This interdisciplinary exhibition explores relationships among Black people, Land, and the environment. It offers a new frame through which to understand current issues such as climate change as well as a new basis for anchoring historical narratives of plantation slavery, urban development, and other facets of racial capitalism. Including works by Dawoud Bey, Tony Gleaton, Wardell Milan, Alison Saar, and Kara Walker, this multimedia presentation prompts us to consider how Black experience in America has been defined or informed by natural and built environments.
Curated by J Finley, Associate Professor of Africana Studies; Cherene Sherrard-Johnson, Chair of English and E. Wilson Lyon Professor of the Humanities; and Victoria Sancho Lobis, Sarah Rempel and Herbert S. Rempel ’23 Director of the Benton Museum of Art and Associate Professor of Art History, with curatorial intern Tristen Alizée Leone ’26
With contributions by members of the classes Race, Gender, and the Environment (Departments of English and Women and Gender Studies) and Unruly Bodies: Black Womanhood in Popular Culture (Intercollegiate Department of Africana Studies) at Pomona College in Fall 2024
This exhibition has been supported by the Eva Cole and Clyde Matson Memorial Fund and the Rembrandt Club of Pomona College and Claremont. Programs related to this exhibition have been supported by the Pomona College English Department.
