“I loved the facilitator- she was vibrant, creative, encouraging etc. An excellent teacher...”
Writing Club, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
Experience art through writing. Each month, a guest writer introduces different works of art and offers a series of creative writing prompts. Our intention is to offer a calm, supportive, and welcoming environment for anyone interested in writing in response to art in the company of fellow writing enthusiasts. At the end of each gathering, writers have the option, but not obligation, to share some of their new work with others. Writing Club is part of the initiative Artful Practices for Well-Being, which offers ideas for connectedness and healing through art.
Possession, March 20 & March 27, 2023 | Jehan Roberson leads this Writing Club at Home on the theme of possession, focusing on artworks by Laura Aguilar and Nari Ward on view in the installation History Into Being.
Legibility, August 2 & 9, 2022 | Jehan Roberson leads this Writing Club on legibility, focusing on artworks by Adrian Piper, Alfredo Jaar, and Glenn Ligon on view in the installation The Sum of All Parts.
Traces, July 7 & 12, 2022 | Jehan Roberson leads this Writing Club on traces, marking presence, and marking time through focusing on artworks by Julie Mehretu and LaToya Ruby Frasier, on view in the installation Unstable Ground.
Facilitator, To the Marrow Creative Writing Workshop
How do we as Black people locate ourselves in art, in books, in culture when so much of history and the present seeks to erase or minimize Blackness? If the map is a tool meant for locating oneself, how can we map our experiences in the margins and also in the many intersections that mark our lives?
We will explore place and intimacy as they relate to bodies and personal histories through visuals, texts, and more. In considering maps as archival records of space, our acts of radical mapping will work to disrupt historical erasures and to reclaim the margins and other Black sacred spaces.
Creative Writing Teaching Artist, Community Word Project
Community-Word Project, founded in 1997, uses creative writing and multidisciplinary arts as a necessary element of public school education to ensure that young people have the chance to envision, invest in, and build a community different from the one failing to meet their needs.
CWP’s mission is to facilitate culturally responsive, multidisciplinary art programs for students, teaching artists, and communities to develop and amplify their voices and creative skills.