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You want to spice things up break from“how you’ve always done things.”
You believe sharing your experience in community of peers is a meaningful way to spend time.
Visual Voice is a multi-week cohort-based professional development program that blends art history, a community-based studio practice, and group coaching with the creative medium of collage.
This installment of Visual Voice explores how Black artists have used creative practice to reimagine history, release grief, and transform pain into possibility.
Through collage, creative writing, and the study of Kerry James Marshall, Betye Saar, and Kara Walker, participants are invited into a space of self-inquiry through a Black diasporic lens. Together, we’ll use art as a tool to honor what’s been lost and imagine what comes next.
🖼️ No prior art experience required.
LAST DAY TO ENROLL: MAY 10th
Expect a creative practice that blends art history lessons and solo-work with a community learning space.
Over five weeks, you'll explore how collage, writing, and group coaching can help you expand your creativity and next steps.
Michaela Ayers (she/her) is an art historian, facilitator, and interdisciplinary social practice artist who works across clay, collage, and place-based storytelling. Her work activates the rituals and various forms of nourishment that enrich our lives.
As founder of Nourish—an experiential‑learning studio—she has spent nine years delivering workshops and immersive events that invite people to embody creative leadership and reimagine the way they work together.
Rooted in the Black American traditions of cooperation and community organizing, Michaela is also the creator and host of Black Her Stories (BHS), a platform that celebrates the creative power of Black women--past and present. Through a podcast, essays, and community events, BHS elevates narratives that stimulate the radical imagination and explore liberatory ways Black communities care for one another and Mother Earth.
You can learn more about Michaela and her work here.
Weekly Instructor-Led Workshops & Open Studio Space,
Live sessions facilitated by an experienced practitioners with a trauma-informed approach.
Curated Art Supplies
A curated package of images, mixed media, and creative tools delivered to your door—designed to inspire joy and ease in your practice.
Build Community Through Creativity
Cultivate connections through a social art practice designed to spark meaningful conversation and build relationships
“If you have ever felt like you’re in a rut in any part of your life take this course. It will shake things up in your mind and body. It may even help you remember parts of yourself that you’ve been disconnected from and discover things about your perspective and your inner world that you didn’t know existed.”
“This course gave me the space to rediscover who I am—visually—outside of work mode. It helped me access a core part of myself I hadn’t touched in almost 40 years, and inspired collages that feel like visual poetry.
Doing this in a supportive, welcoming community—where everyone’s creativity inspired one another—was incredibly special.”
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