Thanks to Oprah Winfrey and Rebecca Skloot, the rest of the United States is intimately acquainted with Henrietta Lacks, a name which was almost erased from history, forever. But the Lacks story has been a Baltimore story for generations, now, and a focal point for Jeffrey Kent since 2011.
These are sketches of possible future headdresses. For the film, Ubuntu, performers were sent a video of the sketches, to choose one. Their chosen sketch was made for them to wear for the filming.
LAB: Empirical Evidenceis an immersive installation /exhibition produced at The Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture at UMBC (the University of Maryland Baltimore County).
The Peale Center building, known historically as “Male and Female Colored School Number 1” acted as a departure point for the critical examination of historical and contemporary segregation in Baltimore City public schools explored in the RENOVATIONS gallery. In addition to an immersive exhibition of the history of education in Baltimore, the show tracks the nine students who graduated from School Number 1 in 1889 - Baltimore’s first all-Black high school graduating class.
Acrylic paintings based on photographs taken of snowball stands throughout the Baltimore-metro area. This is an ongoing series that started in spring 2020.