Intended Audience
Opening reception featuring photographers Mikael Levin and Taj Reed, and Susan McNeill, daughter of the late photographer Robert McNeill.
Through the work of three photographers, this exhibition considers histories of Black experience in St. Mary’s County, Southern Maryland and beyond. Their work engages with particular sites and events that are situated very differently in time, place, and historical circumstances. These include the 1817 Easter Rebellion site in St. Inigoes, the Golden Hotel at Colton’s Point, and Mattawoman Creek in Charles County.
What traces do places hold of the histories that unfolded in them?
Whose histories are recorded? Whose stories are remembered? How are they told, and who tells them?
The exhibition’s title is drawn from poetic text on the College’s Commemorative to Enslaved Peoples of Southern Maryland, a monument that does similar work of history and memory in its efforts to (partially) recover and mark such local histories and lived experiences.