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Yinka Orafidiya is a social practice artist based in Philadelphia and founder of “Crafting Community”, a movement to foster social connection through collaborative pottery making and shared artistic experiences. Yinka has exhibited at The Manchester Craftmen’s Guild, The Woodmere Art Museum, Temple Contemporary, the African American Museum in Philadelphia, Paley Galleries at Moore College of Art and Design, and The Colored Girls Museum. She completed an advanced pottery intensive with master potters in Ghana West Africa and has also participated in residencies at the Moravian Pottery and Tile Works (Doylestown, PA), the International Ceramics Studio (Kecskemet, Hungary), and Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts (Newcastle, ME). Yinka has received a Multicultural Fellowship from the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts, an Independence Foundation Fellowship in the Arts, and a microgrant from Small But Mighty Arts and the Stockton Rush Bartol Foundation. She currently sustains her studio practice at The Allens Lane Art Center where she also teaches and works as the assistant studio technician.