Echoes Across Latitudes: Geographies of Grief & Joy

Featuring:

Ashley E Lazarre, Amanda Shea, Malaika Ogukwe, Marian Taylor Brown

September 29 - October 3, 2026

Celebration & Open Mic: Friday, Oct 2nd | 5-8P

Sign up for an open mic slot here

Tea & Ancestral Altar: Saturday, Oct 3rd 2-5P

More About Echoes Across Latitudes: Geographies of Grief & Joy

Echoes Across Latitudes: Geographies of Grief & Joy features multi-media artists Amanda Shea, Malaika Ogukwe, Ashley E Lazarre and Marian Taylor Brown, who invite the many textures of grief and joy to emerge as they navigate their respective journeys and tell their unique yet inextricably interconnected stories. Embodying and practicing with community, artists will activate the Greensboro Project Space galleries, creating public work daily for the week-long in-process exhibition. This honors the iterative, and at times circular, nature of grief, inviting the artists to embodiment as they create with one another and the wider UNCG community.

A multi-modal community celebration will take place on Friday, October 2nd from 5-8pm, featuring an Open Mic in collaboration with the Divine Drops starting at 7pm.

A grief ritual and ancestral honoring will take place on Saturday, October 3rd, a closed practice for the participating artists, followed by a Community Altar and Tea from 2-5 pm, open to the public.

More About the Artists

Ashley E Lazarre

Ashley is a creative and scholar who focuses on the representation of Black womanhood through fashion, storytelling, and digital media.

Learn more: IG @_aelle_

Amanda Shea

Amanda is an interdisciplinary, Emmy-nominated and multi-award-winning poet, educator and curator.

Learn more: IG @amandasheaallday

Malaika Ogukwe

Malaika is a multidisciplinary artist and consultant, centeirng well-being, somatic movement, and healing-centered leadership. She curates themes of identity, imagination, and transitions.

Learn more: IG @by.malaikaaa

Marian Taylor Brown

Marian is a soul activist, cultural strategist, and death doula. The unifying thread in all of Marian’s work is a steadfast dedication to creative justice.

Learn more: IG @mariantaylorbrown