COLLAGE & ARCHIVING AS A VEHICLE FOR STORYTELLING.

MEMORY + REMEMBRANCE AS A MEANS OF ANCESTRAL BONDS.

About the Artist

Jas Turk (they/she) [b. 1990] is a Black, queer self-taught Analog Collage Artist. Jas is a Cultural Sustainability Practitioner who received their Master of Arts in Cultural Sustainability from Goucher College in 2021.

/// Jas seeks to deliver messaging of preservation, Black ancestral remembrance, storytelling, and cultural amplification throughout their creative endeavors.

/// Their artistic practice includes the incorporation of sourced archival photographs, recycled paper, and other repurposed materials that call to their unique creations.

“Without a decolonized archival praxis, the most marginalized & oppressed voices, cultures, traditions, representations, & references are lost.”

-JAS TURK

PRESERVING BLACK CULTURE THROUGH COLLAGE, VISUAL STORYTELLING, & REMEMBRANCE.