Workshops + Gatherings

Facilitated art-making spaces that function as collective inquiry, care practice, and research method. 

Creating Belonging: a Black Hair Art-making Workshop

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Creating Belonging is an intimate, facilitated art-making workshop designed for Black women, femmes, and Gender non-conforming participants. The gathering combines shared meals, guided conversation, and collage-based art-making to explore belonging, care, and collective imagination through hair. The workshop functions simultaneously as a social space, pedagogical intervention, and research site. ​

Format

• 2-hour, in-person gathering of 10-12 participants
• Facilitated discussion + art-making
• Community agreements and shared norms
• Currently offered in the DC area; virtual format in development

Core Activities

• Shared meal
• Participatory Questions (written and discussed)
• Collage-based art-making informed by conversation
• Collective reflection and Sharing

Pedagogical & Research Approach

This workshop uses participatory Questions and collective art-making as research tools, allowing participants to articulate embodied knowledge around care, belonging, and visibility. As a facilitator, I use these gatherings to test and refine questions emerging from my research on Black hair and spatial belonging. 

Participants leave with

• Completed artwork
• A reflection booklet including prompts and self/community care practices
• A shared language around belonging and care

Creating Belonging is part of my broader inquiry into how Black people and communities imagine, practice, and sustain belonging through art, dialogue, and care.