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(Above) September 10- 13 Civil Rights tour through Alabama

Bethel Baptist Church Parsonage “Ghost House”
16th Street Baptist Church
National Memorial for Peace and Justice
Edmund Pettus Bridge
Dexter Avenue Baptist Church Pews
Dexter Avenue Baptist Church
Lynching Victims from Dodge County Georgia, placard at the National Memorial for Peace and Justice

I saw each of these sites on my trip with the Pozen Center for Human Rights & Chicago Torture Justice Center’s Institute on Memory and Human Rights.

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National African American History Museum, Washington, DC

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Objects of Material Care Memorial for Tamir Rice at Stony Island Arts Bank

A monument to a life taken too soon. Samira Rice donated the gazebo where Tamir Rice was murdered to the Stony Island Arts Bank.

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Arts, Science + Culture Initiative Collaboration Grant final presentations reception on Wednesday, May 9, 2018 at the Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry/Midway Studios Great Hall on the Chicago campus. (Photo by Nancy Wong)

Our Art, Science, Culture Collaboration constituted two large scale photographs of buildings in our hometowns: Delhi and Eastman, Georgia. Ayesha’s photo of the Rashtrapati Bhavan inhabits its power as a formerly British colonial structure that currently houses state authority. Jordie’s photo of the courthouse presents a local site of government that is accessible, knowable and nearly meets the eye.

We created a “Ghost Monument” with rubbings from a confederate statue in Jordie’s hometown. This ominous piece lifts the words etched on the side of the monument and suspends them in time– removing them from their structure, their claimed historical relevance. The mode of presentation emphasizes their historical insignificance. This installation demonstrates how historical markers haunt and inhabit public space.

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