Tue, Mar 31
|Webinar
Welcome Table Talk - I Know a Place: Black Women Artists Imagine Sanctuary
with Ashunda Norris and Desiree Cooper, moderated by Opal Moore
Time & Location
Mar 31, 2026, 6:00 PM CDT
Webinar
About the event
Join us for the next Welcome Table Talk - I Know a Place: Black Women Artists Imagine Sanctuary with Ashunda Norris and Desiree Cooper. Moderated by Opal Moore.
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Ashunda Norris is a Black feminist multidisciplinary artist with creative work that encompasses film, poetry, archiving and her own theoretical frameworks. Her art is preoccupied with ancestral inheritance, Black womxnhood as a freedom site, futuristic maroon expressions and fugitivity. She has written, directed and produced several films, including her most recent multi-award-winning cinematic project, MINO: A Diasporic Myth; now streaming on kweliTV. A California Arts Council Individual Artist Fellow, Ashunda’s art has been supported by Cave Canem, Torch Literary Arts, Tin House, the Hurston/Wright Foundation, and more. She is a two-time Furious Flower Poetry Prize finalist, a Pushcart Prize nominee and one of 15 filmmakers selected for ARRAY’s Haile…