This session will draw on the Black feminist themes in Gary and Cox’s work and will employ techniques such as conscious breathing, guided meditation, free-form and structured writing, and movement. Participants will work individually and collectively to identify the sustainable practices they can incorporate into their daily lives as consistent acts of self-reclamation.

This session is part of a three-part series conceived by Aimee Meredith Cox with the intention of exploring the relationship between art-making and somatic practice as a generative process for collectively imagining and embodying new worlds. Part two will take place in the summer of 2024 and will focus on the work of LaToya Ruby Frazier. Part three will take place in the fall of 2024 and will focus on the work of Otobong Nkanga.

This series 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.

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.