Join Hills & Hamlets Bookshop in welcoming AIR Serenbe current resident artist Jessica Ingram for an artist talk & book release celebration. Tickets are available here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/an-evening-with-air-serenbe-resident-jessica-ingram-new-book-release-tickets-87441163875

About the Book
At first glance, Jessica Ingram’s landscape photographs could have been made nearly anywhere in the American South: a fenced-in backyard, a dirt road lined by overgrowth, a field grooved with muddy tire prints. These seemingly ordinary places, however, were the sites of pivotal events during the civil rights era, though often there is not a plaque with dates and names to mark their importance. Many of these places are where the bodies of activists, mill workers, store owners, sharecroppers, children and teenagers were murdered or found, victims of racist violence. Images of these places are interspersed with oral histories from victims’ families and investigative journalists, as well as pages from newspapers and FBI files and other ephemera.
With Road Through Midnight , the result of nearly a decade of research and fieldwork, Ingram unlocks powerful and complex histories to reframe these commonplace landscapes as sites of both remembrance and resistance and transforms the way we regard both what has happened and what’s happening now—as the fight for civil rights goes on and memorialization has become the literal subject of contested cultural and societal ground.

About the Artist
Jessica Ingram works with multi-media and the archive to explore the ethos of communities, and notions of progress and resistance in American culture. Raised in Nashville, Tennessee, she received her BFA from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and her MFA from California College of Arts & Crafts in San Francisco. Ingram received the Santa Fe Prize for her work Road Through Midnight: A Civil Rights Memorial, a distinguished fellowship from the Hambidge Center for the Arts, and is a recurring Visiting Artist and Scholar at Columbus State University in Georgia since 2013. Her work has been featured in California Sunday Magazine, The New York Times, Oxford American, Vice and Wired Magazine. Her traveling solo show Road Through Midnight was recently exhibited at the National Civil Rights Museum, Tennessee State Museum, and Duke University’s Center for Documentary Studies.
Ingram was included in Southern Accent: Seeking the American South in Contemporary Art at the Nasher Museum, traveling to the Speed Museum. Her collaborative projects have been featured at the Sundance Film Festival and installed permanently at Oakland International Airport, Birmingham International Airport, and Oakland Museum of California.

Ingram’s book Road Through Midnight: A Civil Rights Memorial is forthcoming from University of North Carolina Press in 2019 and will be available for sale during the event, or you can reserve a copy through eventbrite beforehand. Complimentary refreshments will be provided during the event courtesy of AIR Serenbe.