Date of Graduation

5-2025

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Fine Arts in Art (MFA)

Degree Level

Graduate

Department

Art

Advisor/Mentor

Turner, Aaron R.

Committee Member

Sytsma, Janine A.

Second Committee Member

Hartenberger, Craig

Third Committee Member

Cassiano Alvarez, Renata

Keywords

Adornment; African American Art; Southern African American

Abstract

Being born and raised in the South, it has become clear to me that acts of adornment and cultural representations of home are a prevalent factor of the Southern archive. Trouble don’t last always considers the various elements of coloniality that saturate function within the Southern Black home, noting that acts of adornment and cultural representations of home are a prevalent factor of the Southern archive. Enumerating the various roles that Black women play as place makers while also navigating elements of coloniality. In turn these spaces do not function without their knowledge production. This knowledge is one that becomes generational and is inherited through actions of their foremothers.
and I am in great debt to mine. I’ll be humming hymns of your love and kindness forever.

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