Silver Eye

This workshop is an activation of FIERCE: Pittsburgh, an exhibition of thirteen portraits by British photographer Ajamu X that celebrates individuals shaping the city’s contemporary Black queer culture and situates them within an evolving global archive.

In celebration of this exhibition, this workshop is an invitation to alter/altar self-portraits in honor of one's own fierceness.

All are welcome, you don't have to identify as an artist or be experienced in collage or mixed media art to join us!

Please bring a headshot of yourself (ideally 5x7 and b&w) to the workshop. Materials and light refreshments provided.

Registration below is free but space is limited to twenty-five participants to facilitate meaningful connection and participation.

Silver Eye is grateful to our community partners Rainbow Serpent, the Black Unicorn Library and Archive Project, Dreams of Hope, and Assemble for making this workshop possible.

Image credit: Bekezela Mguni, Self-portrait, 2026

Participating Artists

1. Almah LaVon (theyy/themme) is the mixed media mail artist behind Three Rivers Postal Social, Postcards for the People, and many other participatory art shenanigans. Theyy are also a member of the Rainbow Serpent Collective.

2. Bekezela Mguni s a queer Trinidadian artist, radical librarian, and educator. She has over 15 years of community organizing experience in the Reproductive Justice movement and holds an MLIS from the University of Pittsburgh. Mguni is the founder of the Black Unicorn Library and Archive Project which cultivates libraries as sites of learning, possibility, and freedom celebrating the literary and artistic contributions of Black women, queer, Trans, non-binary, and gender-nonconforming people. She also serves as the Education Program Director at Dreams of Hope which affirms the voices and leadership of LGBTQ youth through the arts.