Great Stair Hall Balcony
Main Building
Philadelphia based visual image maker, Doriana Diaz, will lead a pop-up collage-making workshop using themes and elements from The Time is Always Now: Artists Reframe the Black Figure, investigating the concepts of Double Consciousness and Past and Presence to highlight contemporary visions for ourselves as Black people looking towards the future. Paintings and works from the exhibition will be used as inspiration to build ideas around how to position ourselves in both our past and present, memories, survival and endurance.
Materials provided. No experience necessary. All ages welcome. Participants may also bring their own scrap material to help guide their collage journey.
About the Artist:
Doriana Diaz is a multidimensional artist, archivist, and memory worker rooted in Philadelphia's soulful rhythms. She has hosted a wide array of collage and bookmaking workshops around the city in spaces like The African American Museum, Brandywine Museum of Art, United States Botanical Gardens, Mural Arts, and Fleisher Art Memorial, a variety of schools including Penn Charter, Delaware Valley Friends School, and Green Street Friends, along with places such as Express Newark, Ipade, and Bok Bar.
Her work explores loss, memory, fantasy, utopia, formation, and identity through the archival documentation of visual image making. Her collage work entitled 'A Declaration of Joy in Motion; Friday Night Voodoo' was chosen as the 1-year anniversary poster for Rachel Cargel's Loveland Foundation in 2021. This honor was in partnership with The Loveland Foundation and The Akron Museum of Art. She is also one of the 2023 recipients of the Black Music City grant, where her collage work will be funded by REC Philly, WXPN, and WRTI 90.1 to explore her project entitled ‘Sisters in Rhythm, A House of Our Own’ cataloging and memorializing the work of Sister Sledge and The Supremes through visual storytelling.
She believes art has DNA; her work is an exploration of cultural agency and rhythms of resistance and expansion.
Materials provided. No experience necessary. All ages welcome.