In and around IAA | Friday May 19 and Saturday May 20, 2023
Presented by Indigo Arts Alliance in partnership with the Center for the Study of Global Slavery at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture (NMAAHC) and Atlantic Black Box.
Through engaging the arts community, this symposium helped people better understand and grapple with the history and legacies of slavery and forced migration, in their lives today. By providing a platform to discuss and enact how art can be integrated with other forms of research and knowledge-making, Art in the Wake explored the profound role of creative expression in uncovering buried histories and expanding and creating new archives.
The symposium’s presentations, art workshops, and cultural conversations offered these foundational queries:
- How can we amplify thought leadership within the African Diaspora to define our own narratives?
- How do we create, sustain, and nourish spaces of health and healing – in our communities and within ourselves?
- How do we offer reconstructive and reparative practices and models of engagement as alternatives for the future?
- How do we foster equitable and inclusive ways of engaging with one another reflective of other language families and cultures that have invested generations of blood, sweat, and tears in the building of this nation and the African diaspora?
Presenters
Margaret Brown, Valnízia Bianchi (Māe Val), C. Daniel Dawson, Meadow Dibble, Paul Gardullo, Rachel Elizabeth Harding, Juana Alicia Ruíz Hernández, Alexandra James, Kate McMahon, Ed Johnetta Miller, Gabrielle Miller, Daniel Minter, Marcia Minter, Chris Newell, Johanna Obenda, Meghna Singh, Nyugen Smith, Gary Tyler, and Clotilda Descendants. Lunch and dinner provided by Chef Jordan Benissan.
Our Booklet
View our booklet for a more in-depth look at Art in the Wake I. Find everything from presenters’ biographies to a schedule of events.
Photos from Art in the Wake: Reckoning and Re-membering, Friday May 19- Saturday May 20, Portland, ME
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