Join us Friday, May 9th from 6-8:30 for a free poetry workshop led by akeylah wellington! This workshop will respond to the themes in our current exhibition, rooted in themes of abolition through the lens of acrostic & concrete poetry.

akeylah wellington is a sculptor and tapestry maker based in Columbus, Ohio. Her work is concerned with humor as both a noun connoting comedy and a verb meaning to endure. Working with found media from the 2000s, her attention to technological and political developments is an attempt to make sense of her personal experience of carceral-related displacement, loss, girlhood, generational inheritances, and time. Her work has been shown nationally, but most notably at Wassaic Project (Wassaic, NY), Ferrara Showman Gallery (New Orleans, LA), and Dream Clinic Project Space (Columbus, OH). She works as a Lecturer in the Department of Art at The Ohio State University.