By Guest Columnist CHARMAINE MINNIEFIELD, activist and visual artist. My great-grandmother’s name was Ora Lee Fuqua. She was born on a sharecropping plantation in Central City, Ky. We were owned by the Fuqua family, a prominent white family in the South and beyond. My work retraces her story by recalling the Ring Shout. Praise houses […]
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Charmaine Minniefield, a visual artist and activist, explores African and African-American history, memory and ritual as an intentional push back against erasure. Through a collaboration with Emory University, Minniefield was awarded the prestigious National Endowment of the Arts Our Town Grant to present her Praise House Project in three different locations in the metro Atlanta area to celebrate the African American histories of those communities.
