Shawana Brooks, Executive Director, Moving the Margins, Jacksonville Cultural Development Corp. announces the following:

If activists are made and not born, how do we work through tragedy together to make a sustainable difference?

Through his art, artist Overstreet Ducasse brings us closer to examining our obsession with gun possession. Gun violence reverberates in any city where it then becomes a dominant issue for a neighborhood. As Jacksonville’s murder rates continue to rise, over-policing is no longer a singular issue to retraumatizing those affected daily.

While no community is immune, a few have more resistance depending on the resources that are allocated to serve their interests. In underserved communities, circumstances stemming from systematic practices to continued racial dissonance can capsize any improvement or derail progress from activist movements.

Saturday, August 14 | 7:00 PM | The Great Hall at The Jessie

We are honored to have Jacari W. Harris, Executive Director of The George Floyd Memorial Foundation, Inc. as a special guest speaker and our Executive Director Shawana Brooks, at the Triggered: Catalyst to Activist opening. Jacari is a social justice activist, inspirational speaker, and author of “Lost and Found: Finding Success in The Search for Self.”  

Directly following will be an Artist Talk with Overstreet Ducasse discussing his latest series of works Sign of the Times.

Moving the Margins is an immersive artist-in-residence program that redefines civic engagement. This groundbreaking artist-in-residence program is an incubator for BIPOC artists to collaborate with the change agents of Jacksonville to create accessible, immersive art installations and public programming that catalyzes our community toward action.

Visit movingthemargins.org for more information.

Gallery hours are Monday through Friday, 9:30 am to 5 pm, or by appointment on weekends and after hours. For press and other inquiries please email the gallery at shawana@jcdcjax.org.