Tomashi Jackson and Nia Evans: “Pedagogy Study Hall” — Structures of cultural support

The Center for Art, Design, and Visual Culture (CADVC) hosts an Exploratory Research Residency that invites artists and interdisciplinary collaborators to take advantage of scholarly resources and to build partnerships at UMBC and in the Baltimore region. In 2025, CADVC hosts Tomashi Jackson’s “Pedagogy Study Hall” project as part of this program.

In collaboration with policy analyst and economic advocate Nia Evans, Tomashi Jackson’s “Pedagogy Study Hall” project will host a series of intermedia series of public discussions about investment and disinvestment in the arts and humanities, looking to Baltimore as a critical case study in grassroots organizing in a system of gross structural inequity.

Baltimore offers a critical forum for exploring a range of formal and informal organizational approaches to arts education and community development through the arts. It also provides an important model for exploring informal cultural economies that support local art education and production in the interstitials between, and in the absence of, major financial investment.

Public programs associated with this residency:

February 25, 6–7 p.m.: Conversation with Tomashi Jackson and Nia Evans, Lion Brothers Building, 875 Hollins Street, Baltimore.

Sign up for limited spaces will be available via this link.

April 8, 5:30–7 p.m.: Conversation about structures of cultural support with Ryan Patterson, Nick Hartigan, and Denise Griffin Johnson, at the Lion Brothers Building, 875 Hollins Street, Baltimore.

Admission is free, and reservations are required.

April 15, online, 6–7 p.m.: Panel on education history and policy with Davarian Baldwin and Matt Cregor.

Admission is free, and reservations are required.

Image: Tomashi Jackson visits CADVC for a public program in Spring 2024, with an image of Nia Evans projected on screen in the background. Photo by Tedd Henn.