My Work Featured in UWI’s Graduate Seminar on Black Feminist Art and the Creative Imagination

I'm honored to share that my collage work will be part of an upcoming graduate seminar hosted by The University of the West Indies (UWI), Cave Hill Campus. On Wednesday, July 30, 2025, cultural studies PhD candidate Bianca Moña will present “Space and the Creative Imagination,” a research-driven talk exploring how Black women artists reimagine the natural world as a site of refuge, power, and creative possibility.

My work will be discussed alongside that of fellow artist Dominique Hunter as part of this exploration into how visual practices cultivate presence, rest, and rootedness. The presentation draws on collage as a visual language of emotional and cultural mapping, and examines how creative acts can sustain and nourish individual and collective identities.

Being the subject of academic inquiry is both humbling and affirming. My collage practice has long centered the interiority and lived experience of Black women—work grounded in abstraction, gesture, and a commitment to making visible what often remains unseen. To know that these themes resonate within a scholarly context is a reminder that visual languages carry weight, insight, and significance beyond the studio or exhibition wall.

Bianca’s seminar topic aligns closely with my own motivations across several bodies of work, including Moonlight Blues and My Girls. These series hold space for tenderness, solitude, and belonging. They are deeply concerned with what it means to rest, to resist, and to reclaim space through artistic process.

The seminar takes place on Wednesday, July 30, 2025, from 10:00–11:30 a.m. AST via Zoom and is hosted by the Faculty of Culture, Creative & Performing Arts at UWI. It's free and open to the public.

Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/95687857424

Thank you to Bianca Moña and the Department of Cultural Studies for including my work in this conversation. If you’re interested in Black feminist art, cultural studies, or the role of imagination in visual storytelling, this seminar is one to watch.