Tricia Hersey Artists Scholar in Residence Welcome Reception
Center for Black Visual Culture Join us this Monday, September 25th to welcome Tricia Hersey (@thenapministry ), the Fall 2023 Artist-Scholar in Residence at the Center for Black Visual Culture! The evening will feature readings and remarks from the CBVC team, CBVC partners, and Tricia Hersey. Tricia Hersey has over 20 years of experience as a multidisciplinary artist, writer, theologian and community organizer. She is a Chicago native who has called Atlanta home for 12 years. Hersey is the founder of The Nap Ministry, the originator of the “rest as resistance” and “rest as reparations” frameworks, and creates sacred spaces where the liberatory, restorative, and disruptive power of rest can take hold. Her work is seeded within the soils of Black radical thought, somatics, Afrofuturism, womanism, and Black liberation theology, and is a guide for how to collectively deprogram, decolonize, and unravel ourselves from the wreckage of capitalism and white supremacy. Hersey holds...


