Tokie Rome-Taylor "One Day Soon Come" Exhibition Opening

Come out this holiday season to celebrate family, history and identity by taking in the artworks of Atlanta native, Tokie Rome-Taylor.

Rome-Taylor is a photo based artist and educator whose work is based in the notion that perception of self and belonging within a society is formed in childhood. She creates photographs of Georgia's African American children that re-examine history, identity and tradition. Her works represent a visual elevation of Black children that had been omitted from mainstream "western art history". Her critique of the art canon is combined with a similar examination of the South. Questions that stem from ethnographic and historical research that probe material, spiritual, and familial culture of ancestral descents of southern slaves are entry points for her to build symbolic elements that communicate a visual language within the work.

Children are set within a space that leans into the past, reaching back to address the erasure of worth in how black bodies are perceived and represented.

"One Day Soon Come" is her artistic interpretation and celebration of children, and particularly African Americans of the south. The work puts them at the center, to see their connections, cultural richness, and belonging within history.

To learn more about Rome Taylor or to connect via Social:

www.tokietaylorstudio.com

www.instagram.com/tokietstudio

This exhibition is sponsored through the generous support of Fulton County Arts and Culture, The Wren's Nest Museum, and Preserve Black Atlanta

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Host or Publisher Tokie Rome-Taylor, Sponsored by Fulton County Arts and Culture