This family-friendly workshop invites participants to explore creative rituals through conversation, making, and shared storytelling. No prior art experience is needed.

Participants are encouraged to bring one or two small, meaningful objects from their personal lives—items that hold memories, stories, or everyday significance. Drawing inspiration from the daily practices of writer Octavia Butler and other creatives, the group will explore how collecting, organizing, and revisiting objects can become a creative practice.

Through guided activities and discussion, participants will reflect on how they can use routine, repetition, and personal archives to generate ideas and make meaning from everyday life. Families and individuals will leave with new ways to think about creativity, memory, and the objects we choose to keep.

This workshop is designed for adults and youth ages 12+, and all families and individuals are welcome.

About the Artist

Nic[o] Brierre Aziz (he/him) is a Haitian-New Orleanian interdisciplinary artist and curator born and raised in New Orleans, LA. His practice often engages themes of history, pop culture and satire while centering narratives of the Caribbean and Southern United States. He has worked extensively leading community based projects throughout New Orleans with entities such as the Office of Mayor Mitch Landrieu, Antenna, the Arts Council of New Orleans, Prospect and the New Orleans Museum of Art. His work has been featured by numerous publications including The Oxford American, The Associated Press, and Burnaway and he has written for sites such as HuffPost and Hyperallergic. He has also been the recipient of several artist residencies and fellowships including an Andy Warhol Foundation Curatorial Fellow, a Joan Mitchell Center Artist-in-Residence and most recently an Art Matters Foundation Fellow. He currently serves as an artist educator for the Dia Art Foundation’s Durational Pedagogies Fellowship. He obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree from Morehouse College, a Master of Science degree from The University of Manchester (UK) and most recently a Master of Fine Arts degree with a concentration in Sculpture from the Yale University School of Art.