WHERE WE FIND OURSELVES

EVENTS + PROGRAMS

SEP 05

OPENING CEREMONY @ FREEDMEN’S TOWN VISITOR’S CENTER

SEP 06

IN-CONVERSATION WITH SATCHEL LEE @ SANMAN STUDIOS, HOUSTON, TX

NOV 21

IF THESE HOUSES COULD SING WITH MO NIKOLE + AMARIE GIPSON

Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (CAMH) and Houston Freedmen’s Town Conservancy (HFTC) will present a virtual program in response to Where We Find Ourselves, Satchel Lee’s solo exhibition at the Row House Galleries in Freedmen’s Town. The program brings together sound artist Mo Nikole (blkwomanmusiq) and curator Amarie Gipson (The Reading Room) to highlight the Black archive through a woman’s perspective.

Mo introduces a listening altar blending archival recordings, speeches, and music by Black women, creating a sacred sonic space of memory and resonance. Amarie extends these themes with a curated selection of books and archival materials that honor Black women voices and histories. Together they offer a gathering of sound and text that echoes the exhibition’s exploration of memory, place, and cultural survival, and is made available to the public through Satchel Lee’s online platform.

JAN 08

CLOSING CEREMONY @ FREEDMEN’S TOWN VISITOR’S CENTER

THE READING ROOM

Curated by The Reading Room HTX’s Amarie Gipson, Where we Find Ourselves offers an intimate space in House 3 at the Row House Galleries that invites visitors to slow down and engage with texts that offer context, provocation, and inspiration.

For those unable to visit in person, we’ve brought the Reading Room online. Explore the full selection digitally below.

A Century of Black Photographers:
1840-1960

Tenderness: A Black Queer Meditation on Softness and Rage

Alice Coltrane, Monument Eternal

Belonging: A Culture of Place

Betye Saar, Black Girl's Window

the black interior:
Essays by Elizabeth Alexnader

Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye (First Edition)

Black Women Film and Video Artists (AFI Film Readers)

Satchel Lee, Even Still

Cosmologies From the Tree of Life:
Art from the African American South

Adrian Piper, Escape to Berlin: A Travel Memior

Kerry James Marshall, Mementos

Citing Black Geographies

Citizen: An American Lyric

Torkwase Dyson, A Liquid Belonging

Daughters of the Dust:
The Making of an African American Woman's Film

Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America

Christina Sharpe, Ordinary Notes

Black Is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time, and Mine

Toni Morrison, Jazz

A Movement in Every Direction:
A Great Migration Critical Reader

Cauleen Smith, Human 3.0 Reading List 2015-2016

Otherwise/Revival

Promise, Witness, Remembrance

In Search of African American Space:
Redressing Racism

Garrett Bradley, Devotion (Re:)

Carrie Mae Weems, Reflections for Now

Samuel Fosso, Photofile

Tate Photography: Liz Johnson Artur

Shala Miller, Tender Noted

Sarah M. Brook, The Yellow House

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