The People’s View: Constructing History through Collective memory is an article published by the San Fransisco Musem of Modern Art in April 2018. _______ Mike Dixon first met Rein Jelle Terpstra in a bowling alley parking lot in Elkton, Maryland, in 2015. Terpstra, an artist from the Netherlands interested in the connections between perception and…
Month: October 2019
Lynchings – Documenting a Violent Chapter in Cecil County’s Past
The Maryland Lynching Memorial Project is working to open a discussion about a violent chapter in Maryland’s past, racial terror lynchings. These troubling incidents have not generally been studied or documented, so little is known about this grim history. Thus, the project is working to address this gap in our understanding of these episodes of…