Resilience through material memory.
The search for proof continues today. Trudith Dyer (Upper Mattaponi) creates mixed-media art like Paper Genocide (2019) to commemorate her family’s resistance to archival erasure.
Coulter Fussell’s quilt-works like Trials of the Earth (2025), use community textiles and video stills on chiffon to map Southern landscapes of memory.
Preservation is the interdisciplinary act of empowering the mirror.
When we validate these objects, we ensure that the next visitor to our archives finds a reflection of themselves, not a void.