It was one of my greatest professional honors to serve as the Collections Manager of Weeksville Heritage Center, an incredibly unique historic site and museum in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. And one of my favorite projects was collaborating with Nona Hendryx, Afro-Futurist and legendary musical artist (one-third of the 1970s group Labelle), her talented Dream Machine Studio team, and a coalition of Weeksville staff and scholars. I helped curate imagery from our collection and institutional archives that underpinned a multimedia, augmented reality mural that visually and acoustically told the story of the 19th-century free Black community and the activists who saved it from being forgotten. The May 1st opening gala event was a joy–especially when elders who grew up on the block met and embraced the artists who reinterpreted their experience.
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