#Latergram: The Jagged Path exhibit team meets at BRAHM

Image description: Curatorial team assembled in front of BRAHM. (Left to right) Gabe Wilson, BRAHM executive curator; Fred J. Hay, project music curator; Marie Cochran, project art curator; Willard Watson, BRAHM programs director, and project manager; Laurie Goux, project dance curator.

On July 14 we hosted our first in-person meeting for our upcoming exhibit, The Jagged Path: the African Diaspora in Western North Carolina in Craft, Music, and Dance. This exhibit will illuminate the obscured history of African contributions to craft, music, and dance in Western North Carolina. Drawing connections from the 17th through 21st centuries, the Jagged Path will demonstrate how African traditions that survived the Middle Passage have helped create the culture of Western North Carolina through interviews, performances, historic artifacts, artist residencies, and more. We can't wait for y'all to see this exhibit when it is open from May-October 2022!

This project is made possible by a grant from the Blue Ridge National Heritage Area Partnership.