Their Kindred Earth: Photographs by William Earle Williams

This exhibition explores the hidden histories embedded in the land, focusing on Connecticut’s overlooked connections to African American history. Through his powerful photography, William Earle Williams illuminates sites of enslavement, the Underground Railroad, and emancipation, many of which remain unmarked and forgotten. Inspired by his early mentorship with Walker Evans and his ongoing engagement with local historical initiatives, Williams returns as the Florence Griswold Museum’s 2023–25 Artist-in-Residence. His work uncovers the presence of those denied agency in recorded history, inviting viewers to reimagine familiar landscapes and consider the untold stories they hold. Printed catalog for the exhibition was published

Experimental Medicine: A Winter Break Reflection on Me-First Language Arts

Rogers reflects on an experimental English Language Arts (ELA) course he taught in 2015. The course, designed to explore identity and societal issues, was aimed at pushing beyond traditional teaching methods and engaging students in conversations about race, identity, and social justice. Influenced by the racial justice movements of the time, he sought to make learning more relevant and impactful. The class included readings from James Baldwin and W.E.B. Du Bois, encouraging students to confront their personal and collective identities while questioning oppressive structures. He invited his students to challenge conventional learning, with the hope of empowering them to claim their own understanding and spark social change. The course, intended as an experiment, emphasized the connection between self-awareness and the need for a broader societal transformation

To be Fussed Over: A Critical Phenomenological Examination of Black Feminist Practices of Care in the Midst of Polycrisis

This essay maps four Black feminist phenomenological reflections on care in the midst of polycrises. Linking the author’s series of Instagram stories ‘#MyBlackFeministCaronaChronicles’; an edited collection of West Philadelphia responses to the COVID-19 pandemic and uprisings, How We Stay Free; Toni Cade Bambara’s 1980 novel, The Salt Eaters; and bell hooks’s 1994 Sisters of the Yam: Black Women and Self-Recovery, the author seeks to describe how Black feminist modes of care are depicted via a Black feminist critical phenomenology that sees care as linked to intersubjectivity, intersectionality and liberation

Reflections in Black: A Reframing

Reflections in Black: A Reframing includes modern and original prints and extends Deborah Willis’s pioneering effort to reshape the narrative of American history, by centering the indisputable aesthetic, political, and cultural contributions of Black photographers from the 19th century to the present. Featured in the exhibition is The Missing Chapter: Black Chronicles, Autograph’s pop-up photography display featuring 30 remarkable image panels, reproduced from rare 19th-century photographs portraying people of African, Caribbean and South Asian descent during the Victorian era in Britain. Focused on unearthing nineteenth-century photographs of black presences in Britain’s archives, the portraits offer a unique snapshot of black lives and experiences during the decades following the birth of photography in 1839. Many of these images lay buried deep within the archives for decades, unseen for more than 125 years. Through both historical and contemporary lenses, Reflections in Black: A Reframing foregrounds a sweeping visual archive that affirms Black self-authorship in image making, spotlighting the evolution and enduring vitality of Black photographic practices

Bær / A Place

A PLACE presents a group exhibition of six international artists brought together in 2022 during an artist residency at Bær Art Center in Höfðaströnd in Skagafjörður, Iceland. The artists are, Barbara Ellmann, Jóna Þorvaldsdóttir, Mike Vos, Katia Klose, Debbie Westergaard Tuepah, and Markus Baenziger. The exhibition A PLACE, at Listasafn Árnesinga is a sort of second edition and continuing exploration of this original residency experience from 2022, exploring the lasting connections, influences, and new impressions formed in the practices of each artist as a result of this residency and exhibition