Wendy Stuart will be hosting TriVersity Talk! this Wednesday at 7 PM ET with featured guest Cheryl Paley.
TriVersity Talk! is a weekly web series with featured guests discussing their lives, activism and pressing issues in the LGBTQ Community. With TriVersity Talk!, the goal is to laugh and learn.
TriVersity Talk! Is part of TriVersity’s ICARE Initiative. ICARE stands for Increasing Community Awareness through Relevant Education. ICARE Programs are generously funded by The Greater Pike Community.
Cheryl Paley, Project Transcend Creator and Director:
Throughout her 30 years creating Theatre for Social Change, Cheryl has used the Body Mapping methodology in residencies with St. Luke’s Crime Victims Treatment Center, The Women’s Prison Association and inside the first transgender unit of a New York City prison unit.
Cheryl created Devised Theatre for over 25 years, as director, co-writer and curator, creating over 100 original plays and performance pieces. Through Artistic Directorships for The SPARK Arts in Counseling Team, The NiteStar Program, Family Arts Forum and STAR Theatre at The Director’s Company her works for community based audiences have been featured at The United Nations, The New York State Attorney General’s Office, The Mayor’s Office on Domestic Violence, The Sargent Shriver Peace Institute and the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. As a writer her works have been published in Anthologies and online magazines. She also has three plays currently in development: RED SKY; ANN AND ANNA O; AND THE VAULT.
Project: Transcend NYC Brings New Depths and Voices to the Body Mapping Experience at LGBTQ Center Debut
NYC Artists Explored Identity, Gender, and Journey Through an Intensive 12 Week Body Mapping Project
Following twelve weeks of intense artistic introspection and expression, Project Transcend, the body mapping experience that highlights the personal journey of six artists from the transgender and gender nonconforming community, using diverse media, opens at the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Community Center in Manhattan on March 20th, 2026 from 6PM – 9PM and is part of The Center’s Day of Trans Visibility programming. It will run at The Center through May 31st. The project is supported by The Women’s Community Justice Association and by the donations of individuals who care about the arts and representation.
What is Body Mapping?
At its most simple iteration, body mapping is an artistic exercise where one’s entire body is traced out onto life-size rolls of paper. The artists are given space to create an expression of their own story in their own way.
Project: Transcend NYC elevates the body mapping experience into raw expressionism of the joys and trauma each artist faced in their own journeys as creatives. The prompts given to them are designed to encourage introspection and explore the truths of their personal experience and in doing so, highlight our collective humanity.
While the process can be challenging the results were six wholly individualized and beautiful pieces of art that do what art is supposed to do: expose truths in all their colors.
All photographs documenting the behind the scenes process of the artists were taken by Project: Transcend NYC photographer Kim Hernandez(they/them).
Watch TriVersity Talk! Live on Wednesday at 7 PM ET on Youtube here:
https://www.youtube.com/@TriVersityCenter
The official website for the TriVersity Center may be found at https://www.triversitycenter.org
