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In Memory of Elizabeth Catlett and Margaret Walker’s Friendship
Essay published ‘In Our Own Words: The Phillis Wheatley Poetry Festival 50th Anniversary Commemorative Issue,’ a special issue of Jackson State University’s Researcher.
ATL Renaissance, Now!
Newsletter coverage for Pigment International, “AUC ART COLLECTIVE HOSTS ATLANTA RENAISSANCE, NOW! SYMPOSIUM FEATURING DR. DENISE MURELL”
laboring woman
orginal poem laboring woman after saidiya hartman in conversation with simone leigh, performed at Loophole of Retreat Venice
Chakaia Booker and Dalton Gata at ICA Miami
“Chakaia Booker: The Observance” and Dalton Gata “The Way We’ll Be” at ICA Miami for Burnaway Magazine.
the mud at our feet
Sarah Nathaniel and Komikka Patton the mud at our feet at Swan Coach House Gallery, Atlanta, GA.
2 poems for Aunt Chloe
“when they say look at God like she just passed right in front of us” and “if the only evidence of Black womanhood were an abstract painting,” for Aunt Chloe Magazine W20
Image: Jennie C. Jones, Score for Sustained Blackness #4, 2014.
Black Image Corporation
“Theaster Gates: Black Image Corporation” on view at Spelman College Museum of Fine Art published in Scalawag Magazine.