Special Collections will host a visit/presentation with Sauda Mitchell, our Samuel Gladding Fellow, where she will discuss her artist’s book she has created for our collections. The title of her remarks is To Tell Her Glories with a Faithful Tongue, which will pay homage to the literary and cultural contributions of Black Women Writers through the lens of archival material analysis and letterpress printing. This work of art in book form features student text inspired by course readings and analysis of primary sources from Special Collections, including the Maya Angelou Film & Theater Collection, Phillis Wheatley’s Poems and pamphlets. To Tell Her Glories with a Faithful Tongue embodies connectivity of thought, creativity, ideas, and reflection through poetry, letterpress, printmaking, and materiality. Refreshments will be served. Pease register for this event here.

Afterwards, you are invited to attend the University’s Commemoration for the Enslaved at Wait Chapel from 4:30-5:00. Members of the university community will remember and honor the enslaved individuals who worked for or were sold to benefit the university.