First Annual Margaret Gray Thomas Lecture

Telfair Museums and Telfair's Friends of the Owens-Thomas House present the first annual Margaret Gray Thomas Lecture by Dr. Tiffany Momon in conjunction with Roots in the Rushes: African American Basketry of the Lowcountry. Dr. Momon will lecture on the artistry and labor of enslaved and free Black craftspeople, with an emphasis on basketmaking in the Lowcountry. A scholar of African American histories and material culture, Momon is currently the Associate Professor of History at Sewanee: The University of the South. Her efforts to recover and preserve documentation of the lives and contributions of Black artisans and craftspeople in American history form the foundation of the groundbreaking and award-winning digital humanities project, the Black Craftspeople Digital Archive.