Antoinette Cooper facilitates this month’s Writing Club, “Embodied Narratives: Memory in Motion,” exploring the powerful artworks in Gallery 520: Jacob Lawrence and Christopher Cozier. Drawing inspiration from her forthcoming documentary poetry collection UNRULY (2025), Cooper invites participants to delve into the bodily imprints of migration, displacement, and resilience. Through embodied writing and reflection, this session will investigate how memory moves through us, shaping our understanding of self, lineage, and community across time and place. The goal is to uncover how personal, ancestral, and collective memories are held within us and expressed through art. This session takes place in person at MoMA, amid the evocative paintings that chronicle journeys across time and space.

This Writing Club is an opportunity to build community among people invested in trauma-informed practices, narrative liberation, communal healing, and creating sanctuary. The same session will be offered twice, once in MoMA’s galleries and once online via Zoom.

Registration: Register for Writing Club on Thursday, December 19, 2024

This Writing Club is part of MoMA's Artful Practices for Well-Being initiative and is open to writers of all levels.