ADAMA Arts Salon #38
Join us for ADAMA's upcoming virtual Arts Salon. Sierra King to moderate a conversation on the topic of invitation, Preservation and Documentation into Her Pactice, with panelists Zakiya Collier and keondra bills freemyn.
About Moderator: Sierra King is a multidisciplinary artist, archivist and curator. Her introduction to archiving began with her Great-Grandmother, Annett L. Battle, a well-known child-care provider in the Collier Heights neighborhood of Atlanta,Georgia. She is the founder of Build Your Archive, a memory work lab where Black Women Artists build their archives in real time. Currently, she is a Sweet Auburn Artist-In-Residence at Remerge Atlanta.
Zakiya Collier: Zakiya Collier (she/they) is a Black, southern, queer, disabled archivist and memory worker based in Brooklyn, NY. At the age of six, Zakiya began stewarding the collection of photographs, certificates, artworks, and mementos documenting her life and the lives of her loved ones. She is a member of Shift Collective where she supports communities in collectively developing cultural memory practices and designing sustainable programs to autonomously preserve and share their own stories. Their recent work includes serving as the first Digital Archivist at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Project Archivist at Weeksville Heritage Center, Archivist for the visual artist, Marilyn Nance; and Co-Editor of a special double issue of The Black Scholar on Black Archival Practice.
keondra bills freemyn: keondra bills freemyn is a DMV-based archivist, writer, Wikipedian, and former US diplomat originally from South Central LA. She is founder and director of the digital humanities and archival discovery initiative Black Women Writers Project and recently served as the inaugural Project STAND coordinator, focused on ethical documentation of student movements at University of Maryland College Park. She is a Society of American Archivists Digital Archives Specialist and has worked on oral history, digital transcription, and metadata projects centering marginalized communities with the Library of Congress, Smithsonian, New York Public Library and DC Public Library.