Rachel Bubis: In your current body of work, you explain that collecting is part of your practice. Have you always collected stuff? If so, what are some examples of your collections? Where does this desire come from, to keep hold of things? Thomas Sturgill: I collected baseball cards and whatnot, as a kid, but I think my main influence is that I grew up on family land in a house that contained multiple generations worth of stuff in it. Random...
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Hanna Seggerman: How have your childhood memories and experiences, like spending time in your aunt’s salon, influenced your artmaking practice? Ashanté Kindle: When I think about my childhood memories in relation to hair, there are so many experiences that have allowed me to develop a true love for the important role hair plays in my identity. Hair has always been a way of connecting with those I love. I also always saw hair as a form of expression and cre...
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"The history and experiences of Southern Post Removal era Native Americans, mixed-blood African and European Americans, and immigrants have faded into time and lay in the pages of dusty unopened archives, the minds of their descendants, the edge of the latter’s psyches, often forgotten altogether. When one thinks of the South, these people do not come to mind. It is generally perceived and assumed that the South exists only in Black and White, metaphorically, and “racially”. The narrative that I pres...
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