Memory-Mapping ATL invites you to share your photos and memories by placing them on a 3D map of metro Atlanta. Facilitated by interactive media designer Kennedy Arnette, we’ll provide printing and storytelling tools to help you place yourself in the story of this ever-changing city. This event begins with a panel discussion of Atlanta based artists and cultural workers, sharing the different ways we can memorialize our relationship to a place while continuing to shape it through communal archiving.
Kennedy Arnette is a memory-keeper, interactive media designer, and teaching artist who develops accessible frameworks for communal learning. With a practice rooted in UI design and contemporary ecology, they study migratory oral-visual traditions toward the creation of immersive living archives and various educational programs via the Perennial Memory Lab. Using culturally intuitive strategies, Kennedy works to support Black people and the historically dispossessed as we uncover and share our unique stories in ways that only we can.
led by Tatiana Bell (WE KEEP US SAFE) and Maya Wiseman
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We invite you to experience WE KEEP US SAFE and contribute to this growing archive of love, resilience, and justice. Together, we are greater than ourselves.
Event offsite at Emory University’s Michael C. Carlos Museum
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Event Offsite at Emory University’s Michael C. Carlos Museum
Join us at Emory University’s Michael C. Carlos Museum for a conversation between renowned Guyanese-British artist Hew Locke, whose work explores empire and power, and Guyanese-American curator Grace Aneiza Ali. The landmark exhibition, Donald Locke: Nexus, curated by Ali and on view here at Atlanta Contemporary, honors the life and legacy of Guyanese-born artist Donald Locke (1930–2010), one of Atlanta’s most influential artists. It focuses on how the concept of “nexus” permeates his artistic and intellectual journey and his engagement with themes of migration, cultural hybridity, and the histories of colonialism.
