Toby Sisson: ‘Bearing Witness’ Exhibition and Gallery Talk
Type
Video
Date
11-12-2025
Description
Join us for a lunchtime gallery talk to celebrate an exhibition by Clark University professor Toby Sisson that explores oral history from the Great Migration — the movement of 6 million Black people from the south to the north between 1910 and 1970. Sisson’s artwork is a visual meditation on her late father’s origin story in the Mississippi Delta and the family narrative constructed by its retelling. Composed as a series of collages that portray abstract truths in the absence of material proof, these pieces from her An American Journey series counter silences within the historical record of Black America. Professor Asha Best will facilitate.
Recommended Citation
Clark University, "Toby Sisson: ‘Bearing Witness’ Exhibition and Gallery Talk" (2025). Clark University Video Archive. 363.
https://commons.clarku.edu/videoarchive/363
