Karen Abbott describes the diorama depicting a church choir, likely worshipping in the Brentwood AME Zion Church. The minister stands at the pulpit while the choir and piano player— Norma’s friend and Karen’s godmother—lead the congregation in song. According to Karen, this diorama was one of her mother’s favorites.
Karen Abbott describes this classroom scene as inspired by her mother’s attendance at Thaddeus Stevens Elementary School in Georgetown. Her teacher, Mrs. Day is featured here, as is one male classmate who she remembered as frequently disruptive: he is captured turning around in his seat.
Karen Abbott narrates this diorama scene set in a clothing store during Christmastime. She calls attention to the cashier, the husband waiting while his wife shops, and details like the hat rack, purse, and gloves on the counter.
Dan Kerr interviews Cody Reuschel at the David Bethuel Jamieson Studio House at Walbridge on Visual AIDS Day With(Out) Art on December 1, 2023. Reuschel speaks about the One Campaign, the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, and PEPFAR.
Dan Kerr interviews Courtney Farrar at the David Bethuel Jamieson Studio House at Walbridge on Visual AIDS Day With(Out) Art on December 1, 2023. Farrar speaks about the Kilbourne Place memorial stones, and about headstones and memory.
Karen Abbott describes how her mother captured her grandmother’s kitchen in her house in Georgetown at 27 and N St. Karen believes the two children may be her mother and her brother, making the woman standing by the stove her grandmother, and the man in the chair her grandfather. Karen shares her own memories of this kitchen, where she was bathed in the old washtub. “Georgetown was home,” Karen states, and her mother was devastated when her grandmother sold the house in the 1950s, one sale of many prompted by and part of the neighborhood’s gentrification.
Dan Kerr interviews Isaac at the at the David Bethuel Jamieson Studio House at Walbridge on Visual AIDS Day With(Out) Art on December 1, 2023. Isaac speaks about the Kilbourne Place memorial stones, Washington Blade, AIDS activisim, the HIV epidemic, DC, the CDC, and Whitman Walker.