October 12, 2022
Family Pictures USA’ artist Thomas Allen Harris, left, a Black man with glasses and a blue button-down shirt, displays family photographs belonging to North Carolina Poet Laureate Jaki Shelton Green, a Black woman with copper-colored curly hair. round glasses and a black dress, and her cousin, Sterling Michael Holt., a Black man with white hair and white mustache, glasses, waring a green sweater and holding a family photograph. Harris’ ‘Family Pictures USA’ project co-creates a living and growing family picture album of America by traveling across the country and inviting community members to share images and stories from their personal family archives. Photo courtesy of Thomas Allen Harris.