Restorying the Native Southeast

Anne Firor Scott Fellow Nikki Locklear reflects on an evening filled with love, pride, and gratitude for community.

 

The Collective’s display at Bass Connections is a humanist island in a sea of science and tech projects. The students’ presentation of their research work is deliberately (one could say, even, politically) hand-made. In reflection of the collaborative nature of their research, they have compiled their separate projects with the Reitz archive into a single, scrap-booked posterboard, flanked by a record player upon which one of Rosetta’s records is spinning away. Reitz’s book on menopause is laid out, next to several of her albums

The human process of making meaning in and of the world is intertwined with the material world; certain objects we engage with become bearers of life’s stories. In this project, we’ll create spaces for reflection on a life, starting with a meaningful object selected by the interviewee.