Humble Arts Foundation presents a conversation between Granville Carroll and Ohemaa Dixon, our first video interview. Carroll and Dixon’s rich discussion begins with Afrofuturism as a shared personal touchpoint and reveals much about how it influences and connects their creative practices.

I first saw Granville's work as I curated the juried exhibition Who Are You? for the Colorado Photographic Arts Center. Drawn from the Black Serenity series, Granville Carroll’s enigmatic self-portrait interrogates representations of Black bodies. As Dixon describes it, her recent project 3436 "addresses the graphic and visual trauma of lynching photograph," concentrating and recontextualizing generational trauma as a place of growth and redefinition. Dixon's work will be on view virtually through Candela Gallery in the exhibition Unbound, which opens on July 3rd. Also, be sure to check out Carroll’s work in the Lenscratch: Storytellers June 2020 installment.

As so much arts programming takes place online in this pandemic time, video conversations are a new format for us, and we hope to do more. We’ve included a volley of Dixon and Carroll’s work below to help contextualize the conversation.

Please let us know what you think by dropping a note to hello@hafny.org.

Roula Seikaly in conversation with Granville Carroll and Ohemaa Dixon