Elizabeth M. Webb begins her artist-in-residence at the Wallace House

Elizabeth Webb began her artist residency by screening her film and speaking at the Birmingham Museum of Art on May 21. She then visited the Datcher History House and engaged with a number of Wallace descendants as she begins to shape the work she will present in 2023 at the Wallace House.

Webb’s work uses the lens of her family’s history of migration and “racial passing,” as well as the landscape of eastern Alabama, to explore the complexities of the “color line” and other embedded social constructs. She came to our 2018 homecoming, and we welcome her back for more sustained interaction.