Friday, February 13, 2026, 12:30 – 2pm EST
A World in Fragments, a Collaging Workshop with Leniqueca WelcomeIn this workshop, led by Leniqueca Welcome, we will explore collaging as a poet(h)ical visual research practice. Like the poem, the collage breaks open both the normative form and narrative logic of the realist image, instead building an abstract world from fragments rich with multiple meanings and feelings. Collaging is particularly useful in anthropological research, allowing the composer to render the beauty, pain, complexity, and relationality of encountered life without presenting a transparent linear picture of a person that could be simply consumed by audiences. Mimicking Welcome’s ethnographic method, participants will be invited to engage in a short life story listening exercise, after which they will create their own paper collage that reflects their engagement and embraces ambiguity and excess. Space is limited and registration required. All materials provided.
About Leniqueca WelcomeLeniqueca Welcome is a visual artist and an Assistant Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs at The George Washington University. She is currently working on her monograph, Come Out of This World: Postcolonial Statecraft and Antiblack Policing in Trinidad.