Memory Maps: Collage and Assemblage Workshop
Schedule
Sun May 24 2026 at 12:00 pm to 02:00 pm
UTC-07:00Location
Berkeley Art Center | Berkeley, CA
About this Event
Memory Maps: Collage and Assemblage Workshop
Join us for a weekend artmaking workshop! Memory Maps is an intergenerational workshop exploring memory, place, ecology, and storytelling through collage and assemblage. Using layered paper, maps, recycled and natural materials, textures, and found objects, participants will create small sculptural collages inspired by personal reflection and community connection.
This workshop is open to all experience levels and encourages playful, cross-generational making in an open, flexible environment where memory becomes material, and story becomes structure. All materials are provided. Participants are encouraged, but not required, to bring photocopies of images and photos to weave into the artwork. Let's share space and creativity in this fun workshop facilitated by local artist Kweli Kitwana.
All ages welcome, 5+ (adult supervision required for children 10 and under).
Date: Sunday, May 24, 12-2 pm
Registration: RSVP at Eventbrite
Free + Sliding Scale!
Your contribution helps keep these events accessible for everyone, and covers our material costs!! Please email [email protected] if you have any questions.
About the Artist:
Kweli Kitwana is a multidisciplinary artist, cultural worker, and memory-keeper committed to disrupting patterns of erasure through mixed media and archival reclamation. She transforms vintage photographs and found materials into layered sites of dignity, resistance, and ancestral honoring.
Working with collage, cyanotype, onion skin paper, and self-mixed natural pigments, she creates textured pieces that reclaim images separated from their original context and restore presence to the lives within them. Her current body of work, *Liberation Through the Lens*, retrieves photographs of African Americans circulating in online marketplaces and recontextualizes them as acts of care, reverence, and liberation.
The workshop is supported by Ava Community Energy and Berkeley Commonplace.
ABOUT BERKELEY ART CENTER
Berkeley Art Center (BAC) is a hub for artistic exploration and community building that champions work by Bay Area artists and curators. Located in Live Oak Park in North Berkeley, we make contemporary art approachable at an intimate scale while serving diverse communities through exhibitions and artist-conceived events, workshops, and programs. Since its founding in 1967, BAC has exhibited work by important local figures such as Enrique Chagoya, Mildred Howard, Hung Liu, Jim Melchert, Taraneh Hemami, Lava Thomas, and David Huffman and Carrie Mae Weems, among others.
Berkeley Art Center contact: Gisela Insuaste, [email protected], office: (510) 644-6893
Where is it happening?
Berkeley Art Center, 1275 Walnut Street, Berkeley, United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
USD 0.00 to USD 17.85
