@fashioningtheself: In "Afric-American Picture Gallery," William J. Wilson offers a physiognomic description of Phillis Wheatley in Picture XXI. To represent this part of the essay in my exhibition, I selected a first edition of Wheatley’s groundbreaking volume "Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral," held in the Winterthur Library’s collection. Sound plays a significant role in the exhibition and, for this section, I asked Elizabeth Way, curator at The Museum at FIT, to recite Wheatley’s poem “On Being Brought from Africa to America.” Way previously curated "Ann Lowe: American Couturier," which was mounted in the same gallery as my exhibition. Full disclosure: Elizabeth and I are friends, and we frequently traveled together from New York City to Wilmington while working on our respective exhibitions. Her inclusion in this project serves multiple purposes: it gestures toward a recent landmark exhibition in the same space, acknowledges the vital presence of past and present black feminist voices in my curatorial approach, and offers a subtle, insider nod to our friendship and ongoing intellectual exchange. #almostunknown

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