Aimee Meredith Cox leads this Writing Club, using the exhibition Projects: Dineo Seshee Bopape—featuring Bopape’s video installation Lerato laka le a phela le a phela le a phela/My love is alive, is alive, is alive (2022)—as a shared space for writing, movement, connection, and collective remembering. This program is open to all and will provide various avenues for all-access participation. In the time we have together, we will create individual and collective movement meditations, mantras, and embodied texts that honor history and, perhaps, chart an enlivened somatic pathway for our futures.
This program is a collaboration between the Studio Museum in Harlem and MoMA.
Aimee Meredith Cox is an anthropologist, writer, movement artist, and critical ethnographer. She is currently an associate professor in the anthropology department at New York University following her appointment as an associate professor in the African American studies and anthropology departments at Yale University. Cox’s first monograph, Shapeshifters: Black Girls and the Choreography of Citizenship (2015), won the 2017 book award from the Society for the Anthropology of North America, a 2016 Victor Turner Book Prize in Ethnographic Writing, and Honorable Mention from the 2016 Gloria E. Anzaldúa Book Prize. She is also the editor of the volume Gender: Space (2018). Cox performed and toured internationally with Ailey II and the Dance Theatre of Harlem and has choreographed performances as interventions in public and private spaces in Newark, New Jersey, Philadelphia, and Brooklyn. Cox is also a yogi of many decades. Yoga is integral to her praxis and her overall research and pedagogical commitments. She leads yoga teacher trainings, as well as advanced study and continuing education workshops and retreats, around the globe.
Writing Club is an ongoing program at MoMA and part of the museum’s initiative Artful Practices for Well-Being, which offers ideas for connectedness and healing through art. At each Writing Club, a guest writer introduces different works of art and offers a series of creative prompts. The intention is to offer a calm, supportive, and welcoming environment for anyone interested in generating new writing in the company of visual art and a fellowship of writers.
Registration
Register here for Writing Club at MoMA on Friday, October 6, 2023 from 8:00 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. ET. Please note that this is an early morning program, and that space is limited.
Accessibility
American Sign Language (ASL) interpretation and CART captioning are available for public programs upon request with two weeks’ advance notice. MoMA will make every effort to provide accommodation for requests made with less than two weeks’ notice. Please contact [email protected] to make a request for these accommodations.
Experience art through writing. At each session, a guest writer will introduce different works of art and offer a series of creative writing prompts. We offer a calm, supportive, and welcoming environment for anyone interested in writing in response to art in the company of fellow writing enthusiasts. Participants will have the option, but not obligation, to share some of their new work with others. Each month, the same session will be offered twice, once in MoMA’s galleries and once online via Zoom.
Writing Club is part of the Artful Practices for Well-Being initiative, which offers ideas for connectedness and healing through art.
The Adobe Foundation is proud to support equity, learning, and creativity at MoMA.
Access and Community Programs are supported by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF).
Major funding is provided by Volkswagen of America, the Agnes Gund Education Endowment Fund for Public Programs, The Junior Associates of The Museum of Modern Art Endowment for Educational Programs, the Jeanne Thayer Young Scholars Fund, and the Annual Education Fund.