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9:00am MDT

Dust Shaped Hearts - The Shape of Dust

Saturday August 2, 2025 9:00am - 10:15am MDT

In 1994 popular media was documenting the “Black American male” as a species that was headed for extinction. The words “O SON OF DUST!” became the foundation of the photographic project “Dust Shaped Hearts.” Photographer Donald Camp devised a photographic process that used dust (earth pigment) and light sensitized casein to make portraits of Black American men that would be much more archival than standard photographic materials. Working with the newspaper headshots in mind, Mr. Camp created a body of work that uses dust and milk to speaks of the unity of humanity.

Speakers

Donald Camp

Donald E. Camp is a professor emeritus at Ursinus College. Fellowships: John Simon Guggenheim Foundation The National Endowment for the Arts The Pew Foundation for the Arts. Collections: Philadelphia Museum of Art, Delaware Art Museum, Michener Art Museum Pennsylvania... Read More →

Saturday August 2, 2025 9:00am - 10:15am MDT
Glen 208 South building - 2nd level

Arts & Humanities, Breakout

2:00pm MDT

Consultation: A Spiritual Technology for Transformative Times: A Hands-on Interactive Journey

Saturday August 2, 2025 2:00pm - 3:15pm MDT

Glen 208

The spiritual technology, consultation, stands alongside ubuntu and other indigenous circle methods that mute competition, dominance and hierarchy while fostering just, collective decisionmaking. Welcomed by comrades in Baltimore’s Black community, at work and in the field of service, it's one of the last tools Baha’is tend to share outwardly. After briefly reviewing key elements aligned between Bahá'í Writings, indigenous practices, some practical adaptations from John Kolstoe’s “Developing Genius” and the facilitators' work, we’ll collectively create guidelines to share for introducing consultation in our circles of action using interactive and computer assisted social research tools.

Speakers

Eliza Cooper

Eliza centers Black community to uplift all of mankind. She is versed in African-centered communal practices, e.g. ubuntu, and certified in several facilitation techniques hosting regular workshops and events, like Black Love Day. A friend of the Faith, she learned about consultation... Read More →

Geri Peak

Geri brings a liberatory lens to social transformation through evaluation, applied research, facilitation and coaching, integrating spiritual principles and methods into her efforts. Balancing Bahá'í service, family life, artmaking, cat fancying, food production, work and promoting... Read More →

Saturday August 2, 2025 2:00pm - 3:15pm MDT
Glen 208 South building - 2nd level

Community, Breakout

49th ABS Annual Conference

9:00am MDT

Donald Camp

2:00pm MDT

Eliza Cooper

Geri Peak

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