Memory Keepers
Based in Maryland

Debra & Allen Ambush are teachers, painters, artists, musicians, historians, and most importantly memory keepers. Their artistic work explores the story of their African American experience and pays respect to how generations pass down spirituality and religion as guides to navigate and achieve under extraordinary circumstances. 

 

Through music, Allen Ambush shares the rich, innovative traditions of jazz, gospel, rhythm and blues, funk, folk, and African derived music. His performances center both on entertainment and preserving musical tradition in the African American community. Debra Ambush expresses narratives and personal family history through painting, drawing, printmaking, mixed media and ceramics. 

 

Faithworks has multiple meanings. Faithworks can be understood in the sense that faith actually works to sustain a community’s vision for itself and enables them to flourish by expressing their pain, hope, joy, and survival through art and music. It is also descriptive of Debra and Allen’s belief that the essence of a community is the result of a people’s faith.

 

Faithworks is a place where you can tap into your own history and express that through art, music, and storytelling.