Group show
Creativity Lab: Make a Portrait
13 Apr 2026 — 30 Aug 2026 at Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
· New York
Installation. Through Aug 30.
Creativity Lab: Make a Portrait invites you to explore creativity in front of and behind the camera through an artist-designed portrait studio. Inspired by the exhibition Ideas of Africa: Portraiture and Political Imagination in Africa, create your own portrait using photography, creative prompts, and a library of photobooks. Join us for workshops to connect with artists about topics like photography, community, and archival practices.
Creativity Lab: Make a Portrait is co-organized with the collective Souls in Focus. Souls in Focus is a New York City-based, community-driven visual artist collective and creative agency. Since their inception in 2018, they've built a strong community of thinkers, creators, educators, and community organizers. Their values — inspire, educate, connect — are deeply rooted in watering their communities through photography, creative collaboration, and sustaining meaningful networks across the city and beyond.
Henry Danner is a photographer and visual storyteller committed to using his camera as a tool to influence change. He uses the techniques of street photography, documentary photography, and photojournalism to highlight the poetic nature of everyday life, display the strengths of communities, and share stories that heal. His work focuses on various aspects of Black identity while highlighting themes related to social justice, criminal justice, youth development, education, and community development. Danner is a cofounder of the visual artist collective Souls in Focus.
Naeem Douglas is an Emmy-nominated journalist, writer, and photographer. He's also a content producer at MoMA, where he writes and edits articles and takes photographs for MoMA Magazine.
Lauren von Eckartsberg is a photographer, community organizer, and educator whose work explores themes of identity, collective experience, and nostalgia. She is an alumna of the International Center of Photography and has served as the education and community engagement director of the photography collective and creative agency Souls in Focus.
Sade Fasanya is a Nigerian-American photographer, educator, community builder, and cofounder of the visual artist collective Souls in Focus. Working across digital and analog mediums, her practice centers on identity, expression, African diasporic communities, and the visual language of everyday urban life.
Creativity Lab: Make a Portrait invites you to explore creativity in front of and behind the camera through an artist-designed portrait studio. Inspired by the exhibition Ideas of Africa: Portraiture and Political Imagination in Africa, create your own portrait using photography, creative prompts, and a library of photobooks. Join us for workshops to connect with artists about topics like photography, community, and archival practices.
Creativity Lab: Make a Portrait is co-organized with the collective Souls in Focus. Souls in Focus is a New York City-based, community-driven visual artist collective and creative agency. Since their inception in 2018, they've built a strong community of thinkers, creators, educators, and community organizers. Their values — inspire, educate, connect — are deeply rooted in watering their communities through photography, creative collaboration, and sustaining meaningful networks across the city and beyond.
Henry Danner is a photographer and visual storyteller committed to using his camera as a tool to influence change. He uses the techniques of street photography, documentary photography, and photojournalism to highlight the poetic nature of everyday life, display the strengths of communities, and share stories that heal. His work focuses on various aspects of Black identity while highlighting themes related to social justice, criminal justice, youth development, education, and community development. Danner is a cofounder of the visual artist collective Souls in Focus.
Naeem Douglas is an Emmy-nominated journalist, writer, and photographer. He's also a content producer at MoMA, where he writes and edits articles and takes photographs for MoMA Magazine.
Lauren von Eckartsberg is a photographer, community organizer, and educator whose work explores themes of identity, collective experience, and nostalgia. She is an alumna of the International Center of Photography and has served as the education and community engagement director of the photography collective and creative agency Souls in Focus.
Sade Fasanya is a Nigerian-American photographer, educator, community builder, and cofounder of the visual artist collective Souls in Focus. Working across digital and analog mediums, her practice centers on identity, expression, African diasporic communities, and the visual language of everyday urban life.
About the venue
Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
· New York
The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is an art museum located in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, on 53rd Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. MoMA's collection spans the late 19th century to the present, and includes over 200,000 works of architecture and design, drawing, painting, sculpture…
