Today, Nov. 5th, 3-4 pm, CADVC in collaboration with the Dresher Center will present, "Save Our Block: Public Art/Humanities & Activist Print Culture in Baltimore," both in the gallery and online. (See link and more options to join below).

This discussion, with Nicole King and Markele Cullins, will be joined by Tomashi Jackson and Nia K. Evans on Zoom, and will focus on the collaborative and collective work discussed in the article "Save Our Block: Public Humanities, Zines, and the Connecting the Classroom" in The Routledge Companion to Publicly Engaged Humanities Scholarship (Routledge, 2024).

This program is presented in connection with "Pedagogy Study Hall," a research project, exhibition, and publication by Tomashi Jackson and Nia K. Evans exploring the structures that sustain our cultural and educational systems.

Markele Cullins is an interdisciplinary artist from Baltimore, MD currently based in Los Angeles, CA. They received their BFA from the University of Maryland Baltimore County and are currently an New Genres MFA candidate at UCLA. They explore and ask questions about the human condition through play, experimentation, and embodied research. Grounded in the Black radical imagination, their practice creates spaces for catharsis and contemplation. Cullins was a founding member of Oak Hill Center for Education and Culture, and co-founded 4C Gallery, an online gallery for artists of color. They also collaborate with communities and students as a designer to create zines preserving Baltimore public history.

Nicole King is a professor in the Department of American Studies and co-director of the Orser Center for Public Humanities at UMBC in Baltimore, MD. Her research focuses on issues of place, power, and the tensions between historic preservation and economic development. She is an editor of the book Baltimore Revisited: Stories of Inequality and Resistance in a U.S. City (Rutgers University Press, 2019 - which features a photo by Cullins on the cover) and co-founder of the Baltimore Traces: Communities in Transition public humanities project. She is currently working on The Ungentrifiable City, a book project focusing on a history of holdouts–the residents and small business owners who challenge extractive development on Baltimore's westside from the 1970s to today. 

Tomashi Jackson is an interdisciplinary artist whose work merges painting, printmaking, video, and performance with research into histories of policy, segregation, and civil rights. Her work has been presented at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, ICA Philadelphia, the Parrish Art Museum, and in the 2019 Whitney Biennial, and is in the collections of the Whitney Museum, the Guggenheim Museum, and the High Museum of Art.

Nia K. Evans is Executive Director of the Boston Ujima Project, a member-run cooperative building solidarity economies through cultural and financial infrastructure. With a background in education and policy, Evans's work emphasizes facilitation, access, and democratic participation. She is editor of the forthcoming Pedagogy Study Hall publication.

This program is sponsored by the Wagner Foundation, the Maryland State Arts Council, the Baltimore County Commission on the Arts and Sciences and the Citizens of Baltimore County, and the Arts+ initiative at UMBC.

We are free and open to the public for full participation by all individuals under applicable federal law, state law, and the University's nondiscrimination policy. Contact us ASAP to request specific accommodations at cadvc@umbc.edu or 410-455-3188.
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