Join Lakesha Calvin, one of the artists featured in In Her Place: Nashville Artists in the Twenty-First Century, to explore how memory and experience can be translated into meaningful visual narratives. In this workshop, participants will learn techniques for combining imagery, text, and texture to visually reflect their own lived experiences. Drawing in part from Calvin’s personal journey of healing, the workshop invites participants to share stories, experiment with cutting and pasting, and engage in intuitive, expressive processes.
About Lakesha Calvin
Lakesha Calvin serves as discipline coordinator and assistant professor in Fisk University’s Art Department, and formerly served as the gallery coordinator at the Carl Van Vechten Gallery. She believes strongly in mentorship, youth empowerment and telling one’s story. Her work has been shown at the Parthenon, Vanderbilt’s Black Cultural Center, Fisk University, Tennessee State University, Centennial Arts Center and in St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands. She says: “At the center of my work are ideas of identity, memory, and belonging. Through figurative work and layered landscapes of color and form, we confront ourselves, what we perceive and what is unknown.”
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