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Endia Beal, an artist, educator, and photographer from North Carolina is coming to Davidson. Endia Beal is no stranger to Davidson College. Her film Mock Interview was featured in the Van/Every Smith Galleries' spring 2020 show "True Likeness." Always pushing the boundaries and hoping to bring to light social and racial injustices, in Mock Interview, Beal confronts the racism and misogyny women of color face everyday in the workplace. Beal started by collecting questions young women of color entering the work force were asked during interviews, all of which consistently pointed to discrimination and misogyny. Beal then flipped the narrative,...

Meet Alice Berndt, one of the returning interns on staff at the Van Every/Smith Galleries! Alice Berndt is a Senior studying English and Art History at Davidson College from Maplewood, New Jersey. Learn more about Alice: What has been your favorite exhibition during your time at Davidson? "'The American Library' by Yinka Shonibare in 2018!" Check out the exhibit here: https://www.davidsoncollegeartgalleries.org/dcag-exhibitions/yinka-shonibare-mbe-the-american-library/ What is your favorite thing about working in the gallery? "Getting to learn about all the amazing artworks that the college owns and interacting with artists!" What are you most excited to do this semester in the art gallery or...

Dr. Rose Stremlau is an Associate Professor of History at Davidson College specializing in the study of the Indigenous South; American Indian women, gender, and sexualities; families and kinship; federal Indian policy; and sexual violence in American History. Her book Sustaining the Cherokee Family: Kinship and the Allotment of an Indigenous Nation, was published by the University of North Carolina Press and won the 2012 Willie Lee Rose Prize from the Southern Association for Women's Historians. Dr. Stremlau has kindly provided a reading list in conjunction with Nicholas Galanin's exhibit Dreaming in English. The readings provide historical background and context to many of...