Shaking the Table: Beauty of the Week Collage Workshop

Join Qiaira Riley and Yannick Lowery for the second installment in their reality-TV and Black pop culture inspired creative workshop + supper series, Shaking the Table! This collage workshop will include the opportunity to create works using imagery from Jet Magazine's Beauty of the Week segment. All materials will be provided, but participants are encouraged to bring their own personal image sources.

About Shaking the Table

Shaking the Table is a series of interdisciplinary workshops and community meals exploring our collective and personal relationships to Black ephemera, popular culture, and reality television through art-making and food. Each event includes an interactive activity and dialogue encouraging participants to theoretically explore themes of identity, family, gender and deviance by analyzing iconic depictions from magazines, television, and film. During our time together we offer meals, inspired by memorable scenes from reality tv that uplift the activity’s theme. We’d hope that each activity will build on the revelations from the previous one, while allowing neighbors to build deeper bonds with one another. This work is supported by Barnes West Everyday Places Partnership at hosted at the Art League (4226 Spruce Street)

About Barnes West Everyday Places Artist Partnerships

Everyday Places Artist Partnerships highlight the intersection of art and community and create spaces where residents can participate in art experiences in their neighborhood. This year, social impact artists will once again partner with “everyday” places in West Philadelphia—including local businesses and community organizations—to create interactive projects that engage with the spaces and their neighbors.

Host or Publisher Qiaira Riley