Student-Led Exhibitions
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"Taking health records and things normally discussed in doctor's offices and putting them in the art gallery ... That is essentially what I'm doing. Actually, replicating my doctor's office and placing it in an art space is what I'm doing. And I'm calling that art. Because why would it not be?"
-Anosacha Peete-Meyers
Anosacha Peete-Meyers is everything that Whiteness does not value. They have named this burden– this role, “Thee Black Mule”-- the polar opposite of the institutional value system most commonly upheld at Colby College. She is a creative practitioner working across media to curate spaces for black joy. Peete-Meyers is a Houstonian, by way of Colorado, a part-time academic and a full-time intellectual. On October 10th, 2020, they were diagnosed with HIV and began treatment ten days later. She is currently preparing to be an international human rights lawyer working to support her emotional support animal, Knox, and her brand new plant babies.
An immigrant from Guinea whose family resides in Louisville, KY, Maimouna Cherif is a poet currently attending Colby College. Developing a deep passion for literature and spoken work following her interaction with her school's English as a Second Language program in 2010, Maimouna has since written her own chapbook and has participated in her state's Governor's School for the Arts. Previously strictly a writer of prose, Cherif has found comfort and beauty in the anarchical nature of poetry and uses it to alleviate the immense stress of everyday life-- articulating what at times seems ineffable or unimaginable. When not creating art, Cherif can be found sending delayed reactions in her family's group chat or building community with friends at the Pugh Center, or overreacting to scenes from overly dramaticized shows.
An immigrant from Guinea whose family resides in Louisville, KY, Maimouna Cherif is a poet currently attending Colby College. Developing a deep passion for literature and spoken work following her interaction with her school's English as a Second Language program in 2010, Maimouna has since written her own chapbook and has participated in her state's Governor's School for the Arts. Previously strictly a writer of prose, Cherif has found comfort and beauty in the anarchical nature of poetry and uses it to alleviate the immense stress of everyday life-- articulating what at times seems ineffable or unimaginable. When not creating art, Cherif can be found sending delayed reactions in her family's group chat or building community with friends at the Pugh Center, or overreacting to scenes from overly dramaticized shows.
