Course Information

Instructor: Mali Collins

Location: Internet

Mode: Online

Dates: July 28–August 1, 2025

Tuition: $1200.00

Course Description

This online course offers students available frameworks made by black, brown, and indigenous communities which offer art as document of their lives and state-sanctioned violence. Given that most if not arguably *all* marginalized groups experience some sort of violence related to institutional sites of memory, this course looks toward art—novels, visual impression, oral history and much more— to examine historical events and experiences that communities pass on as knowledge. At the end of this course, students will have expanded knowledge on theories and approaches to the idea of a “document,” as well as possible ways to expand their own bibliographies or collections to include various forms of art as documentation rather than ornament.

The boundaries of this course will be focused on the continental United States, with specific credence given to the Southern United States and the Mid-Atlantic regions. It will complement other courses such as Tonia Sutherland’s Curating the Digital Afterlife: Analog Histories and Digital Futures and Rebecca Sheffield’s Queer and Feminist Archival Practices.