Antigua & Barbuda

Krokus Rootz
Art Collective

Making Ancestral Memories Meaningful

Art · Memory · Identity · Future

Our Foundation

Rooted in memory.
Creating for the future.

Krokus Rootz Art Collective was founded by four Antiguan artists who returned home with diverse creative and life experiences. Together they explore how art can reconnect people with cultural memory, strengthen identity, and inspire new ways of seeing ourselves and our future.

Their work draws direct lines between contemporary Antiguan life and the ancestral African traditions that remain visible throughout the Caribbean — grounding a shared practice in memory while building toward what comes next.

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The Founders

Meet the Artists

Makŏ Williams

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Makŏ is an Antiguan-American multidisciplinary visual artist whose practice spans painting, mixed media, technology, design, and cultural storytelling. After studying and developing her practice in New York, including at FIT, Empire State University, Teachers College, Columbia University, and SVA, she returned to Antigua, where her work has increasingly examined home, memory, identity, landscape, spirit, metaphysics, and the cultural textures of Caribbean life.

Iyaba Mandingo

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Iyaba brings a multidisciplinary practice grounded in spoken word, performance, storytelling, and visual expression, using language, rhythm, and lived experience to explore identity, history, memory, and the Caribbean experience.

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Afreekan Southwell

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Afreekan works across movement, performance, dance, and cultural practice, drawing upon African and Caribbean traditions and their continued expression through the body, masquerade, rhythm, ritual, and contemporary performance.

Zucan Bandele

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Zucan is an Antiguan artist and storyteller whose practice brings together visual art, sculpture, cultural memory, and narrative. His work examines the objects, experiences, language, and memories through which Caribbean people understand themselves, including the ideas that inspired Out of the Krokus Bag.

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Rootz Krokus is not just a name. It is a philosophy. We are grounded in ancestral knowledge while looking toward the future. Our work creates space for people to remember, question, celebrate, and rebuild connections to the stories and memories that shaped us.

Selected Works

Featured Works

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Beyond the Canvas

An Immersive Practice

Krokus Rootz extends beyond static visual art. The collective brings together painting, sculpture, spoken word, traditional dance, performance, drumming and storytelling into immersive artistic experiences.