The Resilience Project: Centering Black Heritage in St. Augustine, Florida, Florida Association of Museums, February 2023.
First Generation College Student Workshop, facilitator, Flagler College, February 2018.
High School to College: First Gen Student Zine Workshop, co-facilitator, Change the World RVA, March 2017.
Facilitator and Workshops
Collaborations
Resilience: Black Heritage in St. Augustine was a year long collaboration between cultural heritage organizations highlighting history and culture of Black Americans living and working in St. Augustine. We created a website with resources.
Resilience Family Fest, held in 2022 and 2023, featured dance and musical performances, food trucks, historical reenactments, pop-up exhibits, arts and crafts activities, at the Solomon Calhoun Center.
The exhibition “Magic, Mirth, and Mortality: Musings on Black Motherhood” and related programming is a collaborative project between the Crisp-Ellert Art Museum (CEAM), St. Augustine Historical Society (SAHS) and the Lincolnville Museum and Cultural Center (LMCC). Originally organized by Hope McMath at Yellow House in Jacksonville, “Magic, Mirth and Mortality” is inspired by the lived experiences of writer, curator, wife and mother Shawana Brooks, and celebrates the resilience of Black mothers through the lens of visual and literary art, and historical and archival objects. Centered on Brooks’ during her pregnancy and the premature birth of her son Roosevelt, the “musings” are shown alongside artwork by Cheryl McCain, Marsha Hatcher, and Tatiana Kitchen, supplemented with local and national statistics on infant and maternal mortality rates, inequity in healthcare access, and institutional bias against Black women.