Candy Mosaics: A Crafting Workshop with Pia Monique Murray

In this hands-on workshop, artist Pia Monique Murray will guide participants in creating intricate and colorful patterns using candy as a medium. Make mosaics that will be incorporated into the final PORTALS installation, and create a personal piece to take home. This workshop is open to all ages and experience levels—no prior skills needed. All materials will be provided. Drop in for as long as you’d like on either or both days.

PORTALS: Traversing Black Continuums is presented as part of Recess’s Session program, that provides artists the resources, space, and support to realize ambitious projects in collaboration with the public.

Access Note: All program space at 46 Washington Avenue is fully accessible for wheelchair users. Our restrooms are gender-neutral and ADA-compliant. Administrative offices are located up one flight of stairs, but we offer alternative meeting and workspace on the ground floor. For programs in both of our spaces, we will do our best to accommodate requests. If you have specific access questions or needs, please email [email protected].

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About the Artist

Pia Monique Murray is a choreographer, performer, installation artist, teacher, and creative producer. She leads Pia Monique Murray Dance Collective (PMMDC), producing movement-based multidisciplinary performance works that include community engagement and audience interaction as an artistic practice. As a 2022-23 CCI 2.0 Producing Fellow with Urban Bush Women, Pia was Associate Producer of by Chanon Judson and Mame Diarra Speis and is co-producer of When Black Women+ Speak. As Bailey’s Cafe’s Producing Artistic Director she produces and curates , a multidisciplinary ethnography project about longtime residents in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. Additionally, Pia is Creative Producer of Kendra J. Ross’ KJR Works company and the Summer Festival. In 2023 she created FREE Friend’s Fest, an 8-week festival in Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. She is also the creator of , an interdisciplinary project that centers joy as political activism.

Host or Publisher Recess