Prayer Room is a virtual asynchronous prayer circle and participatory art project created by 2023–2024 A.I.R. Fellow Funto Omojola. It looks to traditions of invocation in the black church and histories of non-western medicine, divinatory systems, and ritual to create a collective continuing invocation for relief, fold, and carry.

For the project, participants are invited to submit prayer requests through an online form. Requests can be about participants themselves or their loved ones and prayers can be about anything participants are grappling with—there are no restrictions or restraints on what kinds of prayer requests can be made. Prayer requests will appear publicly in the online prayer archive.

In addition to this virtual “bowl” of requests that they can return to, participants can also select to receive an “invocation” from a guest artist or poet.

To learn more or request a prayer, click here.