Please join us for a MLK Day Celebration, a time to reflect on Dr. King’s legacy and the ongoing journey toward equity, inclusion, and justice. In this spirit, we invite families and community members to gather for workshop led by artist Aisha Tandiwe Bell.

Through shared making and conversation, this community day offers space to reflect, create, and connect across generations. All ages and experience levels are welcome. Materials will be provided, and no prior art experience is needed.

About the Artist
Aisha Tandiwe Bell is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice is inspired by the fragmentation of multiple identities. She is a first-generation Jamaican and ninth-generation traceable Black American. Born in Manhattan and spending her early years in Bull Bay, Jamaica as Bobo Shanti Rasta, Bell creates myth and ritual through sculpture, performance, video, sound, drawing, and installation.

She holds a BFA and MS from Pratt Institute and an MFA from Hunter College. Bell is a NYFA Fellow in Performance Art/Multidisciplinary Work and has participated in numerous residencies and fellowships, including Skowhegan, Abrons Arts Center, LMCC Workspace, Wassaic, The Laundromat Project, BRIC, and Dieu Donné. Her work has been exhibited widely, including at the Venice Biennale, MoCADA, The Jamaica Biennial, The BRIC Biennial, and the Museo de Arte Moderno Triennial. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and two children.

** This program is made possible in part by the New York State Council on the Arts and the Cultural Development Fund.

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