Rest is Power is an exhibition that amplifies visual narratives of rest for global Black people. In a selection of artworks that span photography, painting and new media, the curators underscore Black rest as a radical act of resistance. In this exhibition, Dr. Joan Morgan, Kira Joy Williams and Dr. Deborah Willis explore rest as a healing modality for Black people.   Rest is Power provides an experience of liberation through visual repair. Depicted here is a small sample of the myriad ways Black people find rest while enduring the daily, multifaceted aggressions visited upon Black bodies. The exhibition is an invitation to disrupt toxic, lingering paradigms of work equaling worth, reminding us that the Black body’s value in the “new” world was originally assigned, not through the lens of mutual humanity, but solely by its capacity for physical, emotional and sexual labor. In these pieces, Black Rest resists, revives and replenishes....

Center for Black Visual Culture Join artists featured in the Rest is Power exhibition for a conversation about their practices of art and rest. This roundtable is co-moderated by CBVC Scholar-in-Residence Tricia Hersey (@thenapministry ) and CBVC Director, Dr. Deborah Willis. The in-person reception will begin at 5:30 PM and the livestream and panel discussion will begin at 6 PM. Tickets for the livestream event are available in our bio. While in-person tickets are sold out, you can register to join the waitlist in our bio. Moderated by” Tricia Hersey & Dr. Deborah Willis Featured Artists: Dated Baptiste, Colette Veasey-Cullors, Adam Delphine Fawundu, Chester Higgins, Deborah Jack Date:  September 12, 2023 Time:  5:30PM - 8:00PM EST Location: 20 Cooper Square, 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10003  

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...