08/31/2026
Join us for the 2026 Making & Thinking Conference at the Folk Art Center 10am-4:30pm on Sept. 5th and 6th. This event is free and open to the public.
On Saturday, Greenlee and caldwell will discuss their curatorial book project and exhibition, “belonging to place: The Creative Community & Artistic Legacy of bell hooks” on view at the Turchin Center for the Visual Arts at Appalachian State University, in Boone, N.C.
Greenlee, who holds a doctorate in African American literature from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is a freelance writer/editor and an independent literary scholar whose work centers on Black girlhood, geography, nature and freedom. Born in Greensboro, NC, with roots in rural South Carolina and Western North Carolina, she was a teacher-scholar in residence at the bell hooks center at Berea College, KY. and an inaugural Craft Archival Research Fellow for the Center for Craft.
Caldwell is an Appalachian artist, educator, curator, and scholar rooted in her hometown of Boone, NC. Through her practice, she explores collaborative opportunities for the expansion of Appalachianplacemaking liberatory feminist belonging, with publications in the Appalachian Journal, Inuit Quarterly, and the International Journal of Education Through Art. Caldwell received two bachelor’s degrees and a master’s degree in Appalachian studies and nonprofit administration from Appalachian State University in Boone, NC and has exhibited her work locally, nationally and internationally.
