Drawn from multiple portfolios of Letitia Huckaby’s work and presented distinctively in embroidery hoops, on flour sacks, and sewn into patchwork quilts, Beautiful Blackness taps deep into the historical entanglements surrounding African American life in the rural American South. This exhibition was held in conjunction with the Houston-wide FotoFest 2020 Biennial: AFRICAN COSMOLOGIES— Photography, Time, and the Other.
"Beautiful Blackness is a visual pilgrimage following the path of Exodusters, African Americans who migrated from states along the Mississippi River to Kansas and Oklahoma in the late nineteenth century, and an exploration of the remains of Freedmen's towns across the south. It is an elegy for a lost promised land." -- Letitia Huckaby