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 a Bachelor of Science in public health from Eastern Illinois University and is an alumna of Candler School of Theology. She served as the 2023 Artist-Scholar in Residence at the Center for Black Visual Culture at New York University. Hersey is the author of the New York Times-bestselling book Rest is Resistance: A Manifesto (Little, Brown Spark, 2022) and The Nap Ministry’s Rest Deck: 50 Practices to Resist Grind Culture (Chronicle, 2023). Learn more about her work at thenapministry.com.

Date:  September 25, 2023

Time:  6:30PM – 8:00PM EST

Location: 20 Cooper Square 3rd Floor New York, NY 10003