Freedom Dreams

Arthur Jafa (b. 1960, Tupelo, Mississippi) is an artist and filmmaker. Jafa grew up between Tupelo, Mississippi, and the Mississippi Delta and witnessed the tensions associated with both desegregation and continued segregation. With a career spanning over three decades, Jafa uses multidisciplinary work to reference, discuss, and question the meaning and potentialities of Black experiences."

David Hartt (b. 1967, Montreal, Quebec) lives and works in Philadelphia, where he is an associate professor in the Department of Fine Arts at the University of Pennsylvania. Hartt's interdisciplinary work unpacks the social, cultural, and economic complexities of his various subjects. He employs extensive research to examine the multitude of ways historic ideas and ideals persist or transform over time. His work has included an array of media—including video, sculpture, sound, photographs, and found materials—to investigate time, place, and sociocultural moments and attitudes.

Garrett Bradley is an American artist and filmmaker. Her multimedia work blends elements of filmmaking—documentary, video art, cinema—to delve into themes of oppression and conflict as they relate to place and location.[2] Garrett Bradley is an American artist and filmmaker. Her moving-image practice examines history, place, and the racial and economic politics of everyday life.