Louis Armstrong Collage Animation Workshop

In partnership with the Louis Armstrong House Museum (LAHM), we present a Collage Animation Workshop led by LAHM’s Director of Community Engagement Charanya Ramakrishnan and co-facilitated by Tiffany Joy Butler, Associate Curator of Public Programs at Museum of the Moving Image. Inspired by the collage art of Louis Armstrong, this free workshop invites you to dive into the vibrant world of collage-making and storytelling. Bring together images, textures, and text, and animate your story to create something uniquely your own. 

This workshop is inspired by the artistic excellence of jazz legend Louis Armstrong, who was not only a musical icon but also a prolific collage artist. He used photographs, letters, promotional materials, newspaper articles, and more to create art on the walls of his home, in scrapbooks, and on more than 500 reel-to-reel tape boxes. 

This program is presented as part of MoMI’s Celebrate Juneteenth. Juneteenth is a holiday which commemorates the official end of slavery in the U.S. During a period of legal segregation, jazz was an important form of resistance and expression, originating in Black communities of New Orleans where Louis Armstrong was born.