Zakiya Collier

2025 Create Change Residency
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Zakiya Collier is an Afro-Carolinian archivist, memory worker, and educator. Her research explores archival practices that account for the material conditions of Black and Indigenous life and the role of cooperative thought in the sustainability of cultural memory. Their recent work includes leading The Black Memory Workers group, co-producing the forthcoming film Somebody’s Gone, being a member of the New Museum’s New INC Incubator 2023-24 (Year 10) Cooperative Studies Track, serving as the first Digital Archivist at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, and Co-Editing a special double issue of The Black Scholar on Black Archival Practice.

Open Studio

Wednesday, October 15

6:30- 7:45 pm

Location: To Be Announced

Zakiya Collier – Open Studio

Collective Remembrance: For the Art of Preserving Bed-Stuy Restoration History

Join us for Zakiya’s Open Studio!

In an ever-changing Brooklyn, Collective Remembrance expands the documentation of and access to histories of Central Brooklyn and its Black Communities by preservation the archives stewarded by the Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation (Restoration) community. Using an intergenerational and creative, collective archival approach that directly fosters and resources relationships between Restoration’s key elders and community and local Black archivists and memory workers, this project shares and documents Black Brooklyn history, strengthens the Black memory work ecosystem, and uplifts the contributions that have nurtured Brooklyn’s character, art, culture, and sustainability. Participants will center their stories and be supported in the stewardship of their histories through oral histories, archival training workshops, a co-curated exhibition, public panels, and a preserved digital archive.

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