• Zoë Charlton: Permanent Change of Station, 2022; collage on wood panel and graphite, gouache, and collage on paper;courtesy of the artist.


Included with admission: Free for kids 18 and under and for one adult per child 13 and under


Gallery + Studio—Mystic Travels: Stories of Migration, Vacation, and Rest

For ages 6–12 with accompanying adult(s)

  • Workshop led by
    Fred Marque DeWitt

    Fred Marque DeWitt is a Bay Area interdisciplinary artist who makes art as a form of cultural liberation and renewal. With a degree in filmmaking from San Francisco State University and an MFA from UC Berkeley, his work incorporates painting, sculpture, filmmaking, and social practice. Dewitt is currently a lecturer at UC Berkeley and has taught both youth and adults for more than twenty years. He dreams of Afro-surreal worlds that celebrate the joy and beauty of our collective harmonious advancement.

Inspired by the work of Zoë Charlton and other artists in A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration, create a multilayered diorama composed of elements from your family’s ancestral places and your present home. Using old photos, magazine cutouts, newspaper clippings, and cut paper, create a background and add personally meaningful elements—like a California flower or your grandmother’s lace*—to the foreground. Place yourself in the scene as the storyteller. Your finished shadow-box diorama will be like a movie still or a scene in a play.

*You are encouraged to bring xeroxed copies of family photos or other significant small objects to include in your personal shadow box. If you do not, alternative materials will be provided.

About Gallery + Studio

Each of these two-part workshops integrates an interactive gallery tour with a related art project; each session lasts about an hour and a half. Sign up in the Art Lab ten minutes ahead of the session, in time to join us for the tour that starts at 11:30.

Event Accessibility

If you have any questions about accessibility or require accommodations to participate in this event, please contact us at bampfa@berkeley.edu or call us at (510) 642-1412 (during open hours) with as much advance notice as possible. More information on accessibility services.