade, the exhibition reveals how healing has functioned not only as a thematic concern, but as a methodology and ethical framework within the artist’s practice. This exhibition will be on view in The Herbert T, Williams Gallery at the Community Folk Art Center, located at 805 E. Genesee Street, Syracuse, New York, 13210. The works will be on view from February 9th–April 30th, 2026
This immersive exhibition bridges past and present, artistically blending history, culture, and creativity into a transformative experience. Drawing from Afro-Caribbean spiritual traditions, decolonial histories, feminist thought, and ecological consciousness, her artworks operate as sites of reckoning and renewal. They ask viewers to confront inherited systems of harm while offering space for breath, ritual, protection, and transformation. The exhibition is organized into three interrelated sections, each articulating a distinct yet overlapping mode of healing and awareness.
About Amber Robles-Gordon : Robles-Gordon is an advocate with over fifteen years of exhibiting her artwork, as an art educator, and coordinating exhibitions. She received a Bachelor of Science, Business Administration in 2005 at Trinity University, and subsequently completed her Master’s in Fine Arts (Painting) in 2011 from Howard University. Her artwork has been reviewed/featured in national media and art publications. Robles-Gordon has been awarded artist and artist teaching residencies and exhibited extensively both nationally and internationally. She has been commissioned by art museums, galleries, art centers, universities/colleges, radio and television stations to teach workshops, lectures, and create temporary/permanent public art installations for art fairs, agencies, and institutions.