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Thesis Exhibitions

Intimate public gatherings for shared study. Our exhibitions curate the individual studies from local artists and archivists into a collective learning experience for our community.

A contextualizing archive for ancestral, intuitive, and subjective memory-keeping. Consisting of material, written, visual, and sonic ephemera this archive is oriented by our intuitive pedagogy and interdependent research development. Thesis collections and exhibitions are regularly produced to concentrate the archive’s scope and engage in re-membering as a social practice.

Archive Caretaker Presentation | 2024

March 24 — April 21, 2024 at The Salt Eaters Bookshop in Downtown Inglewood, CA

The archives belong to the people, together we will take care of our histories in order to figure out our futures. The Archive Caretaker Fellowship is a collective learning experience empowering the intution and curiosity of local artists, thinkers, and doers. The second iteration of this fellowship program concluded with a public presentation at The Salt Eaters Bookshop inviting community to join in witnesing the overlooked histories, imagined futures, and cultural considerations developed by the indidivuals in the cohort.

Each fellow animated their material artifact by producing a progam and sitting for an artist talk that provided context to the fellow’s archival process and offered additional pathways for community to recognize their capacity as caretakers of ancestral knowledge.

artists & archivists
Asha Grant
Crea Jackson
Ephraim Owairu
Dr. Sharla Berry

programming
March 31: A Listening Bar Experience: Stevie Wonder’s ‘Innervisions’ on Vinyl | by Crea Jackson
April 07: Work Ain’t Working: Black Women and the Anti-Work Movement | by Dr. Sharla Berry
April 14: ‘rumenation' and its ruminations | by Ephraim Owairu
April 21: Radical Journaling Circle | by Asha Grant

curation
Altagracia Alvarado
Marvin James

partners
The Salt Eaters Bookshop