Join us on January 16, 2025, at 6:30PM the Baltimore Museum of Art for a live discussion with the artist-collaborators of Slavery in Motion: Romaine McNeil, Sha-Shonna Rogers, Julia Mallory, and Tatiana Esh.

Doors will open at 6PM.
The conversation begins at 6:30PM, and be sure to join us for the reception from 8-9PM. The event is catered by Mera Collective Kitchen and DJ’ed by Sounds by Seven.

This event is FREE and will also be accessible virtually via the BMA’s YouTube channel. For more information about registration for in-person attendance and the livestream, see https://artbma.org/event/slavery-in-motion/

Slavery in Motion* is collaborative multimedia art collection featuring works by Romaine McNeil, Julia Mallory, Sha-Shonna Rogers, and Tatiana Esh.

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; the Zanvyl Krieger Arts and Sciences at JHU; the University of Maryland Department of African American and Africana Studies through the generosity and support of the Mellon Foundation’s grant, The Past and Future of Black Studies; with additional support from Eindevr | Data Science for the Digital Humanities.

*Recently on showcased in the Coastal Relations: Enacting Diaspora exhibitions curated by Dr. Mary Pena (Dartmouth College) and Kevin Ah-Sen (McGill University) at The Avery Research Center for African American History in Charleston, SC. (08/28/2024 – 01/08/2025)