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Helina Metaferia
Artifacts 1, 2025
Mixed media, hand-cut, and assembled collage
41.25 x 31.25 inches framed
HM095
Copyright The Artist
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Bibliography: Fisk University Library Special Collection • Ellis, Jimmy, The Nashville Tennessean article, “Lunch Counter Strike Spreads…Store Stops Food Service,” Feb 21, 1963. • Unknown, The Nashville Tennessean article,...
Bibliography:
Fisk University Library Special Collection
• Ellis, Jimmy, The Nashville Tennessean article, “Lunch Counter Strike Spreads…Store Stops Food Service,” Feb 21, 1963.
• Unknown, The Nashville Tennessean article, “Lunch Counter Strikes Hit City…One
Effect,” Feb 13, 1960.
Nashville Public Library Special Collections, Nashville Banner Archives
• Goodman, Bill, Segregation - March on Courthouse, April 14, 1967.
• Gunter, Jack, Poor People's March to Washington. D.C. 1-3, May 8, 1968.
Exhibitions
Syntropy. 21 Nov.-20 Dec. 2025, Praise Shadows Art Galley, Brookline, MA.When Civilizations Heal. 6 May-17 Aug. 2025, Project for Empty Space, Newark, NJ.

