Registration is rolling until March 31 at 11:59PM EST. No application is required (except for financial aid— Applications for financial aid are due March 29 at 5PM EST).

$250 w/financial aid available to residents of Greater Philadelphia (Bucks, Camden, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery, and Philadelphia Counties)

4 week class: Wednesdays 5-7PM EST, April 3-April 24, 2024 IN PERSON @ 6135 Germantown Avenue

This series of classes delve into the practices of bookmaking and collaging as a ritual. Throughout the exploration of these practices, students will learn how to build their own journals. Each week we will focus on a different method of bookmaking. We will implement and enhance the practice as individuals as well as a collective. The theme of this series is cultivating your own utopia. We will experiment with visuals that curate our ideologies around joy, glory, Black paradise, and more. Through discussion and artmaking, students will leave this course confident in the methods of bookmaking and collaging as a ritual for resistance as well as the ability to be able to make their own journals moving forward in their writing journeys.

Doriana Diaz is a multidimensional artist, archivist, and memory worker rooted in Philadelphia's soulful rhythms. She has hosted a wide array of collage and bookmaking workshops around the city in spaces like The Parkway Central Library, Harriett's Bookshop, Express Newark, The African American Museum, and Bok Bar. Her work explores loss, memory, fantasy, utopia, formation and identity through the archival documentations of visual imagery. Her collage work entitled 'A Declaration of Joy in Motion; Friday Night Voodoo' was chosen as the 1-year anniversary poster for Rachel Cargel's Loveland Foundation in 2021. This honor was in partnership with The Loveland Foundation and The Akron Museum of Art. She is also one of the 2023 recipients of the Black Music City grant where her collage work will be funded by REC Philly, WXPN, and WRTI 90.1 to explore her project entitled ‘Sisters in Rhythm, A House of Our Own’ cataloging and memorializing the work of Sister Sledge and The Supremes through visual storytelling. She believes art has DNA, Her work is an exploration of cultural agency, archival documentation, and rhythms of resistance and expansion.