Remains // an Archive presents Slavery in Motion

Join them at the Baltimore Museum of Art on Jan. 16th, from 6:30 - 9:00 pm

On January 16, 2025, from 6:30-9 PM EST, join the Remains // an Archive team at the Baltimore Museum of Art for a conversation on Slavery in Motion, a multimedia art collection interpreting the life of Molia, an African woman and mother who was enslaved in Westmoreland Parish, Jamaica in the eighteenth-century. Featuring works by artists Romaine McNeil, Tatiana Esh, Sha-Shonna Rogers, and Julia Mallory, the collection explores Molia’s story through lenses of motherhood, fugitivity, resistance, grief, and the relationships she built with other enslaved people. Each work conveys an aspect of Molia’s life through a variety of visual, poetic, and sonic mediums.

The conversation will feature the Remains team - Jessica Newby, Kevin Ah-Sen, and Samantha Stephens - as well as the artists listed above. Closing remarks will be provided by Dr. Jessica Marie Johnson. 

The event is free and open to the public. 

The works in the Slavery in Motion collection are currently on display at the Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture in Charleston, SC.

Read full details about the event on the BMA’s website.

Learn more about Remains // an archive’s work here, and check out an in-depth interview with Jessica Newby here.

This event is being co-sponsored by The Diaspora Solidarities Lab, LifexCode: Digital Humanities Against Enclosure, The Johns Hopkins University Center for Africana Studies; The Program for the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality; The Billie Holiday Center for Liberation Arts (Inheritance Baltimore); and The Program in Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies; with additional support from Eindevr | Data Science for the Digital Humanities.