Institution: Scripps College THE LEGACIES OF MAROON RESISTANCE: BLACK FUGITIVITY AS A PERFORMANCE OF FREEDOM My research investigates how maroons, enslaved Africans who escaped their plantations and… Read more “Tselot Aklilu”
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Benton Museum of Art: Black Artist Exhibition
Institution: Pomona College PERFORMANCE: NIC Kay: pushit!! [an exercise in getting well soon] Drone footage With pushit!! [an exercise in getting well soon], performance artist NIC Kay investigates the… Read more “Benton Museum of Art: Black Artist Exhibition”
Brian Bishop
with Honzo Smilek Institution: Pomona College DIGITAL INTERCONNECTIONS Video performance Last year, Feb 2020, I curated the Black Intersections Conference gallery in collaboration with OBSA. The event… Read more “Brian Bishop”
Ryan Collins
Institution: Pomona College JAMES BALDWIN: UNCOVERING BLACK QUEER TRUTHS Research presentation The Civil Rights Movement was the summation of grass-roots activism as well as high profile demonstrations… Read more “Ryan Collins”
Cherise Higgins
Institution: Pomona College TO BE CONTINUED… Video Performance Fade Away is a sneak preview of Cherise Michelle’s Senior Thesis. Cherise has been diligently working on Fingerprint, a… Read more “Cherise Higgins”
Suzette Love, MPA, MEd
with Ulf Lindstrom, Erik Hagstrom and Erik Anderson Institution: Claremont Graduate University (doctoral student and alumna) BLACK MAGIC SOLILOQUY Music and video performance The work I am… Read more “Suzette Love, MPA, MEd”
Quentin Jenkins
Institution: Pitzer College FROM DIVERSITY TO INCLUSION, A CRITICAL RACE ANALYSIS OF INSTITUTIONAL INCLUSIVITY: HOW HAVE PWIs BEEN AT PROMOTING DIVERSITY & BEING INCLUSIVE TOWARDS BLACK &… Read more “Quentin Jenkins”
Fred Zucule
Institution: Pomona College PORTRAIT OF RAMA MBUTHIA AMANDLA Video Performance LOOKING FOR ROTIMI Visualizer QUEERNESS IS FREEDOM Digital Art AWETHU Digital Art LOOK Digital Art I was… Read more “Fred Zucule”
Mouminatou Thiau
Institution: Scripps College MADE COMPLETE Series I hoped to show the energy and beauty of God flowing through each of us. For me, I chose to let… Read more “Mouminatou Thiau”
The 5th Annual Black Intersections Conference: Justice & Black Joy 