14 September 2025
All materials will be provided
Participants are welcome to bring their own fabrics to work with for the dyeing part of the workshop session
- The workshop is open to everyone above the age of 10
Public Workshop | September 14, 2025 | 13.30 - 16.30 | Atelier, Wereldmuseum Rotterdam
The RCMC is pleased to invite you to our upcoming two-part workshop with Joiri Minaya and Raziel Perin. Through their common interests of deeply exploring different media, and engagement with questions of colonial history and extractivism, the artists invite participants to delve into a creative process of experimentation with Bija or Achiote (Bixa orellana) through drawing and fabric dyeing. During these processes, both Perin and Minaya will share how Bija has been a natural element present in both their works, thus pointing to the great importance held by this seed in Caribbean and Central/South-American culture and cuisine.
The workshop will begin with The Drawing Experience, a sensory-based laboratory guided by Raziel Perin, followed by Joiri Minaya leading a session experimenting with different techniques to dye fabric with Bija.
Photo credit: Annatto Bixa-Orellana, by Mary Asperslag from Werelmuseum collection, TM-20068443.
Practical Information
Photo credit: Annatto Bixa-Orellana, by Mary Asperslag from Werelmuseum collection, TM-20068443.
Program
| 13.30 - 13.50 | Welcoming words by Joiri Minaya and Raziel Perin |
| 13.55 - 14.00 | Quick introduction to workshop |
| 14.00 - 15.00 | The Drawing Experience |
| 15.00 - 15.20 | Snack break and introduction to dying workshop |
| 15.20 - 16.20 | Fabric dyeing session |
About the Artists
Joiri Minaya is a New York-based interdisciplinary artist who works in photography, digital media, film, performance, sculpture, textiles and painting. Born in New York and raised in the Dominican Republic, Minaya describes her multiculturally-informed work as “a reassertion of Self, an exercise of unlearning, decolonizing, and exorcizing imposed histories.” Minaya has recently been part of exhibitions and screenings at the Guggenheim Museum and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, as well as international exhibitions like the Prospect 6 New Orleans Triennial, the Cooper Hewitt Triennial and the Sharjah Biennial 15. She is a recent recipient of the Latinx Artist Fellowship, NYSCA / NYFA Artist Fellowship, Jerome Hill Fellowship, and Artadia award, and has been an artist in residence at the International Studio & Curatorial Program, Light Work, Socrates Sculpture Park, and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. She's currently one of the inaugural artists in residence at the Monti Artist Studio Program in Crown Heights.
Photo by Diana Lopez
Raziel Perin (Dominican Republic 1992) is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice spans drawing, installation, and performance. Rooted in personal history and the migratory experience of his Italian-Dominican family, his work fuses organic materials such as manioc, yams, corn flour, and iron to explore memory, myth, and belonging. Cut and bent iron bars become welded drawings charged with symbolic and magical significance. Sculpted manioc roots, dried and adorned with stones, evoke siren-like deities infused with ancestral Afro-Caribbean mythologies, echoing the voices of Eduardo Galeano’s Memorias del Fuego and Dominican folktales passed down through the African diaspora.
Perin often revisits and reassembles his works over time, allowing their meaning to evolve and expand. Rejecting the idea of permanence, he consider his practice organic and ever-changing, using his creations as tools to deconstruct and re-harmonize inherited memories of the Black body, recentering its experience within the European sociopolitical landscape.
Perin has collaborated with institutions and organizations such as the Italian Cultural Institute (Paris), Altos de Chavón Foundation (La Romana), Pini Foundation (Milan), BHMF (Florence), Ma*Ga Musuem (Gallarate), BRUTUS (Rotterdam), CBK Zuidhoost (Amsterdam) among others. In 2020, he was awarded the NCTM for Arts Prize, and The Italian Council XIV in 2025, his work has been featured in publications including Tzvetnik, ATP Diary, and Forme Uniche. In 2024, Perin designed and facilitated The Drawing Experience in the city of Rotterdam (The Netherlands).”
Photo by Michael Johanes