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  • An image of small waves coming ashore is projected on a wall, and the floor appears to be the texture of rippled water. Two lounge chairs face the wall.

    In Conversation: Miatta Kawinzi with Chrislyn Laurore

    Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts 724 S 12th St, Omaha, NE 68102, Omaha, NE, United States

    Listen and learn from exhibiting artist Miatta Kawinzi and Haitian-American anthropologist Chrislyn Laurore, who will focus on diasporic identity, material memory, and how storytelling can function as an embodied archive. Their dialogue will connect Kawinzi’s exploration of cultural lineage and ecological interdependence with broader questions of belonging and change within the African Diaspora. Admission is […]

  • Composite of three black-and-white photos. Left side is a child with their eyes almost closed, their cheek pressing into a pointed plant leaf. Two images of the torso and hand of an infant held on the lap of an adult male whose free hand is open and holding some small objects.

    Panel Discussion: Rachel Cox, Rose Marie Cromwell, and Michelle Millar Fisher

    Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts 724 S 12th St, Omaha, NE 68102, Omaha, NE, United States

    As part of the exhibit "MOTHER TIME: Measuring ourselves within the landscape", exhibiting artists Rachel Cox and Rose Marie Cromwell and author/curator Dr. Michelle Millar Fisher will participate in a panel discussion. The panelists will explore photography’s role in constructing personal and political memory, focusing on motherhood in considering how images become repositories for emotion, […]

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