Baltimore native and artist SHAN Wallace will moderate a conversation between Afro Charities Executive Director Savannah Wood and author Arianne Edmonds about their families’ legacies in the Black press and Edmonds' new book, We Now Belong to Ourselves. Both descend from newspaper founders whose work during Reconstruction and the Jim Crow era provided alternative narratives of Black life in America.
Arianne Edmonds is a fifth-generation Angeleno, civic leader, and founder of the J.L. Edmonds Project, an initiative dedicated to preserving and sharing the histories of Black communities in the American West. Drawing from her family archives dating back to the 1850s, her work emphasizes the role of memory, legacy, and storytelling in shaping public understanding of Black history.
SHAN Wallace is a nomadic award-winning interdisciplinary artist, archivist, and image-maker, from Baltimore, MD. Wallace utilizes a range of mediums to weave narratives and imagine new stories. Rooted in image-making techniques such as photography, film, and collage, as well as in situ installations, these mediums serve as the foundation of her artistic practice.
Savannah Wood is an artist with deep roots in Baltimore and Los Angeles. As the Executive Director of Afro Charities, Wood is leading the charge to increase access to the 130 plus-year-old AFRO American Newspapers’ extensive archives. In this role, she has shepherded the organization through a period of historic growth, initiated new programming, and attracted support from national funders including the Mellon Foundation, the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and The Ruth Foundation.
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