Archival Grounds: Collage Workshop II

​AltaHeirloom + Perennial Memory Lab present Archival Grounds: Collage Workshop

​Bring your own photos and join us for the final collage workshop of our series! Through the practice of collage, we're able to consider alternative ways to memory-work and imagination. Cienna and Kenn will guide you in a hands-on mixed material collage practice composed of native plants, print clippings, and media from your personal archives. Everyone will compose their own collage and come away with the resources to shape a continuing collage practice and archival stewardship.

​​Kennedy Arnette is an archival worldbuilder, interactive designer, and communal educator who embraces placemaking as a form of ethical coalition building. Using culturally intuitive strategies, Kennedy works to support Black people and the historically dispossessed as we recover our legacies to live in greater relationship with change. Born and raised (primarily) in Los Angeles, themes of housing justice, food sovereignty, and self-determination inform Kennedy’s unique archival practice. The founding of Perennial Memory Lab is an extension of this grassroots pedagogy for new-world histories.

​​Cienna Benn is a writer, archival practitioner and artist from Altadena, CA. Through her work, she cares for Black aesthetic sensibilities by lifting the collections of radical visual artists and art movements. Inspired by matters of identity and image-making, her practice considers the complexities of migration and intergenerational memory expressed through collective cultural work, photography, oral history, and vernacular archives. She stewards AltaHeirloom, a grassroots, digital collection of surviving archives from Black homes in Altadena.

​​This event was supported by the Teaching, Learning, and Campus Life Committee & Co-Sponsored by the Community Engagement Center and The Pitzer College Art Galleries.