The Colored Girls Museum brings Urgent Care to The Colored Girl!

Tours begin at 1:l5.
URGENT CARE FOR URGENT TIMES

Greetings Family,
The Colored Girls Museum has been on a Winter Recess since November. We are thrilled to be coming on line, just in time to celebrate our one year anniversary and Womyns Herstory month with all of you.
In this iteration of A Good Nights Sleep, The Museum takes on the character of an Urgent Care facility.
Each of our rooms is curated to suggest a space one might find at a clinic, emergency room, or other healthcare facility. In this way, we lift up current concerns about the state of healthcare as it impacts the Colored Girl.
This exhibit imagines a space where health and wellness centers feel like safe and positive spaces. At the same time, we address the threat poised by the potential loss of healthcare by millions of Americans and offer an alternative conversation, one in which the community is the healer.

The world’s first museum dedicated to “Celebrating the Ordinary Extraordinary Colored Girl ” reopens on March 5, for Act Two of “A Good Nights Sleep.” This interactive exhibit takes visitors on an intimate tour exploring what it means to be a Colored Girl.
This Museum takes a close look at the inner lives of the “ordinary, extraordinary” Colored Girl, from the beauty of her dreams, to her everyday ingenuity.
A Good Night’s Sleep addresses the ways in which Black women often overlook the need for self-care while spending their days and nights working to create, love, and live. This year, founder Vashti Dubois, curator Michael Clemmons, associate director Ian Friday, and a multidisciplinary team of artists further explore self care by imagining the museum as a site for Urgent Care.
Rooms in the museum are curated to suggest spaces that are used for medical care, modeling the journey from triage to the recovery room, while asking critical questions about the American health care predicament. Healthcare professionals, sleep specialists, theologians, social workers and artists will share their wisdom through a series of events and installations. The museum will also offer access to yoga classes, massage sessions, and other self-care modalities through the duration of the exhibit.
New exhibits include Chamber, a mixed media installation conceived by Joy Ude and Petra Floyd, which explores the migration of the colored girl through unique human sized baskets. Ude and Floyd reference West African coil baskets and craft traditions of the African Diaspora as stationary, yet potentially mobile containers of bodies.

On March 5, performance artist and educator Shavonn Norris will premiere a solo performance and house blessing to open the space.