Kendi the Loved One

Kendi The Loved One
Collaboration artists: Renée Richetts and Jacqueline Bridge
Price $1000. 40% of which will benefit the non-profit Front Porch Gallery and its community art programs
Kendi is a young musician. His family roots reach back to the Biafran area of Nigeria. He is well known to music-lovers for his hit call-and-response duet “Calm Down”, with its signature line “and that’s the risk you take”.
Richetts and Bridge used fused glass, fabric and recycled paper to create Kendi. Their collaboration process began with the belief that together, they could melt the silo into which artists so often find themselves, and produce more beauty, more joy, more delight. They initially believed Kendi was female, but he clearly had a mind/gender identity of his own, He is the loved one and only.