Join us to meet and learn more about Self as Universe residents, Lue Palmer & Rochelle Jamila. They’ll give  short presentations on their work and will be followed by a light dinner and refreshments on Thursday, October 3rd, 6:30pm – 9:00-pm.

Lue Palmer is an environmental journalist and writer of fiction on Black relationships to nature, the fantastic in the everyday, and the retelling of history. During their residency, Palmer will write the final third of the novel, where Patience’s descendants fight for the fictional town of Augustine, Louisiana — once a safe haven for down-low queers — as industrial development threatens to erase them from the map.

Rochelle Jamila is a Brooklyn based interdisciplinary artist, dancer, folk herbalist, shapeshifter, and womb/ birth worker hailing from Oka Nashoba or Memphis, Tennessee. During her residency, Rochelle will continue her exploration of the blues and musical traditions of the Mississippi delta begun in her recent work Testimony.

Click here to RSVP. Registration is required. Parking will be on Patterson Rd. outside of A Studio in the Woods campus at visitor’s own risk. Event may be outside, please wear enclosed shoes and dress accordingly.