How do you know home? What gives you a feeling of belonging? What place evokes that certain resonance? Artist in Residence Tracian Meikle invites you to an exploration of home. What does it mean to lose and find home? What are the homes of our ancestors? How do their longings live in our bodies and show up as our own? How is Lagos home for you? During the afternoon, Tracian will explore the different places she has called home and invites you to do the same. Bring one item, one story, one song that breathes home. We will sit and ponder on this together.

Tracian Meikle is a Jamaican curator, educator and artist most recently based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, who focuses on blackness, place-making and community building. She is the co-founder of Amsterdam Black Women – a collective committed to creating a nurturing and safe space for black women seeking community. As a moderator, Meikle has led conversations with numerous thinkers and artists, including Lola Shoneyin and Angela Davis. Most recently, she was a part of the W139 exhibition, “That Those Beings be not Being”, as a part of the creative duo, the WILD – which serves as a laboratory on black fugitivity rooted in art and literature. She is a part of the 8th Asiko Art School cohort, the critical residency space for professional artists and curators from across the African continent and diaspora.