After Marion Stokes: Collecting, Collections, Collectors
In conversation with artist Cameron Granger, alongside scholars and curators Jovonna Jones and Angela T. Tate.
The Boston Ujima Project Inc. presents Soon and Very Soon: Radical Alternatives to the Given, to explore alternative visions of curation and institutional practice, hosted jointly by Ujima’s Arts & Cultural Organizing team and Wagner Foundation.
After Marion Stokes: Collecting, Collections, Collectors - July 31, 2025 from 6-8PM
Gervais Marsh, moderator.
Panelists:
Angela T. Tate, Chief Curator and Director of Collections at the Museum of African American History, Boston and Nantucket (MAAH)
Cameron A. Granger, Artist
Jovonna Jones, Writer, cultural historian, Assistant Professor of English and African & African Diaspora Studies at Boston College
Across the globe, arts organizations, archivists, curators and collectors are re-imagining the art world from the outside in, exploring innovative alternatives within and beyond the institution. Through these conversations, we will negotiate the radical potentials of cultural production, collecting, space-making. This series contemplates and complicates the context and significance of creating alternative strategies and methods.
Our conversations will depart from three urgent questions:
Where can we discover alternative spaces or approaches to seeing and understanding the histories and aesthetics of Black radicality?
How can we create new pathways to evade the mechanisms that work to capture, consume and capitalize on our beauty?
What kinds of resources can be cultivated to allow the work to maintain its emergence sustainably?