Envelope
- Cacie Rosario Jackson
- Graduate Fine Arts Department, Weitzman School of Design
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Student Creative Production Grant
The (majority Black-owned) business and recreational corridor on Jefferson Street, including the Chitlin Circuit music venues, were entirely wiped out to construct Interstate 40. Lorenzo Washington, founder and curator of the Jefferson Street Sound Museum, recreated a map of the former businesses. Photo taken at Jefferson Street Sound Museum (Nashville).
Envelope is a body of art works that engages archives of Black cultural production – seeking to make the sonic and sensory visible. The project consists of photography, video, sound, and drawings that focus on the interwoven histories of the Chitlin Circuit and explore the ways Black performance, cultural production, and radio overlap to express transgenerational storytelling. The Chitlin Circuit was a network of performance venues across the United States (primarily active between the 1930s-1970s) where Black musicians and performers could safely perform and enjoy music. Through Envelope, Cacie Rosario Jackson uses Black musicians tools and methodologies to explore the ways we collectively witness, remember, and pass stories on.
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