Virtual
Part of the Columbia Oral History MA Program’s 2024-25 ReMemory: Experiments in Listening, Authorship and Knowledge-Keeping Series:
A Conversation on Black Archives [Virtual Event]
Black Archives is a “gathering place for Black memory and imagination.” Charlie is a research-based visual artist and author of Black Archives: A Photographic Celebration of Black Life (2023). Current project: In the summer of 1977, the American Folklife Center of the Library of Congress established the South-Central Georgia Folklife Project. Cherlise’s work examines the fieldwork practice of Dr. Beverly J. Robinson, educator, and folklorist, who documented the communities and traditions of rural southern Georgia.
Renata Cherlise is a research-based visual artist and author of Black Archives: A Photographic Celebration of Black Life (2023). Cherlise uses various mediums to explore themes of identity, family, and culture. Her work seamlessly bridges her Southern upbringing with contemporary methodologies in digital and physical spaces while reimagining notions of the Black experience. Her archival project, Black Archives, has evolved from a photo-based website of visual narratives into a collaborative platform featuring archival histories and modern-day stories from across the African diaspora.
