Rowan Jack Freeman

Selected Works
   Alchemy Architects    
   Hive & Hollow    
   Photography
   Scoops, Swoops, and Hoops 
   House is Table
   Congress for Bees
   The Lifespan Project
   Long-Span Plant-Stand
   Earth Song
   Soon: Marine Trade School

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Earth Song: A Black Nature Walk
Research Work
Exhibition, Web, Program, + Signage Design
University of Michigan Department of African and Afroamerican Studies
 Professor: Bénédicte Boisseron

The project was exhibited at Matthaei Botanical Garden + Nichols Arboretum.
Exhibition design work while working as the research assistant for the Black Ecologies Project, led by Professor Bénédicte Boisseron, chair of the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies at the University of Michigan. “Earth Song, A Black Nature Walk” is on display this fall in the Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum. 

Black ecology is the study of Black people in relation to their environment and nature. In 2022, poet and scholar Joshua Bennett curated an outdoor exhibit at the New York Botanical Garden guided by the work of Black poets. Two years later, we recreated a similar experience in the Arb with a selection of poems from Camille T. Dungy’s anthology, Black Nature. 

Through our work and the contributions of students from AAS 498, we created an immersive exhibit featuring a wide variety of interpretations and themes.


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