“Honoring Through Collage & Poetry” Artist Workshop with Ariel Tavares
ARIAL TAVARES
Create up to three pieces of art
Materials Provided:
Tools and materials for collaging & poetry writing
Create up to three pieces of art
Material
Tools and materials for collaging & poetry writing
Saturday, August 29th, 2026
Edward W. Kane & Martha J. Wallace Center for Black History | 17 Broadway, Newport
*Student Discounts now available $10 with valid student ID
Artist Ariel Tavares will lead this workshop held in partnership with the Jamestown Art Center.
To connect with and honor the history of God’s Little Acre and the Spirit Bundle found at Newport Historical Society – we will create a piece of art to hold memory.
Memory is a fickle thing. How do we grieve yet honor a loved one, a memory, a place, a world we were born into? How can we live afterwards? We will begin this experience with an open roundtable discussion where we will talk about who is allowed to be honored and remembered throughout history, and the ways we honor the living and dead. After our discussion we will use paper, pictures, words & poetry, and other secondhand materials to create a mixed-media collage!
Participants will leave the session with either a collaged urn of flowers, a poem, and/or an engraving. Students are able to bring photos, poems, or scraps of material to use for the experience!
By the end of this workshop, students will:
Talk about grief, honor, and memory
Experiment with collaging and poetry
Ariel Tavares is an interdisciplinary artist, community organizer, sweet treat enthusiast, and world builder. Born and raised from Providence, Rhode Island, she was sustained by a big family of cousins & pots of Cape Verdean dishes handmade by a line of heavy-handed love-filled immigrant matriarchs who shaped her work ethic, commitment to community, and love for yellow porches.