By Way of Revolution Workshop
Hosted by Helina Metaferia
Location: Cravath Hall Board Room
This performance is an in person art workshop, led by artist Helina Metaferia. It is especially designed for women-identifying BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) who are students, staff, faculty and community members at Tennessee universities, commencing in North Nashville on the campus of Fisk University.
The workshop investigates how histories of protest inform our present day moment, and the powerful yet often overlooked role that BIPOC women (both cis and trans) play in them. The workshop will rely on performative gestures of resilience to explore how institutionalized and systemic trauma gets stored in the body, and provide creative and tangible tools for self-care and communal care to help sustain ourselves. The artist will lead participants through a series of writing, mindfulness, and somatic and performance exercises based on histories of social change movements.
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Registration closes on Mar 1.
This workshop is held in conjunction with Helina Metaferia’s participation in the exhibition Multiplicity: Blackness in Contemporary American Collage, held at the Frist Art Museum in Fall 2023. Participants of this workshop have the option to volunteer to be photographed on the same day at Fisk University, for a series of collages that Metaferia will create, combining archives of historical liberation movements with the images of workshop participants.
The By Way of Revolution Workshop, hosted by Helina Metaferia, is an EADJ sponsored event.
Artist Bio
Helina Metaferia is an interdisciplinary artist working across performance, video, installation, collage, and social practice. Metaferia received her MFA from Tufts University’s School of the Museum of Fine Arts and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Recent solo exhibitions include Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; Museum of African Diaspora, San Francisco, CA; and New York University’s The Gallatin Galleries, New York, NY. Her work is currently in the 2023 Sharjah Biennial in the United Arab Emirates. Metaferia's work is in the permanent collection Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; RISD Art Museum, Providence, RI; Schomburg Center for Research on Black Culture, New York, NY; and Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA. Her practice has been supported by residences including MacDowell, Yaddo, Bemis, and Silver Art Projects at the World Trade Center. She is an Assistant Professor in the Visual Art department at Brown University, and lives and works in New York City.
This is an EADJ event.
Helina Metaferia, Headdress 43, 2022, mixed media collage, 8'x4' From the By Way of Revolution series