Africatown Heritage House is hosting its August 2025 Heritage Lecture Series event, a collection of speeches designed to touch on topics related to the Black experience, on Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 5:30pm.
The August lecture, in partnership with the Mobile Museum of Art, will feature Dr. Tiffany Barber, a prize-winning, internationally recognized scholar, curator, and critic whose writing and expert commentary appears in top-tier academic journals, popular media outlets, and award-winning documentaries. Her work spans abstraction, dance, fashion, feminism, film, and the ethics of representation, focusing on visual and performing artists of the Black world. Her latest curatorial project, a virtual, multimedia exhibition for Google Arts and Culture, examines the value of Afrofuturism in times of crisis. In her lecture, Without Stopping: The Symbolism and Motifs of Juan Logan’s Africatown Paintings, Dr. Barber will discuss the many symbolisms and motifs that appear in Juan Logan's recently commissioned abstract paintings Without Stopping and Threads, both of which pay homage to Africatown.
Dr. Tiffany Barber is currently Assistant Professor of African American Art at the University of California-Los Angeles. Prior to joining the faculty at UCLA, she was Assistant Professor of Africana Studies and Art History at the University of Delaware as well as curator-in-residence at the Delaware Contemporary. She has completed fellowships at ArtTable, the Delaware Art Museum, the University of Virginia’s Carter G. Woodson Institute for African-American and African Studies, and the Getty Research Institute. Dr. Barber is the recipient of the Smithsonian’s 2022 National Portrait Gallery Director’s Essay Prize and author of Undesirability and Her Sisters: Black Women’s Visual Work and the Ethics of Representation (New York University Press, 2025).
The History Museum of Mobile, Mobile Museum of Art, and Africatown Heritage House invite the public to attend this FREE Heritage Lecture Series event.
Capacity is limited and guests are required to RSVP to attend by calling (251) 206-5268.
For more information on the Heritage Lecture Series, contact Jessica Fairley, Africatown Heritage House Manager, by email at
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