Collaging with … Helina Metaferia and Teri Henderson

To accompany Multiplicity: Blackness in Contemporary American Collage, The Phillips Collection presents a dynamic artist-led adult series exploring the depth of collaging followed by a reception with the artist. Each Sunday from August 4-September 1, an internationally renowned artist will share their unique creative process and lead the participants in the creation of an artwork. Each session highlights a different form of collaging. Materials included. All levels welcome.

Helina Metaferia Workshop

This program will feature a conversation between artist Helina Metaferia and Baltimore-based curator and art critic Teri Henderson, along with an interactive, experimental writing component. Centered around the theme of community organizing, which is the foundation of Helina’s artistic practice, the event will consider world building as a method for collaging. 

Read more about Helina’s artistic process and upcoming workshop

Read more about Teri Henderson and her @blackcollagists community

About Helina Metaferia

Helina Metaferia’s solo exhibitions and projects include Museum of African Diaspora, San Francisco, CA (2024 and 2017); Center for Book Arts, New York, NY (2024); RISD Art Museum, Providence, RI (2022-2023); and Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA (2021-2022). Her work was in the 2023 Sharjah Biennial, United Arab Emirates. Group exhibitions include ICA San Francisco, CA (2023); Frist Art Museum, Nashville, TN (2023); The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, MD (2023); Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit, MI (2019); and Modern Art Museum Gebre Kristos Desta Art Center, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (2019). Her work is in the permanent collection of institutions including Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; and KADIST, Paris, France. Metaferia received her MFA from Tufts University’s School of the Museum of Fine Arts and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Her work has been written about in publications including The New York Times, Financial Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, Artnet News, and The Art Newspaper. She is an Assistant Professor at Brown University in the Visual Art department, and lives and works in New York City. 

About Teri Henderson

Teri Henderson (b. Fort Worth, Texas, 1990) is a Baltimore-based independent curator, Baltimore Beat’s Arts and Culture Editor, and the author of Black Collagists: The Book. Henderson holds a Bachelor of Science in Psychology from Texas Christian University. She formerly had a curatorial internship at Ghost Gallery in Seattle, Washington. In 2020, Henderson started an Instagram account called @blackcollagists. This platform features the work of emerging and established collage artists to raise awareness about the history of Black collage art. Black Collagists: The Book, published in 2021, is a physical record of her research. Henderson focuses her work as a writer and curator on Black artists and creatives. In 2024, she served as a consulting curator for the acclaimed exhibition New Worlds: Women to Watch 2024 at the National Museum of Women in the Arts. In 2023, she served as a jury member for the exhibition Histories Collide: Jackie Milad x Fred Wilson x Nekisha Durrett at the Baltimore Museum of Art. In addition to her curatorial work, she is a contributing editor for Plastikcomb Magazine, and her writing has appeared in numerous publications, including Artforum, BmoreArt, Justsmile Magazine, Kinfolk Travel, and the St. James Encyclopedia of Hip Hop Culture.

IMAGE: Helina Metaferia, Headdress 61 (Part of By Way of Revolution series), 2023, Mixed media collage, 96 x 48 in., Courtesy of the artist, © Helina Metaferia