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Fri, Oct 24
|ArtsXchange
From Stono to Now: The Fire This Time | Artist Talk
Hear from artists on the art of resistance.
Time & Location
Oct 24, 2025, 6:30 PM
ArtsXchange, 2148 Newnan St, East Point, GA 30344, USA
About the Event
From Stono to Now: The Fire This Time | Black Resistance in American Art, 1739 - Present
Opening Reception: 3-6 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 18, 2025 | Artist Talk: 6 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 24 | On View: Oct. 14 - Nov. 22
The Jack Sinclair Gallery is free and open to the public from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday
Curator's Statement by Najee Dorsey
From Stono to Now: The Fire This Time
Black Resistance in American Art, 1739 - Present
“If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.” — Frederick Douglass
From the Stono Rebellion of 1739 to the murals of Atlanta and the marches in Ferguson, the language of resistance has always been spoken — in movement, in memory, and in the marks we make upon the world.
From Stono to Now: The Fire This Time charts a powerful lineage of Black rebellion and creative defiance, presenting a curatorial arc that spans uprisings, visionaries, and visual declarations of freedom. This exhibition brings together works from multiple exhibited collections that speak to our shared legacy of protest, self-determination, and survival.
Featured works include:
Traci Mims’ searing depictions of Sojourner Truth, Fred Hampton, and Huey P. Newton, which honor the lineage of Black radical thought and leadership.
Jamaal Barber’s To Be Free and Underground Railroad, which visualize both the physical and spiritual journey toward liberation.
Najee Dorsey’s Gullah Jack and Google Robert Charles, brought to life through evocative photomontage and mixed media, reminding us that rebellion is rooted in American soil.
Kevin Williams and other contemporary voices challenge and expand the narrative, anchoring today’s resistance in the textures of daily Black life, love, and refusal.
“This is not nostalgia — it is testimony. A living archive.”
From sugarcane fields to city blocks, from coded quilts to bullhorn chants, From Stono to Now frames the art of resistance not as relic, but as a roadmap. As the fires of change continue to burn, it asks:
What does resistance look like today — and are we ready to carry it forward?
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From Stono to Now: The Fire This Time | Artist Talk Oct. 24
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