Harriet Tubman (2020) was included in ‘Free as they want to be’: Artists Committed to Memory which closed in March 2023. The exhibition considered the historic and contemporary role photography and film have played in remembering legacies of slavery and its aftermath. ‘Free as they want to be’ examines the social lives of Black and white Americans within the context of the land, at home, photographic albums, at historic sites and in public memory.
The exhibition was curated by Deborah Willis, Ph.D., Professor and Chair of the Department of Photography & Imaging at the Tisch School of the Arts, and Cheryl Finley, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Art History at Cornell University.
The catalogue, found here, includes 20 artists working in photography, video, silkscreen, projection, and mixed media installation: Terry Adkins, Radcliffe Bailey, J. P. Ball & A. S. Thomas, Sadie Barnette, Dawoud Bey, Sheila Pree Bright, Bisa Butler, Omar Victor Diop, Nona Faustine, Adama Delphine Fawundu, Daesha Devón Harris, Isaac Julien, Catherine Opie, Yelaine Rodriguez, Hank Willis Thomas, Lava Thomas, Carrie Mae Weems, Wendel A. White, William Earle Williams. The book is edited by Cheryl Finley and Deborah Willis.