Workshop: Ulises x Lizania Cruz

Join Tufts University Art Galleries (TUAG) and Ulises for a workshop with artist and designer Lizania Cruz in conjunction with the exhibition Ulises: Assembly. As part of Cruz’s long term project Investigation of the Dominican Racial Imaginary this workshop will guide participants on ways of questioning, recontextualizing, and creating new narratives based on a selection of the project’s archive. For the past five years Cruz has been gathering archival evidence from historical archives, governmental and academic institutions, as well as on the streets with the public on how the state of the Dominican Republic has repressed and erased African heritage in the formulation of the Dominican identity. Cruz will walk participants through her relational methodology of archiving. Participants will also work on constructing a narrative of their own based on the archives. Materials will be provided.