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A woman with a dark skin-tone. She wears glasses and a black face mask and is seated at a table in discussion with someone. She is wearing a cream-colored shirt printed with red poppies. She holds up her hands while gesticulating.
Photo by Tedd Henn

Pedagogy Study Hall: Conversation with Tomashi Jackson and Nia K. Evans

February 25, 2025 6PM–7PM

CADVC hosts an Exploratory Research Residency that invites artists and interdisciplinary collaborators to take advantage of scholarly resources and to build partnerships at UMBC and in the Baltimore region. In 2025, CADVC supports Tomashi Jackson’s “Pedagogy Study Hall” as part of this program.

In collaboration with policy analyst and economic advocate Nia K. Evans, Tomashi Jackson’s “Pedagogy Study Hall” will host an intermedia series of public discussions about investment and disinvestment in the visual arts and humanities. Baltimore offers a critical forum for exploring a range of formal and informal organizational approaches to arts and humanites education and support.

The city of Baltimore has a rich, archived, and living history to be explored to help us understand a rubric for identifying the outcomes for funding public visual arts and humanities efforts. Art history is a social history, and we want to see what it looks like from the establishment of the National Endowments for the Arts and Humanities – federal level funding – to the state level, city level, and then what that means among community-based organizations. We’d like to record these stories, and facilitate private and public discussions with Baltimorians – both transplants and multi-generational – where they can share their reflections on what the public arts and humanities have meant in public space to them as participants in schools for the arts and programs that may no longer exist. It is important to document these histories so that we can turn that lens, this logic, this structure, onto other cities and communities. Because across the country, this experience of rapid divestment is having real impacts on educational and human outcomes for everyone.

– Tomashi Jackson

A person with a dark skin-tone. They wear a light blue sweater and a dark green beanie speaks to a group. They are gesticulating with their left hand, pointing her thumb in that direction
Photo by Tedd Henn
Photo of a person with a dark skin-tone and a New York Jets hat reading from a book. They use their left hand to hold open the book.
Photo by Tedd Henn
A woman with a dark skin-tonewearing a black face mask, glasses, and a floral shirt holds up a newspaper. The front page features a full-page photograph with the title "fortunately."
Photo by Tedd Henn
A woman with a dark skin-tone. She wears a black face mask, glasses, and a floral shirt holds up a red duotone book. The title on the cover reads, "Tomashi Jackson: Brown II."
Photo by Tedd Henn

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