Virtually visit the Race and Revolution: Home/Land exhibition at Latimer House, through 6/14

[Image Description: Text saying “Race Revolution” and in smaller letters “Home/Land” is placed against a white circular background, around which is an area all round of peach and green.]

Curated by Katie Fuller, Race and Revolution: Home/Land, is the fourth in a series of art exhibitions at the Lewis Latimer House that confront historical patterns of systemic racism in the United States.

Home/Land looks at the influence of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 on Lewis Latimer’s family, focusing on the tactics used to detain, deport, and re-enslave “runaways” with current practices used by Immigration Customs Enforcement to control the influx of immigrants, refugees, and asylum seekers. The exhibition pairs true stories of those who escaped or attempted to escape slavery in the years surrounding the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 with current experiences of families attempting to migrate to the United States with the hope of finding a home in the land of the free. The exhibition features works by Tasha Douge, Sylvia Hernandez, Peter Hoffmeister, Ann Lewis, Sheridan MacKnight, Lorena Molina, Sejin Park, Jade Sackler. Due to the Coronavirus, the gallery is shut, but you can read more about the artists and Lewis Latimer House here.