Cashville’s Carlos Partee and Michael Ewing joined forces to curate an archive of photographs showing the people of North Nashville yesterday and today, and they presented it in a compelling and moving exhibition at 100 Taylor. Ewing called it an expression of Black self-affirmation. They mined Fisk University’s Special Collections archive to find images of Black-owned businesses, and invited local photographers to exhibit portraits taken in recent years. The best part was the family archive that Partee contributed: Snapshots of his family members through generations invited conversations about how we tend to our family histories and why we should.
Best Archive Project
