Professor Clareese Hill has received a Mills Institute Innovation Lab Grant for her project “The Practice-based Artistic Archive: Unearthing Early Black Stories in New England.” For this project, Clareese Hill is partnering with Artist collaborator Elisa H. Hamilton. Mills Institute explains, “Dr. Hill will be collaborating with artist and researcher Elisa H. Hamilton, a socially engaged multimedia artist. Together, they are continuing their research project originally commissioned by Emerson Contemporary for the multiyear Un-Monument initiative with the City of Boston, investigating underrepresented narratives of Black life in early Boston. Working with the Museum of African American History (MAAH) archives in Boston and Nantucket, the project focuses on moments of non-legibility, community care praxis, and abolitionist work. Rather than emphasizing well-documented history, their research highlights the “in-between” stories—the connective tissue of the abolitionist movement.
