REDEMPTION: Public Art for Community Voices

Join us for an exploration of African American history, both its challenges and triumphs, and how this past connects to the present in a work of community-driven public art: the Redemption project. Community Design Collaborative, together with Williamsburg Biannual is pleased to present REDEMPTION: Public Art for Community Voices as part of the 2025 Archtober program. Recently unveiled, REDEMPTION honors the African American history of Huntington Township in Long Island, New York drawing inspiration from Jupiter Hammon, the first published African American poet in the Americas. Rooted in the township's history, the project amplifies the voices of Huntington's African American community in their own words.

REDEMPTION was designed by collective, a faculty-and-student collaboration at Thomas Jefferson University. The program features a presentation by collective designers and professors Andrew Hart, and Grace Ong Yan, joined by their students, followed by a discussion moderated by Scott Ruff, Adjunct Associate Professor at Pratt Institute and Co-Director of The Coles House Project, and Tya Winn, Executive Director of Community Design Collaborative. The event will open with an introduction by Irene Shum, Curator and founding Vice President of Williamsburg Biannual. The event is free of charge with registration.