In February 2025, Black Visual Grammar will offer a series of seminars including Collage As Performance Development, Black Art History Futures, & Collage As Artistic Research. Each course utilizes collage as a tool for research, development, and knowledge transfer. Designed to compliment sociocultural and educational frameworks, seminars are flexible and can be tailored in duration, ranging from a single week to a month or an entire semester or season. Below, are descriptions of each course. For more information please contact Isaiah Lopaz here.

Collage As Performance Development : This course invites individuals working across performance disciplines—including choreography, dramaturgy, scenography, sound, and costume design— to explore collage as a technology for developing key elements of their respective practices. Participants will learn to use collage to generate narrative threads, engage with embodied research, and create visual compositions that can inform choreography, inspire scenographic designs, shape soundscapes, or support costume and set design. The course is designed to meet the interests of each participant, providing methodologies which integrate collage into diverse performance-making processes.

Black Art History Futures : Collage is central to this seminar which utilizes layered processes of study and creation to build relationships with Black art made across space, time, and mediums. This course intertwines the study of African and Afro-Diasporic artists with collage-making, using the practice of image creation to develop relationships with themes and subjects engaged by these artists. Elements of this course also include discussions, group image making sessions, and presentations. Gallery, museum, and studio visits, will correspond with and support core components of this seminar.

Collage As Artistic Research : Designed for individuals across art, education, and research-based disciplines, this course positions collage as a dynamic tool for critical thinking and inquiry. Participants will learn to develop relationships with research questions through processes of collage and image-making, group collaborative queries, and presentations, cultivating new ways of thinking about and articulating complex ideas. In this seminar, collage emerges as both a method of creating compelling standalone works and as a means of inspiring broader research frameworks, adaptable across diverse fields and .