How do we build an inclusive archive? What are some archival practices and tools for affecting repair, especially from the point of place? Join the conversation with Kamau Ware and Jennifer Jones, as they consider archival research methodologies, how they manifest in art practice, and how these expanded histories may be used to create futures.

Kamau Ware develops narratives about African Diasporic history through photography, films, exhibitions, and social practice. The Black Gotham Experience (BGX), an organization he founded in 2010, utilizes art and walking tours to illustrate the impact of the African Diaspora in New York City. The Black Gotham Experience has been in residence in the Seaport District of Lower Manhattan since 2017, serving as a gallery, event space, and visitor’s center for walks.

James Gallery Andrew W. Mellon Fellow and artist Jennifer Jones (Ph.D. Program in Art History and SPCUNY). Jones’ auto-ethnographic research is inspired by turn-of-the-century family photographs, set in one of the first free Black settlements in NYC and one of the oldest continuously occupied settlements in the country. She is currently researching methods of research to highlight or unearth histories that are left out of traditional archives.

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