"We need the harm to stop in our communities. We need the damage to be repaired. We need to be able to have the opportunity to have a life of dignity, and the possibility to thrive."

-Opal Tometi, Co-founder, Black Lives Matter movement

As the Preservation and Protest: Racial Justice Collections Care fellow with the Midwest Art Conservation Center and the George Floyd Global Memorial I’ve worked on a variety of grassroots collections activities. This includes art handling, general collections assessment, conservation documentation, collection database use, and technical research and writing. During this process I gained first-hand experience of art conservation evaluation techniques and approaches through participation in preservation work at the Memorial and other collecting institutions in the region. In effort to care for each person’s offering at the memorial, community members volunteered daily to preserve the collective story of protest. It has been a deep honor and privilege to continue to care for the artifacts as creative expressions of memory as we seek justice together. Through this experience I helped curate the first pop-up exhibition titled “Still Here.. Unstolen. Unbroken.” that opened in the community. Watch This Video to Learn More About My Work.

Process Archive