Join us on Wednesday, June 3 at 6:30pm with Self as Universe Resident yrécha gay jheanell as they discuss their work and their Self as Universe Residency project.

Dinner and refreshments will be served. You can RSVP here!

yrécha gay jheneall is a transdisciplinary fluid artist born and raised in Jamaica. Now living in New Orleans, Louisiana, their creative practice considers Afro-Caribbean people’s movement, memories, and homemaking rituals as practice toward a liberatory consciousness. They have participated in the group exhibition wata ways, at the Alabama Contemporary Arts Center in Mobile, LA and Le sanctuaire at UNO St. Claude Gallery. yrécha earned their MFA in Interdisciplinary Studio Arts at the University of New Orleans and is currently employed as the Artist-Centered Program Associate at the Joan Mitchell Center in New Orleans, LA.

Gen)d(re is a multidisciplinary project that integrates performance, community workshops, and engagement culminating into an immersive installation and collective participation. Centering themes of fluidity in gender and sonic expressions, the project explores sound and movement as transformative elements of identity and cultural memory.