Family Time: Collaging Fabric With Artist Laurel Richardson
FAMILY TIME: FABRIC COLLAGING
WITH ARTIST LAUREL RICHARDSON
Saturday, March 14 • 1–3PM • For All Ages
At The Bronx Museum (1040 Grand Concourse)
Free! Drop In (no RSVP is needed to participate)
On one Saturday afternoon every month, The Bronx Museum offers a free and fun art-making activity led by Museum Educators and sometimes by exhibiting artists! Activities are inspired by our current exhibition and designed to be fun for all ages while also accessible to young children and their caregivers.
For the program on Saturday, March 14, we are delighted to host artist Laurel Richardson! Richardson’s beautiful work, Safe Passage (2026), is currently on view in our exhibition The Seventh AIM Biennial: Forms of Connection. Additional exhibiting artists will also be offering opportunities to engage with them and their work in the coming months. Subscribe to our email newsletter for updates!
Richardson has titled her March 14th program, “Sites of Remembrance: Activating the Visual Griot.” Drawing inspiration from Richardson’s work Safe Passage, Program participants will create individual collaged fabric hangings that reflect shared stories and memories, which will then be installed collectively in the space. This will culminate in a temporary installation and monument of shared and collective stories. Audience members will then be encouraged to serve as “griots” (a West African term referring to a traditional role of troubadour-historians), sharing their stories, poems, readings, or songs as they reflect on these expressions through collage.
No RSVP is needed; just drop by the Museum to participate!
Questions? Please email education@bronxmuseum.org
*Groups of any size organized privately and through a school, community center, or other entity must register through our Group Tours form at least one week in advance of their visit. Due to capacity limitations, groups are not engaged through this program. Thank you for understanding.
Image Credit: Portrait of artist Laurel Richardson with her artwork Safe Passage (2026) at The Bronx Museum, Photo by Argenis Apolinario.
About Laurel Richardson
My work journeys through thoughts and stories of the past, present, and future. I am charting my family lineage, collective histories, and cultural memory of the African Diaspora while also questioning the visibility, value, and historical representations of bodies of color, particularly Black women. I do this while reflecting on ideas of emergence, power, and resilience. Through painting, installation, and elements of performance, I produce an interwoven surface of ideas and histories. Using dye, acrylic washes, and oil paint, my work loosely references African American quilting, inspired by my ancestors and West African textiles, including the Ghanaian process of batik. Through material explorations of hybridity and direct community engagement, the work creates a portal between disparate spaces and speculative futures, where belonging and not belonging must learn to find their way.
