Rick Lowe: Greenwood Art Project A Visual Poem by resident visual anthropologist Marlon F. Hall.
What does it mean to gather a community around a history still living within it?
Funded by Bloomberg Philanthropies through its Public Art Challenge and directed by Lead Artist Rick Lowe, the Greenwood Art Project brought artists, community members, and businesses into an encounter with Greenwood’s history—the flourishing of Black Wall Street, the devastation of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, and the stories carried forward.
Through Lowe’s story, this Visual Poem explores art as a practice of gathering, remembering, and imagining what comes next.
THE ECOTONE OF AWTY An ethnographic film collaboration between Marlon F. Hall and the Krams, led by Dr. Johnny Chu.
Following a series of ethnographic filmmaking master classes with Marlon F. Hall, the Krams—a group of renegade student storytellers—turned their cameras toward their peers. Through interviews and shared inquiry, they explored the stories living within their school.
The Ecotone of Awty invites us into the dwelling and tension of cultural encounter: a school representing the world to the city, and the city to the world. A place where listening becomes a practice of belonging.
What happens when a school becomes a place to listen to the world?
An Imani School Story Relic: A former educator at The Imani School, Hall returns with a deep sense of connection and care for the community that helped shape his own journey.
This Story Relic becomes both a reflection and a continuation—an offering that bridges past and present through the voices and presence of its students. Through his study turned film, Hall reveals a portrait of a learning environment where identity is cultivated, not imposed. At its core, the project centers Imani—faith—not as an abstract idea, but as something lived and expressed. Through filmed moments of honesty, imagination, and self-discovery, students are invited to be seen as they are, and as they are becoming. What emerges is not performance, but presence. Not perfection, but authenticity. The resulting film is a visual poem—one that honors the inner lives of these students while expanding the narrative of what is possible for them, and for all of us. This is Story Relic. Where story is not just told— it is witnessed, held, and remembered.
FIRE IN THE BONES A four-stanza Story Relic by Marlon F. Hall, created for Jack and Jill of America, Inc.
What kind of fire do we carry into the work of serving others?
Set within Texas Southern University’s Barbara Jordan–Mickey Leland School of Public Affairs, Fire in the Bonesgathers the living exchange between emerging youth leaders and public servants at the Teen Leaders Legislative Summit.
Through dialogue, reflection, movement, and witness, civic leadership becomes testimony, inheritance, and embodied possibility. Young people encounter the fire carried by those who came before them—and consider what they will carry forward.
A living archive of what was said, and the spirit moving through the room.
It all started when…
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