Black Joy Archive: Collage Workshop | 5.7

Event Description:

This workshop will be an intimate space for Black members only.

The first edition of Black Joy Archive was created in the summer of 2020 — an urgent call amidst the global racial reckoning of 2020; asking contributors to reflect on their past histories, stories and personal archives. The second volume of this project was released the summer of 2022, contributors then reflecting on what their “Black joy” meant to them now; entrenched in a consumer American landscape that has transformed this term into low-hanging fruit easily co-opted to signal performative allyship. The third volume of this project is simple — 

how will your black joy persevere into our future unknown?

As we enter a new geo-political age that threatens the livelihoods of many, we wonder — what are the methods, knowledge, wisdom and traditions our communities have held onto and practiced in the face of uncertain pathways forward? And what ways are these methods lighting the path into the vast unknown? More importantly— how can we ensure that our global communities will indeed, persist?

As part of the release of black joy archive v.iii, this workshop invites Black individuals to convene to share, ideate and map ideologies in times of uncertainty. Participants will be invited to collectively write and create  images that respond to this question using personal and provided materials. Each participant's images will then be scanned, riso-printed and incorporated as part of the third volume of black joy archive, that will be released in May of 2025.

Facilitator Bio:

Zoë Pulley is a designer, maker and educator who utilizes stuff to surface the seemingly ordinary stories of Black folks through textiles, typography, and digital media. She earned a BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2015, an MFA in graphic design from Rhode Island School of Design in 2023 and currently works and lives in Brooklyn, New York.