Makeshift Meditations

Date:

closed world redux as part of Makeshift Mediations
Tuesday, March 4, 2025 | 1pm-5:30pm

Location:

Blaffer Art Museum

Format:

11am                    Part I: closed world redux: Exercise in Grief

1pm                      Part II: closed world redux: Exercise in Memory/Memorialization

2pm-4pm        Poetry Workshop, Makeshifting Lines (ft. Anisah Khan)

3pm-4pm        Drop-in Guided Tour

4pm-5pm        Meditation, Softening into Stillness (ft. Angel Schroder) in James Webb: Prayer (Houston)

5pm-5:30pm     Post event Light Snack

Details

2-4pm

Makeshifting Lines led by Anisah Khan is a poetry workshop that welcomes everyone who has a love for poetry and art, regardless of experience. Drawing inspiration from the work on view and the prompts featured in the exhibition brochure, we will craft the beginnings of a poem. The goal is to leave with a makeshift of lines—rather than a finished poem—that communicates your emotional state through inspiration into beautiful lines of poetry. After all, writing a poem takes deep reflection and time. After viewing the exhibit and writing our rough drafts, we will meet as a group and share ideas on how to enhance our lines, build our visions up to a poem, and learn craft techniques.

Anisah Khan is a UH senior majoring in English, with a minor in psychology. She is a published writer, researcher, and aspiring Counseling Psychologist for youth with disabilities. Her essay, “Narrating the Spectrum,” was recognized as the 2023 Non-Fiction winner in the Alexandra L. Rowan Memorial Foundation Writing Competition. In addition to her creative pursuits, Khan, as a PURS scholar and FrameWorks Fellow, has researched the significance of partition literature for contemporary South Asian communities and continues her research in Special Education. In her free time, Anisah creates acrylic paintings of landscapes she pictures in her mind.

3:00-4:00pm

Drop-in Guided Tours of Makeshift Memorials, Small Revolutions with Blaffer Art Museum Educators

4:00-5:00pm

Meditation, Softening into Stillness led by Angel Schroder (Healing Artist and Guide) is a collective pause to gently release resistance, embrace silence as nourishment, and to settle into a deep relationship with our breath. This guided meditation invites stillness, expands perspective, and reminds us of our profound interconnection

Angel Schroder, MA, MT-BC Angel Rose (they/them) is a certified Music Therapist, Healing Artist & Guide, and Yoga Instructor, passionate about facilitating transformative experiences through sound, movement, color, and breath. Their work is grounded in creating spaces for reflection, connection, and self-compassion, helping others navigate life with more flow and ease. Angel’s highest intention is to guide individuals in deepening their love for themselves and the world around them.

5:00-5:30pm

Join us for a post-event snack, light bites