Maps as Storytellers

Name: Maps as Storytellers
Start: 2025-03-22T14:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-03-22T16:00:00-04:00
Location: Seymour Senior Center

Schedule

Sat Mar 22 2025 at 02:00 pm to 04:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Seymour Senior Center | Chapel Hill, NC

Join us on March 22, 2025, at 2 PM at the Seymour Senior Center Auditorium for “Maps as Storytellers” – a presentation by Fowota Mortoo, PhD student in geography at UNC. She has created a 12-square-foot map of campus layered with images of the people who built the buildings, focusing on four Black Chapel Hill families – Barbee, Blacknell, Jones, and Johnson. Mortoo saw an opportunity to unsettle traditional mapping practices while highlighting the stories of the Black individuals who helped design and construct the University’s buildings, rock walls, and brick pathways.