Speakers
- Courtney Reid-Eaton
- Center for Documentary Studies, Duke University
Courtney Reid-Eaton is a culture worker, creative engine, spouse, mother, and Black Feminist. She has been the exhibitions director at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University since 2001, overseeing the selection, scheduling, curation, design, and installation of exhibits in all of the Center’s galleries and organizing related public programs; she also serves as the creative director of CDS’s pilot Documentary Diversity Project. Some of her favorite and most notable projects include The Collector: Joseph Mitchell’s Quotidian Quest, photographs of objects from the esteemed writer’s urban archeological collection; FaceUp, Telling Stories of Community Life, a collaborative public art project with Brett Cook (in partnership with Barbara Lau and Mayme Webb-Bledsoe); The Jazz Loft Project: W. Eugene Smith in NYC 1957–1965, co-curated with Smith biographer Sam Stephenson; The Self-Care Exhibit: A Word & Image Act of Self-Preservation & Political Warfare, with The Beautiful Project, a collective of image makers that uses photography, writing and reflective workshops to create spaces for Black women and girls to confront the mass misunderstanding, misrepresentation and misuse of their likeness in the media and in the world at large. In 2013, after attending her first anti-oppression workshop, she committed to pursuing an activist curatorial practice that primarily centers the work of people of color and women.