Screening of “In Search of Phillis Wheatley Peters” and Q&A with filmmaker Leslie Askew
Friday, October 23 at 4 PM
Special Collections Libraries auditorium
300 S. Hull Street

UGA hosts a screening and discussion of “In Search of Phillis Wheatley Peters,” a new, 35-minute documentary about America’s first published Black poet. Produced by Askew Pictures, the film illuminates a largely overlooked chapter of Wheatley Peters’ story: her marriage to John Peters and the radical choices she made in pursuit of autonomy, dignity, and love.

Writer and director Leslie Askew will attend the screening and participate in a discussion. Askew is an award-recognized television producer and documentary director with over twenty years of experience working across the United States, United Kingdom, Europe, and Australia. She is the founder of Askew Pictures, an independent documentary studio focused on history, culture, and social-impact storytelling. Her recent projects include Pignorant, currently streaming on Amazon Prime, and Harvesting Justice, a documentary series examining food justice and grassroots activism, set to air on PBS in 2026. Her work has been commissioned by major broadcasters, including CNN, ITV (UK), SBS (Australia), Al Jazeera, CBS, BET, and PBS.

For more about Askew Pictures, visit:
https://www.askewpictures.com

Co-sponsored by the department of history, the department of English Ballew Lecture Fund, the Georgia Colloquium in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Literature, the Institute for Women’s and Gender Studies, the Institute for African American Studies, the UGA Arts Collaborative, the UGA Special Collections Libraries, the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts, the Athens Branch of the ASALH (Association for the Study of African American Life and History), and the African American Genealogy Shared Interest Group of the Clarke Oconee Counties Genealogy Society.

Arts Collaborative Conversation: Harrison Apple
Thursday, October 29 at 10 AM
Lamar Dodd building room S360

Harrison Apple will virtually join the Arts Collaborative for an informal conversation about creative research. Dr. Apple (they/them/theirs) is an interdisciplinary artist and historian based in Pittsburgh and the Director of the Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry. They are the co-founder of the Pittsburgh Queer History Project, an oral history and media preservation initiative focused on after-hours nightclubs and working-class LGBTQ lives in Pittsburgh. They received their PhD from the University of Arizona Department of Gender & Women’s Studies and the School of Information. Their intellectual work draws on transfeminist theory, creative exploitation of liquor code, media studies, and archival science.

The Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry at Carnegie Mellon University is a laboratory for atypical, transdisciplinary, and inter-institutional research at the intersections of arts, science, technology and culture. The STUDIO is one of the oldest active centers for interdisciplinary arts research in the United States. The STUDIO is operated by a team of research and business support specialists who help shape proposals, seek out novel technology, and workshop ideas ranging from nascent experiments to public spectacles.

https://studioforcreativeinquiry.org

Hosted by the Arts Collaborative student organization.