gender/power

The Workshop

Gender/Power is a transgender and feminist led workshop series and teaching methodology offering intersectional, transformational tools that explore systems of power and their effects on our bodies. These workshops employ storytelling, mapping, and movement to question and reveal the dynamics of power in relationship to gender, identity, and body perception.

Exploring the cognitive and physical benefits of embodied somatic mindfulness and creating allyship through brave communication, this interactive and conversation-based workshop series will draw from shared stories centered around experiences of privilege, discrimination, and identity. Workshop leaders facilitate challenging conversations at the intersections of race, class, age, religion, ability, and sexuality, mapping recurring themes that become translated into a composition of gestures. This workshop cultivates radical empathy and connectivity revealing how body presentation affects everyone regardless of their identity. As seen in Art Forum + Psychology Today.

Available on site or virtually

As a single Foundation Workshop or 3-part series.

VIRTUALLY: 90 minutes for up to 60 participants
ONSITE: 3 hours for up to 20 participants

The Artists

  • Kris Grey is a New York City based gender-queer artist whose cultural work includes international curatorial projects, performance, writing, and studio production. Grey was a Fire Island Artist Residency recipient, a resident artist for the ANTI Festival for Contemporary Art in Kupoio, Finland, and a teaching artist at The International Centre for Training in the Performing Arts in Brussels, Belgium. Their latest writing, Trans*feminism: fragmenting and re-reading the history of art through a trans* perspective, written in collaboration with Jennie Klein, was published in Otherwise: Imagining Queer Feminist Art Histories. Grey earned a BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art and an MFA from Ohio University.

  • Maya Ciarrocchi is an interdisciplinary artist whose projects center on the excavation of vanished histories, Queerness, and the experience of her Ashkenazi ancestry. Ciarrocchi's work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, and she has received residencies and fellowships from the Bronx Museum of the Arts (AIM), LABA: A Laboratory for Jewish Culture, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, MacDowell, and more. Ciarrocchi has also created award-winning projection designs for dance and theater. Ciarrocchi earned an MFA from the School of Visual Arts, New York, NY, and a BFA from SUNY Purchase, Purchase, NY.