Re-forming Memory :: Re-forming Futures

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VISUAL STORYTELLING WORKSHOP  19.01.2025 12:00–14:00
With  Alan Pelaez Lopez
Languages  The workshop takes place in English and Spanish
FREE ENTRY  Donations welcome
ACCESS  Our space is accessible by wheelchair

PARTICIPATION The workshop is open to all. If you are interested in joining us, kindly send an email with subject line "Memory" to workshop@savvy-contemporary.com.

We cordially invite you to a collage-making workshop with our current resident Alan Pelaez Lopez. The collage artist, poet, activist, and scholar will lead us through a workshop where we think about what memories we want to keep from our past, the memories we want to create in the future, and how we can insist on a more gorgeous world. Please bring photographs of your loved ones and/or yourself as a child, or email them to us to print in advance at workshop@savvy-contemporary.com. Other collage materials will be provided by SAVVY. 

Alan Pelaez Lopez born 1993 in Mexico, is a transdisciplinary artist and writer whose work addresses the legal conditions of forced migration and land dispossession in North America. Pelaez Lopez has recently exhibited collages, installations, and intervention art at Harvard University’s Art Wing, Galerija Škuc, EFA Project Space, and in public spaces. They are a recipient of a Brown University Art Practitioner Fellowship, a Museum of the African Diaspora poet-in-residence position, and a New York University Miriam Jiménez Román fellowship. 

Pelaez Lopez is the author of Intergalactic Travels: poems from a fugitive alien (The Operating System, 2020), a finalist for the International Latino Book Award, to love and mourn in the age of displacement (Nomadic Press, 2020), and the editor of When Language Broke Open: An Anthology of Queer and Trans Black Writers of Latin American Descent (University of Arizona, 2023).

They are also an assistant professor at the University of California, Davis, and holding a PhD.