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For over two decades, Candice Breitz (born Johannesburg, South Africa 1972) has joined video, portraiture, and popular culture to question the stories we listen to as we make sense of a society rife with inequality, injustice, and suffering. Her work examines how our fascination with celebrity, the 24-hour news cycle, and social media have diluted our attention spans and ability to empathize.

This exhibition features two multichannel video installations, shown together for the first time, from a yet-to-be-completed trilogy: TLDR (2017) and Love Story (2016). Each work occupies two rooms, offering alternate narrative approaches to distinct humanitarian crises. The first room of each work provides a highly edited, entertaining, cinematic approach. In the second room of each work, an archive of extensive first- person interviews invites longer periods of lingering and listening.

“Justice and the Vote” will explore and assert the centrality of Black politics in American legal and justice system transformations of the United States through the 19th century — drawing a connecting thread to the present-day grassroots mobilization of Black women and families continuing these structural transformations through advocacy amplified by collective voting power.

What is a fossil? How do they form? How can you find your own? All these questions and more will be answered in this brief introduction to Maryland’s rich fossil record by avid fossil hunter Mason Hintermeister. Q and A Session will follow presentation.

The fabric of racism is inextricably woven and constructed into the founding principles of the United States. However, racism was done and can be undone through effective anti-racist education with, and in accountability to the communities most impacted by racism.

Brittany Oliver will facilitate a workshop on how to divest from racism and prejudice at all levels and explain why it is important to show solidarity.