Threading Memories: Words & Photos

⏰ 2/17-3/24, Tuesdays, 6-8pm Eastern Time over Zoom
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CAO Collective’s co-parent huiyin zhou is teaching a 6-week workshop series, Threading Memories: Words & Photos. Participants are asked to bring at least 3-6 physical photos from personal/family archives (or found images), along with a guiding question related to memory.

Through generative prompts, hands-on exercises, and mixed-media experimentation, participants will craft personal stories using both words and photographs. Students will look closely at artists whose work interweaves personal writing with photography, engaging topics such as queer kinship, diaspora, ancestry, grief, memory, social justice, & others shaped by student interest.

About the Instructor

huiyin zhou (徽音) is a writer, artist and educator working at the intersection of photography, personal writing, and social practice. Drawing from community organizing and documentary-based art, huiyin’s work centers memory, diaspora, queer kinship, and collective healing. Their teaching emphasizes accessible, intentional, and community-rooted approaches to personal archiving and mixed-media storytelling.

huiyin has taught workshops at BRIC Brooklyn, Artspace, Squeaky Wheel, Pratt Institute, University of Oklahoma, University of California Irvine, AWID Global Feminist Forum,
and more.

This class is offered via Duke’s Center for Documentary Studies Continuing Education Program.