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Community Engagement

Project type

Quilting & Film

Date

2023

Location

New Jersey

RDPL is a storytelling archival project. RDPL will unpack themes associated with memory, and legacy. The artist will collect and archive audio stories from Black women elders from the Newark area. Together they will create a group quilt consisting of traditional quilt making materials, audio and video stories and songs, shadow box stories, and other immersive mediums.

Red Dirt and Pot Liquor

Red Dirt and Pot Liquor (RDPL) is a storytelling archival project. RDPL unpacked themes associated with memory, and legacy. Our team collected and archived stories from Black women elders from the Newark area.This short film serves to memorialize the lived experiences of twenty-one (21) women in and around Newark, New Jersey

Funded by: Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts
Project for Empty Spaces
New Jersey Arts and Culture Recovery Fund
Newark Arts Accelerator

Founder/ Executive Producer/ Director: Antoinette Ellis-Williams, Phd
Video/Film Producer: Video/Film Producer
Director of Photography: Dominique Jean
Video Team: Corey Brumfield and Maxine Antoine
Production Assistant: Vanessa Arteaga
Additional Photography: Ché Williams

Special Thanks: New Salem Baptist Church
Reverend Jonathan White, Senior Pastor

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