Name: Art as Ancestry: Memory and Legacy Workshop with Aliana Grace Bailey
Start: 2026-02-25T18:00:00-05:00
End: 2026-02-25T20:30:00-05:00
Location: Notre Dame of Maryland University

Join us for an evening of reflection, care, and conversation in connection with RIWTCM, curated by Jasmine Gabrielle Washington.
About this Event

Art as Ancestry: Memory and Legacy Workshop with Aliana Grace Bailey

This workshop invites participants into a gentle practice of remembering and making. Drawing from Aliana's fiber art practice and her work around ancestral healing, participants will explore how creative expression holds memory, legacy, and cultural healing. Through guided reflection and soft bundle-making, we'll tend to the invisible wealth passed down through our lineages—the gestures, survival strategies, and acts of care that resist measurement but sustain life. Participants will leave with a soft keeper, a tangible reminder of what they choose to carry forward and embody.

About the Exhibition

Rich in What They Can’t Measure examines value beyond systems that rely on visibility, productivity, and quantification. The exhibition brings together artists whose practices center care, labor, intimacy, interiority, and inherited knowledge—forms of wealth that resist easy measurement yet sustain life, culture, and community.

The exhibition is the first public program under Use Your Voice (UYV), a philanthropic cultural platform centering humankind across difference, beyond dominant systems of value and measurement. Rich in What They Can’t Measure is envisioned as an annual offering, beginning from the lived experiences and perspectives of Black women.

Historically, Black life has been assessed through extractive frameworks that flatten complexity and render care invisible. This exhibition pushes against those logics, asking what becomes possible when worth is understood through presence rather than proof, relationship rather than output, and endurance rather than efficiency.

Across photography, video, painting, installation, and material gesture, the works gathered here attend to the body and assert voice as archive and infrastructure. They honor acts of holding, carrying, tending, remembering, and refusing—gestures often dismissed as informal or immeasurable, yet foundational to survival and self-determination.

Rich in What They Can’t Measure invites viewers to listen rather than categorize, to slow down and sit with complexity, and to recognize forms of abundance that exist beyond institutional recognition.

Here, richness is not spectacle.

It is care.

It is voice.

It is what remains when measurement fails.