Arts and Entertainment

Opening of “Weaving Bullrush,” an Original Show by Desmond Ellsworth

March 27 2026

6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
Elizabeth River Project - Ryan Resilience Lab 4610 Colley Ave, Norfolk, VA 23508, USA, Price: $5 for Elizabeth River Project members and $10 per person for non-members

A new work by Nansemond artist Desmond “A’siiMost Moskwaa” Ellsworth

 

Enter a quiet world shaped by riverlight and memory, where native plants gathered along the Elizabeth River become living threads.

 

Weaving Bulrush reveals Ellsworth’s meditative tapestries—works that carry the ancestral knowledge of Indigenous Southeastern basket weavers.

 

A serene meeting of land, lineage, and contemporary form.

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