Artist Talk// "Le'Andra LeSeur: After Stone, After Ruins (Notation 2)"

Join ACP for the artist talk for Le’Andra LeSeur: After Stone, After Ruins (Notation 2), a conversation between LeSeur, writer and curator TK Smith and writer and anthropologist Trelani Michelle.

After Stone, After Ruins (Notation 2) is the second iteration of a narrative in which LeSeur explores the body’s response to landscapes shaped by historical violence. Through pilgrimages across coastal Georgia, LeSeur engages wayfinding as an embodied practice oriented through listening, attunement, and the discovery of subtle resonances embedded in the land. 

In the Reading Room, ACP’s Spring 2026 Bookshelf Resident, Beta Local, presents an installation titled La recia voluntad de permanecer en el lugar. Based in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Beta Local is a nonprofit, artist-led initiative focused on making time and space to expand artistic practices and knowledge exchanges in Puerto Rico and the Caribbean.

Le'Andra LeSeur: After Stone, After Ruins (Notation 2) and La recia voluntad de permanecer en el lugar x Beta Local are on view through Saturday, April 18th. 

The artist talk is free and open to the public. 

About TK Smith//

TK Smith is an award-winning independent curator, writer, and cultural historian. He most recently served as Curator, Arts of Africa and the African Diaspora, Michael C. Carlos Museum at Emory University. Previously, Smith served as Assistant Curator: Art of the African Diaspora at the Barnes Foundation. Smith’s writing has been published in exhibition catalogues, academic journals, and periodicals, including Art Papers where he is a contributing editor. He is a past recipient of an Andy Warhol Arts Writers Grant and was awarded the Leo and Dorothea Rabkin Prize in art writing in 2024. He has been a visiting lecturer at numerous academic and cultural institutions, including Cornell University. Smith is a doctoral candidate in the History of American Civilization program at the University of Delaware, where he is completing his dissertation entitled, “Granite, Power, and Piss: The Transformation of a Confederate Symbol.

About Trelani Michelle//

Trelani Michelle connects the dots between people, place, and time. She refers to her anthropology work as “Zora Neale Hurstoning,” because it ain’t just a profession but a way of seeing the world. Her approach to storytelling began in childhood, traveling between Louisiana and the Low Country, where she began noticing patterns and asking deeper “why” questions.

Trelani helps folk reconsider stories they thought they already knew by highlighting lesser-known details as road maps reminding us that resistance has always made room for joy and awe. This perspective informs her guiding philosophy—and the title of her TEDx Talk—We All Cousins, which explores how the ways we talk, worship, eat, and heal reveal shared patterns of survival, creativity, and care.

Trelani is the author of Women Who Ain’t Afraid to Curse When Communicating with God, Krak Teet, and co-author of the New York Times bestseller Gullah Geechee Home Cooking. Learn more at TrelaniMichelle.com