Join the Augmented Society Network and visualise the history of free women of colour.
For this month’s Augmented Society Network event, Sawyer Rose, FRSA, MRSS Visual Artist, and Angela Williams Bickham, MFA, MA Independent Researcher and Poet, will be speaking about a collaborative project they have been working on titled With My Name in Your Hand.
Free women of colour – women of African descent living outside the bonds of slavery during the pre-civil war period in the United States – were part of a diverse, dynamic segment of society and often played crucial matriarchal roles in their families. With My Name in Your Hand memorialises the vibrant lives of these free Black women through large-scale sculpture and historical fiction as poetry.
More information on this event:
- Sawyer and Angela discuss their project and collaboration
- Q&A
- How to get involved in the 'Creativity offers us a new formula for life project'
Join the Augmented Society Network to learn:
- About this fascinating and arguably understudied Antebellum demographic, while coming to a poignant understanding that these free women lived during an extraordinary time in United States history and their experiences deserve to be remembered
- How to get involved in the 'Creativity offers us a new formula for life ASN Project'
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The Augmented Society Network is an RSA US Thematic Network founded in 2019 by two RSA Fellows with a passion for humankind. The network meets to discuss the impact technology is having on society and will continue to have in the coming weeks, decades and centuries. To learn more about the Augmented Society Network, go to https://www.augmentedsociety.org/.
Photo attribution: The original image may be accessed via Unsplash and is the work of McKenna Phillips.