Exhibitions
"44 Circle St., Asheville, NC" at the YMI Cultural Center (Asheville, NC)
January 31 – March 2026
“44 Circle St. Asheville, NC” is an installation in which I combine multi-medium art and multi-media platform (text, photographs, and oral history audiovisuals) to tell the stories of quilts that hang in the 135-year-old Calvary Presbyterian Church in the historic East End of Asheville, NC.
Each One Teach One: The History of the Oakland Community School Exhibit at the BPP Museum (Oakland, CA)
January 2024 – January 2026
I was a content and historical consultant to the exhibit curator, Jahi. Additionally, I appeared in a video installation discussing the Oakland Community School’s history and legacy, and my process for collecting, preserving, and sharing OCS history.
Legacy Installation at the Free Library of Philadelphia (Philadelphia, PA)
March 2023 – April 2023
An homage to my decades of collecting, preserving, and sharing the historical contributions of women in the BPP. For this installation, I included my “Legacy” video, a copy of the Comrade Sisters: Women of the BPP photobook for which I was an archival and oral history consultant, a copy of the Comrade Sisters Discussion and Resource Guide I authored, and a commemorative Comrade Sisters t-shirt I designed and printed to honor the book tour.
Art | Power | Community (Irvine and Berkeley, CA)
May 2022 – December 2022
I commissioned a BPOCSRC intern to attend the 57th BPP anniversary as a photographer in Oakland and, in conjunction with the UC Irvine Humanities Center and the BPOCSRC, collaborated to host a multi-media Art | Power | Community exhibit. The inaugural exhibit featured archival material, photographs, a digital virtual wall presentation, and a virtual conversation at UC Irvine. The exhibit travelled as a photo and archival exhibit to the City of Irvine Juneteenth Celebration and then as a photo-only exhibit to UC Berkeley’s Ethnic Studies Library.
Women of the BPP Mural at the West Oakland Mural Project (Oakland, CA)
2020-2024
I served as a research and historical consultant for this mural project honoring the women and the community programs of the BPP. Community member JilChristina Vest commissioned visual artist Rachel Wolfe-Goldsmith to paint the mural on the side of Vest’s home.
An OCS Experience at the de Young Museum (San Francisco, CA)
February 8, 2018
I co-curated and served as the official videographer for this one-day OCS Experience at the de Young Museum. The event, in conjunction with the Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power 1973-1983 exhibit, featured archival materials, former OCS educators and students as docents, and a film screening and conversation with former OCS director, Ericka Huggins, moderated by Bryant Terry.
