In celebration of the Home issue of Southern Cultures, photographer Kennedi Carter will discuss her work with artist and curator Endia Beal. This conversation is part of the Center for the Study of the American South’s “Thinking South” series.
Home holds dualities and contradictions: celebration and lament; threat and safety; disaster and sanctuary; stability and mobility; ownership (heirs’ property) and displacement (gentrification, climate catastrophes); rootedness and migration; steadiness and instability; happy reunions and complicated returns. In the Home issue, guest edited by Blair LM Kelley and LeRhonda S. Manigault-Bryant, we explore critical reflections of home that invoke the necessity of grounding in place, understanding that while the meanings of home are myriad (and both universal and discrete), the word home invokes something for everyone.
Thursday, January 9
5:30 PM: Conversation
Q&A and reception to follow
The Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History
150 South Road
Chapel Hill, NC
*Free & open to the public
A Durham, North Carolina native by way of Dallas, Texas, Kennedi Carter is a visual artist with a primary focus on Black subjects. Her work highlights the aesthetic and sociopolitical aspects of Black life, as well as the overlooked beauties of the Black experience: skin, texture, trauma, peace, love, and community. Her work aims to reinvent notions of creativity and confidence in the realm of Blackness.
Endia Beal is a North Carolina–based artist, curator, and author. Her editorials have appeared in print and online in the New York Times, NBC, BET, National Geographic, Essence, Marie Claire, and Newsweek, among others. Beal’s work has been exhibited at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, NC; the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, Detroit, MI; and the Aperture Foundation, New York, NY, and her photographs are in private and public collections, including The Studio Museum in Harlem, Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago, and Portland State University. Beal is a fellow of the Center for Curatorial Leadership and has completed residencies at Harvard Art Museums, the Center for Photography at Woodstock, and the McColl Center for Art + Innovation.
