Jessica Womack

art historian in training. studying art of the Caribbean and Black Diaspora. project manager of @ArtHxProject. I’ll never give up my 504 number ⚜️ she/her

[Art Hx @ArtHxProject]

Less than two weeks until our conversation with @nloois - How does experience in critical-care nursing influence his art making today? We'll touch on monuments, time, COVID-19, and dance, with question time too. Free and open to the public. #medhums #art #medicine

[Jessica Womack @JessWomack16]

@RyanCecilJobson Amazing!

[Art Hx @ArtHxProject]

At 12:30 Eastern time (in 4 hours time) come to our discussion on the "Politics of Contamination" to learn about how communities are impacted by toxic waste - and how they respond. Register here: https://t.co/rwmNUDPNOr

[Jessica Womack @JessWomack16]

*gleefully awaits the fall*

[Amy Nixon @texasrunnerDFW]

The Airbnbust is upon us

#Airbnb

[Jessica Womack @JessWomack16]

Last year, Dr. Edna Bonhomme @jacobinoire joined @ArtHxProject as a one of our inaugural Interpretive Fellows. Check out Dr. Bonhomme’s contribution:

[Art Hx @ArtHxProject]

In “More than an Image: Black Women Healers at the Helm of Modern Gynecology,” Art Hx 2021-22 Interpretive Fellow Dr. Edna Bonhomme highlights the essential role that Black people, specifically Black women, have played—willingly and unwillingly—in the development of gynecology.

[Jessica Womack @JessWomack16]

Check out our work over at @arthxproject with the brillant and oh so generous @sarahkkhan

Sarah made a digital work (see below) as last year’s Art Hx artist in residence 🤩

[Art Hx @ArtHxProject]

Each year, the Art Hx team invites an artist to complete a residency. The 2021-22 Art Hx Artist-in-Residence was Sarah Khurshid Khan ⁦@sarahkkhan⁩.

To learn more about Khan, the digital work she created, and this residency, check out the link below. https://t.co/yRRUut9Gbk

[Jessica Womack @JessWomack16]

@fjherrera90 Imma just sit at home and wait for the video of the kids voguing in the school library to alien superstar. Maybe the HS orchestra will come off summer break and join in

[Dr. Alex Kolker @AlexSKolker]

A new satellite images shows emerging mouths bars- teardrop shaped islands in #Louisiana. These is where Neptune Pass, a new channel carrying ~15% of the Mississippi River, meets Quarantine Bay. This may be one of the largest deltaic land building events in decades.

[Jessica Womack @JessWomack16]

Follow along as we share more details about @ArtHxProject and introduce our three frameworks! #pathologiesofdifference #cultivatingcare #medicalizedspace

[Art Hx @ArtHxProject]

Interested in learning more about Art Hx?

Art Hx explores the entanglements between art, medicine, race, and colonialism through three core frameworks: Pathologies of Difference, Cultivating Care, and Medicalized Space. 1/2

[edna bonhomme, phd @jacobinoire]

My latest article in @e_flux on contagion on the plantation.

[Fashioning the Self in Slavery and Freedom @FashioningSelf]

As some of you might know, I am currently a curatorial fellow in the Costume Institute at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Join me next week on Monday, May 16 at 2-4pm. I will reflect on my contributions to "In America: An Anthology of Fashion." https://t.co/HsS6k4ejW3

[Duke University Press @DukePress]

"A study published last year in the journal @ReadDemography...found banning abortion nationwide would lead to a 21% increase in the number of pregnancy-related deaths for all women and a 33% increase among Black women." https://t.co/tfkxjHmNiw

[Jessica Womack @JessWomack16]

@emollick @fflicla

[mabelowilson @NegroBuilding]

Honored and excited to be sharing my work with a great group of artists, scholars and activists. Tune in!

[Jessica Womack @JessWomack16]

Join us for day 2 of the Art Hx symposium, curative / spaces!

[Art Hx @ArtHxProject]

Happening now! @daniellaking @nloois #paigepatchin #curativespaces https://t.co/GgGVYan8S8

[Jessica Womack @JessWomack16]

Join us tomorrow! To register: https://t.co/sf6eItFWAh

[Steven Greenhouse @greenhousenyt]

Breaking: Undergraduate students at Grinnell College just won the first wall-to-wall undergraduate union in the United State in a landslide 327 to 6 vote.

The union will cover every hourly student workplace, in dining halls & elsewhere on campus.
https://t.co/gksSSipdc5

[Jessica Womack @JessWomack16]

Three cheers for @AnnaArabindan 🎉🎉🎉

[Jessica Womack @JessWomack16]

@estelabdiaz 🥳👏🏾👏🏾 congrats and happy happy!!

[Jessica Womack @JessWomack16]

Check out this text, “More than an Image: Black Women Healers at the Helm of Modern Gynecology,” written by 2021-22 Art Hx Interpretive Fellow Dr. Edna Bonhomme @jacobinoire! Thanks Dr. Bonhomme for your generous contribution, which brings together 3 images.

@ArtHxProject

[edna bonhomme, phd @jacobinoire]

My latest essay for @ArtHxProject contrasts modern medicine’s representation of Black women as objects in textbooks with Black women as knowledge subjects in art. I cite Christina Sharpe, Deirdre Cooper Owens, @surlybassey, & more https://t.co/rTe0IVeC3Z https://t.co/tbhqTnPZQt