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About the Artist: Nekisha Durrett | GENIUS LOCI From vast freestanding sculptures to intimate gallery installations, Nekisha Durrett’s work leverages unexpected materials to make visible the historical connections and connotations that places and materials embody but are overlooked in our day-to-day lives. Whether reimagining pre-colonial landscapes, bygone Black communities, or family lore, Durrett’s research-driven practice strives to carve out contemplative spaces and offer opportunities for viewers to consider what is revealed or concealed when information is filtered across time. Durrett earned her BFA at The Cooper Union in New York City and MFA from The University of Michigan School of Art and Design as a Horace H. Rackham Fellow. She is currently the Howard University Social Justice Consortium’s (SJC) Artist in Residence Fellow. Her work is included in numerous private collections and public institutions, including The National Museum of African American History and Culture and The Phillips Collection in Washington, DC. Durrett’s current works investigate individual and collective histories while mining the leavings of our built and natural environments to confront instances of erasure. Queen City, a recently unveiled public sculpture for Arlington, VA allows park goers to reflect on a forgotten history of displacement while it stands tall and vigilant in a busy metropolitan park. Genius Loci, a sculptural work in progress, redirects the ancient meaning of the word “genius” back to landscape and spirit while celebrating Black contributions to music and architecture in West Palm Beach, Florida. In May 2023 Durrett’s proposal Don’t Forget to Remember (Me) was selected by Bryn Mawr College’s ARCH Project in partnership with Monument Lab. As a site-specific public artwork for Bryn Mawr’s ongoing legacy as an institution with exclusionary practices, Don’t Forget to Remember (Me) calls out the responsibility institutions have to use our past to inform our present and to intently build and rebuild the groundwork for our future. Don’t Forget to Remember (Me) is slated to be unveiled in Spring 2025.