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Afrofuturist Cheyney McKnight Lecture
September 7 @ 3:30 pm – 5:00 pm
Cheyney McKnight, artist, historian, and founder/owner of “Not Your Momma’s History” will share a curated experience through Black America’s past to an imagined future. Her exhibit, on view at Jamestown Settlement for one weekend only, explores her approach to Afrofuturism; one in which Black bodies and communities finally reap the full benefits of their labor, resources, ingenuity and creativity.
She will present a lecture on her work, Saturday, September 7 at 3:30 p.m. in the Robins Foundation Theater. This is free however space is limited and registration for each individual is required, register here.
McKnight graduated from Simmons University in 2011 with a Bachelor’s in Political Science. In 2021, McKnight became an African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund Fellow for the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Her project, titled “The Ancestor’s Future: An Afrofuturist’s Journey Through Time,” was a piece of performance art and a conversation inspired by Afrofuturism about the future of historic preservation on former sites of enslavement. McKnight uses clothing designs that meld modern textiles that speak to the Black experience in America with 18th and 19th-century silhouettes.
