Created by MFA student Lulu Hamissou, Seeing Slavery is an exhibit that tells the stories of Laura Clark, Carrie Davis, and Delia Garlic – three, separate African American women who were previously enslaved. With information from the slave narrative Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers’ Project, 1936 to 1938, Hamissou created her exhibit to “share the resilience and experiences [of Clark, Davis, and Garlic]” and how their resilience can be observed through their “survival, family or community, and religion.” With this exhibit, Hamissou is also challenging the typical depiction of enslaved people in art as figures “in the back of the composition or below the plan of the main subject . . . [lacking features] or excessively flat and [with] dark pigmentation, ridding them of significance” different from a utility to their oppressors.

Seeing Slavery will be in the Round House Gallery until April 14^th, available for viewing every weekday from 9:00 AM – 4:30 PM.