Visiting Cultural Workers
Rianna Jade Parker
2026/27 Visiting CBP Research Fellow in Caribbean Archives, Collections & Heritage
Rianna Jade Parker is a writer, critic, art historian, and curator. Her work spans exhibitions, archives, publishing, and cultural work across the UK, Europe, the Caribbean, and North America. She is Director of Arts Jamaica Archive, an initiative dedicated to documenting and preserving the histories, collections, and visual cultures that have shaped modern and contemporary Jamaican visual art. Her first book, A Brief History of Black British Art, was published by Tate in 2021. At the CBP, Parker is developing the Arts Jamaica Digital Reading Room, archival training resources, and related publication projects.
Kay Ulanday Barrett
2025/26 CBP Artist-in-Residence
Kay Ulanday Barrett is CBP’s Disability Justice Fellow and Artist-in-Residence. A poet, essayist, cultural strategist, performer, and educator, Barrett’s work moves through disabled, queer, trans, Filipinx, and BIPOC futures with care, wit, and political force. They are a 2024 Disabled Futures Fellow, winner of the 2022 Cy Twombly Award for Poetry from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, and author of More Than Organs, which received a 2021 Stonewall Honor Book Award and was a Lambda Literary Award finalist. At CBP, Barrett curates No Body But Ours, a virtual showcase created by and for sick, disabled, queer, trans, Black, Indigenous, and QTIPOC/2S+ artists and audiences.
Kadhja Bonet
2025/26 CBP Artist-in-Residence in Black Sound & Community Infrastructures
Kadhja Bonet is a recording artist, songwriter and producer from California. She released 2 full length albums as well as EPs and singles with Fat Possum Records and Ninja Tune Records before relocating to Toronto to achieve a master’s in music technology and digital media from UofT. Professionally, Kadhja has collaborated with Childish Gambino, Anderson.Paak, Khrangbin and many others, but now shifts her focus to equip new artists with the skills and resources to carve out their own sounds and ethical music pathways. By teaching workshops and other free seminars, Kadhja aims to shift the ways we consume, curate and create music to reflect an ethical and politically empowered climate. Through a community partnership between It’s OK* Studios and the CBP, Kadhja will be an artist-in-residence with the Collaboratory for Black Poiēsis, where she will be lead workshop designer + facilitator for the Songwhisperers’ Symposium, a community-centred public workshop series & research project for community infrastructures meant to deepen our preparation and commitment to Black sound, shared study, and collective independent music-making. The series will also accompany creative publications from this work.