Streamed live on Sep 8, 2023 SAN FRANCISCO PUBLIC LIBRARY - Full video here

This event provides artists, community archivists and historians with information on how to protect their creative legacy in this day and age. The presentations are contextualized by the history of cultural appropriation of Black creative production and will help participants understand how the resources represented on the panel can help to prevent such egregious violations in the future. Event Presenters: Tracy Brown, the event organizer, is an independent curator, artivist, sculptor, installation artist, photographer, public presenter, guest lecturer and Capacity Building Consultant. Tracy is also the founder and director of Bridges Diasporic Arts. Today, she teaches independent workshops to resilient populations. Tracy serves as a Workshop Leader with the Center for Artistic Activism and as an independent creative consultant. Kwadwo Duane Deterville, the event’s facilitator, is an artist, writer and scholar of visual culture. As the Co-founder of Sankofa Cultural Institute Kwadwo produced three symposiums on the history and aesthetics of Jazz. In 2015 he received the Visual and Critical Studies department’s alumni award and was the second scholar to receive the honor. Deterville is currently lecturing faculty for San Francisco State’s Africana Studies Department. Cassidy Cole is the product education lead at Artwork Archive. She is dedicated to helping artists boost productivity, gain visibility, preserve their artistic legacies and craft sustainable careers. Janet Hicks is Vice President and Director of Licensing at Artist Rights Society, and serves on the Executive Committee of the visual arts arm of CISAC, known as CIAGP, the International Council of Creators of Graphic, Plastic, and Photographic Arts. Andrea Sexton Dumas is the co-founder of Digital Roots Studio, a family-owned and operated digitization house in Albany, Ca. As a digital preservationist and storyteller, she deeply values intergenerational exchange, instilled in her by her grandmother and niece. Presented by Bridges Diasporic Arts in Collaboration With The San Francisco Public Library with funding from the California Arts Council and the African American Tobacco Control Leadership Council. Contact Tracy at 415.527.0332 or tracy [at] bridgesda.org with Questions.