Slavery in Motion

Name: Slavery in Motion
Start: 2025-01-16T18:30:00-05:00
End: 2025-01-16T21:00:00-05:00
Location: 10 Art Museum Dr, Baltimore, MD, United States, Maryland 21218

Schedule

Thu Jan 16 2025 at 06:30 pm to 09:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

10 Art Museum Dr, Baltimore, MD, United States, Maryland 21218 | Baltimore, MD

Join us for a presentation and conversation with members of Remains // An Archive Jessica Newby, Samantha Stephens, and Kevin Ah-Sen as they discuss the inspiration for the multimedia art collection Slavery in Motion with featured artists: Romaine McNeil, Tatiana Esh, Sha-Shonna Rogers, and Julia Mallory. Remains // An Archive of the Mellon-funded Diaspora Solidarities Lab (2022-2024) explores grief through various media in the arts, digital storytelling/mapping, and curation.
Accessible seating and assistive listening devices are available for this program. A reception will immediately follow the panel discussion from 8pm-9pm.
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About the Collection
Slavery in Motion is currently on view through January 8, 2025 at the Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture in Charleston, SC. It was inspired by the life of Molia, a young African woman who was sold and lived as a captive in mid-18th century Westmoreland, Jamaica. Molia and other enslaved women and girls in Jamaica are the focus of Remains lab member Jessica Newby’s dissertation research.
The four original artworks in the exhibition are by Black women artists from across the diaspora, Romaine McNeil (Kingston, Jamaica), Tatiana Esh (Brooklyn, NY), Sha-Shonna Rogers (Baltimore, MD), and Julia Mallory (Harrisburg, PA), and each convey an aspect of Molia’s life through a variety of visual, poetic, and sonic mediums.
In keeping with the core philosophy and principles of Remains and the Diapora Solidarities Lab, the collection enacts a Black feminist ethic of care that accentuates and memorializes Molia’s story of captivity, motherhood, loss and frequent fugitivity. It seeks to transcend the obscurity, silence, erasure, and other limitations of colonial archives in relaying the complexity of enslaved women’s lives.
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Tickets
This event is free and open to the public.
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Schedule
6 p.m. – Auditorium doors open
6:30 p.m. – Auditorium program begins
Opening remarks by Kevin Ah-Sen & Samantha Stephens
Introduction by Jessica Newby; panel discussion with Remains members Jessica Newby, Samantha Stephens, and Kevin Ah-Sen, alongside artists Tatiana Esh, Julia Mallory, Romaine McNeil, and Sha-Shonna Rogers; and closing remarks by Dr. Jessica Marie Johnson
8–9 p.m. – Reception in Fox Court
9 p.m. – Program ends
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This event is being co-sponsored by The Diaspora Solidarities Lab, LifexCode: Digital Humanities Against Enclosure, The Johns Hopkins University Center for Africana Studies; The Program for the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality; The Billie Holiday Center for Liberation Arts (Inheritance Baltimore); and The Program in Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies; with additional support from Eindevr | Data Science for the Digital Humanities.