Judith Black

The Visiting Artist Series Presents

COMING JANUARY 2026

As artists our growth is bound up in one another

Autonomous creativity is fashioned in good company — in the exchange of ideas and exposure to new ways of seeing

TESTIMONIALS

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Super 8 by Nicole Leoné Miller & Sara Weir
MEMORY CULT Summer 2025 Retreat

BOOK 01 — Cult Catechism: 365 Creative Self-Awareness Prompts

Know yourself and customize your creative life.

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Stories

A curated collection of news, features, critical inquiry & celebration

Featured

The Self Portrait as Social Document

Photographer and sociologist Natalie Stanczak asks how the private can be translated into the social.

Interviews

In Dialogue With Trent Davis Bailey

Interviews

Through tragedy, archival photographs and new fatherhood, a non-linear family elegy is born.

Interviews

Open Enrollment Starts June 1, 2026

Member pre-sale Starts June 1, 2026. Don’t miss it.

An Index of MEMORY CULT Mothers

For 18 months MEMORY CULT founder Anastasia Pagonas photographed members remotely all over the world.

Home in 12 Slides

“I was born in the bathtub of this house.” Writer and photographer Lily Ray indexes her childhood home.

In Dialogue with Sara Weir

A live dialogue on 3600 Hours, Sara’s forthcoming monograph.

Visiting Artists

Every year MEMORY CULT welcomes select guests for an open forum dialogue and member Q&A

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Featured

DAVID CAMPANY — Culture & Form

The MEMORY CULT Visiting Artist Series welcomes David Campany—curator, writer, editor, educator and Creative Director of the International Center of Photography, New York.

JUDITH BLACK — The Public Family Album

The MEMORY CULT Visiting Artist Series welcomes Judith Black.

MICHAEL NORTHRUP — Effective Ambiguity

The MEMORY CULT Visiting Artist Series welcomes Michael Northrup.

DEANNA DIKEMAN — The Near and The Known

COLIN PANTALL — Loosening Genre

KATRIN KOENNING — In And With The World

Acclaimed visual artist Katrin Koenning visited us from her home studio to discuss the origin story of her practice, her philosophy of community, politics and care, and how she creates the context for her work.