Thomas More University will be hosting The HomePlace by photographer Sarah Hoskins as part of the of the 2022 FotoFocus Biennial.
Nonprofit arts organization FotoFocus will showcase the exhibit from Oct. 13 to Nov. 2 at the Eva G. Farris Art Gallery on Thomas More’s Crestview Hills campus. This is FotoFocus’s sixth biennial, encompassing more than 100 projects in a month-long celebration of photography and lens-based art.
The event will feature more than 600 artists, curators and participants.
“Now, even into our sixth Bienniel with FotoFocus, it always amazes me the quality of exhibitions that we can bring to our campus thanks to the support we receive from FotoFocus,” says Elizabeth Neal, associate professor and director of Thomas More’s Eva G. Farris Art Gallery.
Sarah Hoskins’s HomePlace is an ongoing series of gelatin silver prints documenting home places that originated from African American settlements that sprang up around horse farms in Kentucky’s Inner Bluegrass Region. These villages, or hamlets, were originally inhabited by freed slaves who worked on area farms. Today, many of the residents are descendants of the free men and women who founded them.
“The Homeplace is comfort,” Hoskins said. “The place you can go back to no matter how many years have passed. It will always hold something familiar, something safe and will always welcome you back no matter how long or why you have been away.”
For more information on FotoFocus, visit fotofocus.org.
For more information on this exhibit, visit https://www.photographypreservation.org/sarah-hoskins.