Camille Turner is an artist and scholar whose work bridges historical research and Afrofuturism. The culmination of a joint residency with the museum and Slavery North, Land of the Free is an exhibition featuring cinematic works that memorialize enslaved Africans and confront the overlooked histories of transatlantic slavery in Canada and the northern United States. Highlights include the new film 80 Died of Flux and Flu (2025), alongside Nave (2022) and Fly(2024), as well as a New England–focused installation of her Afronautic Research Lab project.
As artist-in-residence at Augusta Savage Gallery, Angel Abreu embarks on an artistic exploration of the novel James, Percival Everett’s Pulitzer Prize-winning reimagining of Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, told from the perspective of the formerly enslaved Jim.