night vision studio lab

where softness is the practice

Saturday sessions open

July 25 - August 22

A space to rest, heal, and play together.

The night vision studio lab is where Black women and marginalized genders (MaGes) step out of grind culture and back into their own rhythm through reflection, imagination, embodied grounding, and slowness. It's a room for creative and spiritual life to breathe, without a deliverable waiting at the end.

We gather, make things, sit in silence, and companion each other in an unhurried space rooted in flourishing rather than productivity and grind culture. Here, creative practice is treated as spiritual practice here. Tending your body, following your curiosity, sitting with your own becoming are all welcomed expressions of enoughness.

As Lucille Clifton named it, we're here to “build something human.”

the poem that started it all

Before you read it, pause and take a breath. As you read, pay attention to the words or phrases that make you feel something. Let the poem help you discern if this space is for you.

night vision by Lucille Clifton

the girl fits her body in

to the space between the bed

and the wall. she is a stalk,

exhausted. she will do some

thing with this. she will

surround those bones with flesh.

she will cultivate night vision.

she will train her tongue

to lie still in her mouth and listen.

the girl slips into sleep.

her dream is red and raging.

she will remember

to build something human with it.

After reading the poem,

if any of this resonates, this space is for you:


“I am folded into a space too small for what I actually need.”


“I am exhausted, and I don't want to perform otherwise anymore.”


“I am tired of needing everything to be peaceful before I can create.”


“My dreams lately feel raw and urgent, and I don't know what to do with them.”


“I want to embrace stillness instead of always toward output.”


“I want to remember how to play without asking if it's productive.”

Frequently Asked Questions

what holds this space

Black feminist poetics, which centers imagination, lineage, breath, and the everyday as ways of knowing;

Womanist Theology, which attends to liberation, embodied wisdom, dignity, and joy held in community;

Digital Media Literacy, which names what algorithms do to us and practices something more humane; and

Contemplative Practice, which cultivates slowness, presence, healing, and the rhythms of becoming.