Art, Intuition & Intention: Conversation and Co-Creation with BAC Artist-in-Residence Ziedah Diata

Art, Intuition & Intention: Conversation and Co-Creation
with BAC Artist-in-Residence Ziedah Diata
Date & Time: Saturday, September 28, 2024 2 – 4PM

“Art, Intuition & Intention: Conversation and Co-Creation with Artist, Ziedah Diata” is an artist talk and guided art-making experience. Ziedah will share her views on “participatory art” as a social connector and as an activator-amplifier of the inner voice. She will guide participants through movement, breath and visualization exercises for waking up and sustaining natural, accessible intuition. Participants will create a personal, interactive art piece for working with intuition and intention-setting at home.  

This experience is designed and intended for cross-generational connection and creation. Youth, elders and everyone in between are welcome. Recommended for participants age 8 and up.  

About Ziedah
Ziedah Diata is a Brooklyn, New York-based artist, facilitator, and attorney. Since 2011, Ziedah has created participatory art experiences independently and in collaboration with cultural organizers, teachers, poets, healers and playwrights. Her work is inspired, in part, by the recurring themes that emerged in testimony during her 15 year career as an administrative law judge: harm, repair, empathy and transformation. In 2023, Ziedah left her role as Chief Administrative Law Judge for the New York State Department of State. She now explores these same themes through facilitated art-making and storytelling experiences. In 2023, Ziedah launched Bed-Stuy Drawn Together, an intergenerational art-making and story-sharing project, in collaboration with Stoop Stories and the Annual Stoops Art Crawl. Ziedah is a 2024 Laundromat Project Create Change Fellow. In addition to creating communal experiences, she also designs personal participatory art pieces for reflection, intention-setting and play.

This event is a Fall Multidisciplinary Residency Community Program. As part of a residency at BAC, we ask each artist to build and facilitate a Community Program. Community Programs are a unique opportunity for both artists-in-residence and our local community to gather, engage, and be in conversation with one another through art. Community Programs are free engagements open to the public and/or in collaboration with a local community partner