Performance Studies alum Sarah Jane Cervenak's (PhD '05) second book, Black Gathering: Art, Ecology, Ungiven Life (Duke), was recently named as an inspiration in painter Lindsay Adams' current show, Ceremony (Irene and Richard Frary Gallery, Johns Hopkins University). In Black Gathering, Cervenak engages with Black artists and writers who create alternative spaces for Black people to gather free from interruption or regulation. Adams' Ceremony explores the histories of Black movement, migration, and world-building.
This news comes as Cervenak's first book, Wandering: Philosophical Performances of Racial and Sexual Freedom (Duke), celebrates officially being in the world over a decade.