Killing the Negative: A Conversation in Art & Verse combines the meticulous and sensitive drawings of artist Joel Daniel Phillips with powerful poems by distinguished writers, including lead poet, Quraysh Ali Lansana. In 2019, while looking through old photographs, Phillips stumbled upon a 1936 image by Walker Evans. A gaping black hole in its center stopped Phillips in his tracks. Curiosity led him to more hole-punched negatives, all originating from the Farm Security Administration (FSA),...

Poetics of the Photographic: Language of Resistance  brings together artists who push photography beyond its material limits, using its grammar of light, index, and trace to examine how images operate as tools of investigation and interrogation—means through which histories are not only recorded but actively contested. The works gathered here are photograph-adjacent: sculpture, poetry, drawing, and performance inhabit photography’s conceptual terrain without adhering to its traditional...

During the December, 2025 meeting of Tri-City Collective's Real Talk series, panelists discussed the Muscogee Creek Nation Freedmen's history and fight to gain citizenship for themselves and their descendants. eir descendants.elves and their descendants.