Nancey B. Price
October 9th, 4pm
Hope Room, Higgins Welcome Center & Livestreamed
Co-Sponsored by the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies, the Affirming Multivocal Humanities Mellon Grant, and the Jane Cotton Ebbs Endowed Professorship in Philosophy

In this two-part event, Nancey B. Price—Black collage artist, storyteller, and rural Georgia native—explores how Black Southern life, especially in rural communities, is a foundation for future-thinking. Her lecture will blend personal narrative, visual art, and literary storytelling to examine the ways in which tending land, preserving culture, and imagining new worlds are inherently Afrofuturist acts. Drawing connections between her creative practice, Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter, and the film, Sinners, Price makes the case for centering the Black rural South in pop culture’s vision of what’s to come. On the second day, Price invites participants into a hands-on community collage workshop, where they will use images, memory, and imagination to explore and share their own personal stories and collective visions of the future.

Nancey B. Price is a Southern-born collage artist, storyteller, and cultural worker whose work uplifts the everyday lives and imaginative futures of Black rural communities. Raised in Girard, Georgia, her analog collage practice and fiction are rooted in Southern Black traditions, magical realism, and a deep connection to land and ancestry. Her artwork has been featured in Southern Cultures, Garden & Gun Magazine, Oprah Magazine, and Black Collagists: The Book, and exhibited at institutions across the country including the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), the Jepson Center, the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, the Averitt Center for the Arts, and the Savannah Cultural Arts Center. In 2024, she created the cover art for The Unboxing of a Black Girl by Angela Shanté, a powerful work longlisted for a National Book Award. Her short story “The Grounding” was published in the Black History issue of Motif Magazine.

Price is also the creator and host of Dreaming in Color with Nancey B. Price, a storytelling podcast dedicated to uplifting the tradition of dreamtelling in the Black community and examining the influence of dreams on our waking lives. Now entering its fourth season, the podcast features intimate conversations, folklore, and reflections that bridge memory, imagination, and spirituality. It has cultivated a dedicated intergenerational audience, with a listenership that is primarily Black women and LGBTQ+ individuals across the country and larger diaspora. Beyond her creative work, Price leads community collage workshops for a wide range of participants—including art educators, university professors, and K-12 students—guiding them to explore identity, memory, and imagination through visual storytelling.

At 4pm on Thursday, October 9th in the Galanti Lounge of the URI Library, Price will give a public lecture on the intersections of Afrofuturism, pop culture, and Black Southern identity. Please use the form below to register for Price’s lecture on October 9th.
In preparation for Price’s visit to URI, join us on Friday, October 3rd at 4pm in the Hoffman Room of Swan Hall for a screening of the film, Sinners. Register for the screening here.
At 12pm on Friday October 10 in the Hardge Forum of the MSSC, Price will give a hands-on community collage workshop. Please click here to register for her October 10 collage workshop.