CURATING ARCHIVES Event Series
Fall 2023
What does it mean to consider archival practice – a commitment to historical documentation and preservation – as an element of political radicalism? How might artists follow the peculiarities of the archive to activate new histories, coalitions, and forms of cultural memory? The Tabb Center’s fall series—an array of film screenings, panels, and talks—investigates the politics of historical memory and creative mobilizations of the archive.
Free and open to the public
Thurs Sept 14 6:30
Panel discussion: When Histories Collide, with Jackie Milad, Fred Wilson, and Nekisha Durrett, moderated by Lisa Corrin, followed by a public reception (@ BMA)
Organized in collaboration with the Baltimore Museum of Art, please join the Tabb Center for an evening of connection and conversation with artists Jackie Milad, Fred Wilson, and Nekisha Durrett prompted by Histories Collide, an exhibition that features new work by Durrett and Milad created in dialogue with Fred Wilson’s sculpture Artemis/Bast (1992). The conversation will be moderated by Lisa Graziose Corrin, Ellen Philips Katz Director of The Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University.
More information and free registration at this link.
Baltimore Museum of Art Auditorium
10 Art Museum Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218
Tue 11/14-Fri Dec 1: “Be(longing): Unveiling the Imprint of Black Women Hidden in Plain Sight,” an art Installation by Nicoletta Darita de la Brown
An installation that celebrates and honors Black women hidden in plain sight, based on Tabb Center Public Humanities Fellow Darita de la Brown’s research in the Ethel Ennis, Billie Holiday, and Real PostCards collections at JHU Special Collections. Read more about the Tabb Center Public Humanities Fellowships at the Libraries blog.
The installation is free and open to the public from 10am-5pm on the following dates. The artist will periodically be activating the installation through performance:
- Tue 11/14-Fri 11/17
- Mon 11/20-Wed 11/22
- Sun 11/26-Fri 12/1
The George Peabody Library
17 E Mt Vernon Pl, Baltimore, MD 21202
Tuesday Nov 14 noon
Nicoletta Darita de la Brown: Activating the Archive
Tabb Center Public Humanities Fellow Darita de la Brown gives a public talk about her research in the Ethel Ennis, Billie Holiday, and Real PostCards collections at JHU Special Collections and her installation at the George Peabody Library. Read more about the Tabb Center Public Humanities Fellowships at the Libraries blog.
Macksey Seminar Room, Brody Learning Commons M-Level
3400 N Charles St, Baltimore, MD 21218