Join us for a special edition of Writing Club in conjunction with the exhibition Jack Whitten: The Messenger. The same session will be offered twice, once in MoMA’s galleries and once online via Zoom.
Jazzy Charles and Antoinette Cooper facilitate this Writing Club focusing on works by Jack Whitten currently on view in the exhibition Jack Whitten: The Messenger. Inspired by these three artists’ approaches to abstraction, we’ll explore writing and music as a means of investigating and experiencing the ineffable nature of Whitten’s work. This session will take place in-person at MoMA.
Registration
Register for the in-person session
The second session in this series takes place on Thursday, July 24, at 12:00 p.m. ET online via Zoom. If the online event is more accessible for you, please register for that session.
Jazzy Charles is an abstract figurative painter and experimental violin composer currently based in New York City. Her visual works deconstruct accepted narratives of American history through ritual and ancestral memory, while her compositions blend romantic classical music with improvisation and sonic influences from Appalachian bluegrass, spiritual jazz, and psychedelic rock.
Antoinette Cooper is a multidisciplinary poet and collective trauma facilitator whose debut poetry collection, UNRULY (2025), excavates Black women’s bodily autonomy, medical violence, and healing. As founder of Black Exhale, a nonprofit creating sanctuary spaces for the liberated Black body, Cooper explores embodied narratives and collective memory.
About Writing Club
Writing Club, an ongoing program at MoMA, is part of the Museum’s Artful Practices for Well-Being initiative, which offers ideas for connectedness and healing through art.
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