I Didn't Come Here to Stay
I Didn't Come Here to Stay: Selected Works by Letitia Huckaby
Exhibition
Mon, Oct 23–Mon, Nov 24
Campbell East Wing Gallery
Gallery Talk & Reception
Fri, Nov 14, 12 PM
Campbell Van Lengen Lobby
Acclaimed artist Letitia Huckaby uses photography as a tool to explore Black American heritage, cultural traditions, and faith. Her research-based practice combines prints and fabrics, reexamining history and its contemporary connection to the black experience through portraiture.
Huckaby will join curator Johnica Rivers for a conversation about her work.
About the Speakers
Letitia Huckaby (b. 1972, Augsuburg, Germany) has a degree in journalism from the University of Oklahoma, a BFA in photography from the Art Institute of Boston, and she holds an MFA from the University of North Texas in Denton. She has been included in various exhibitions notably at Art League Houston; Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth; Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, TX; the Tyler Museum of Art, Tyler, TX; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR; the Studio School of Harlem; and the Texas Biennial at Blue Star Contemporary Art Museum, San Antonio. Her work is included in several collections, including the Library of Congress; the McNay Art Museum, San Antonio; the Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont; and the Samella Lewis Contemporary Art Collection at Scripps College, Claremont, CA. Huckaby was named the 2022 Texas Artist of the Year by Art League Houston.
Huckaby is the Co-Founder of Kinfolk House, a collaborative project space in Fort Worth, Texas. She lives and works in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
Johnica Rivers is a peripatetic curator and writer rooted in Texas, who lives and works between New York and North Carolina. She is Curator-at-Large of Art on the Land, a North Carolina Historic Sites initiative through which she curates site-responsive installations, proposes commissions and acquisitions, and advises on special projects. Her recent exhibition projects include A Sojourn for Harriet Jacobs and Letitia Huckaby: Memorable Proof. She is the co-editor, alongside Alexis Pauline Gumbs and Michelle Lanier, of the Sojourning volume of Southern Cultures published by UNC Press for the Center for the Study of the American South.
Presented by UVA's Center for Cultural Landscapes, with support from the Mellon Foundation and the Sara Shallenberger Brown Endowment.