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In Conditions of Fresh Water is a multimedia black spatial history project with visual artist Torkwase Dyson and environmental social scientist and Danielle Purifoy. Traversing post-Bellum black communities in Alamance County, NC and Lowndes County, AL, in Dyson’s mobile solar powered Studio South Zero, Dyson and Purifoy collaborate with community members to create an assemblage of oral histories, artifacts, images, and materials to understand the traditions and nuances of black environmental, cultural, and economic placemaking.
news
http://www.dukechronicle.com/article/2017/01/environment-nich
http://www.scalawagmagazine.org/in-conditions-of-fresh-water/
https://arts.duke.edu/artsjournal/taking-environmental-legacy-racism
https://nicholas.duke.edu/about/news/phd-student-danielle-purifoy-embarks-journey-document-environmental-legacy-racism
http://wunc.org/post/structural-racism-display-new-exhibition#stream/0
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Brenda and Omega Wilson
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Brandy Wilson, Omega Wilson, Danielle Purifoy
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Ayo, Brenda and Omga Wilson
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Graves Family, Eleanor, Remi, Harlece
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Remi and Harlece Graves
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George Wilson
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George, Heyden, Virginia Douglas, and Omega Wilson
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George and Danielle
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Virginia Douglas
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Evon Connally
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Les Williamson
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Danielle and Wilson
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Mary McClendon
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Rylanda Ellerbe
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Harlece and Danielle listening to Eleanor
Studio 2 Charlottesville, VA
Second Street Gallery brought me in for a solo show. I left SSZ in Charlottesville so other artist could use it. Warren Craghead, the director sent out and artist call and invited Katie Wood to use the space.
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and then there was cladding. Thank Martin Horn Construction and Second St. Gallery.
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Remodel
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SSZ_Charlottesville Va
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SSZ_Charlottesville Va
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Warren Craghead_Charlottesville Va
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SSZ_Charlottesville Va
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