Dear Black Queer Artist, There is Space for You Here with Ariel Collier
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Dear Black Queer Artist, There is Space for You Here is an invitation to the conception of Home Studio. Currently, Home Studio is a ubiquitous space dedicated to the empowerment, promotion and development of queer and trans artists of colour.
Ubiquitous means found everywhere. Home Studio aims to be found anywhere where queer POC artists are found, to travel with the artist it touches and provide a sense of belonging to all of its participants. In order to serve this purpose Collier's aim is to intimately know and understand what queer and trans POC artists desire and need so that Home Studio as a project can organise their fulfilment.
In this workshop Collier will create an intimate environment by sharing her practice through performance and the facilitation of self-delegated playful discussion. Through the process of making, participants will illustrate and paint what their needs are on a shared canvas, giving voice and materiality to how they would like to catalyse Home Studio as a space to empower, promote and develop their practice amongst other queer artists of colour.
By the end of the workshop we will be able to visually see where our needs and desires overlap and the opportunity to help each other meet them collectively.
Ariel Collier is a multifaceted artist, facilitator, and curator dedicated to empowering and promoting queer and trans artists of colour. Collier's artistic practice spans photography, crochet, digital art, and creative writing, exploring themes of safety, community and the hidden histories of liberation movements, all in efforts to build more inclusive spaces. By bringing together various aspects of home into the public sphere, Collier’s practice seeks to discover how art practice can be used to create spaces through the process of generating art itself.
Collier holds a BA in Visual Arts and Emerging Media Management from the University of Central Florida, a MA in History of Art and Archeology from SOAS, and is a PhD candidate in Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths. Their work has been featured in various publications and exhibitions such as PRIM Black, Studio Volitaire, CasilidArt, City Arts Factory, and more. In her work life she has championed many causes through roles as a project manager for various charities, most notably the Florida Prison Education Project where she tackled the School to Prison Pipeline with arts based learning, talks and exhibitions.
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