Thomas Allen Harris is an interdisciplinary artist, filmmaker and scholar whose work explores family, identity, and spirituality. Drawing on the rich canon of African American and African Diaspora literature and arts, he draws audiences into dialogues that transcend the barriers which separate people from each other. Harris’ work re-interprets concepts around identity, autobiography, and representation using a model of co-creative socially engaged practice.

For over 30 years Harris has been creating deeply personal films that re-interpret the idea of documentary, autobiography and personal archive, including: Twelve Disciples of Nelson Mandela (2005), É Minha Cara/That’s My Face (2001), VINTAGE - Families of Value (1995), and the NAACP Image Award Winning, Through A Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People (2014). Harris’ new projects include My Mom, The Scientist, a documentary film exploring his mother’s career as a chemistry professor and the unique challenges facing African Americans pursuing careers in STEM, and its corresponding national outreach project, Scientists in the Family, funded by the National Science Foundation, the Sloan Foundation, and the Heising-Simons Foundation.

Margarida Correia is a Portuguese artist focused on photography and storytelling. Correia uses her work to delve into the historical and personal significance of locations embraced by Portuguese communities. She lives and works in Lisbon. She received an MFA in Photography from the School of Visual Arts in New York.

Correia had solo shows at the Urban Institute for Contemporary Art in Grand Rapids, the AIR Gallery in New York, at Real Art Ways in Hartford, the Texas Woman’s University in Denton (USA), the EDP Foundation, the Museum of São Roque, Gallery Monumental, Gallery 111, in Lisbon and the Museum D. Diogo Sousa in Braga.

She has also exhibited at White Columns, the Dorsky Gallery, the Bronx Museum for the Arts, Exit Art, ABC No Rio, Center for Photography at Woodstock, Bruce Silverstein Gallery in New York; the Griffin Museum of Photography in Winchester, The Print Center in Philadelphia, the Photographic Center Northwest in Seattle, the Toledo Museum of Art, the Vermont Center for Photography (USA), Gallery 44 in Canada, Cokkie Snoei Gallery in Holland. In Portugal she exhibited at Galeria Municipal do Porto, Fundação EDP, Espaço Novo Banco, Centro Cultural de Belem and Gallery ZDB, among others.

Correia was a recipient of grants and awards from the Puffin Foundation in New Jersey, the AIR Gallery in New York, the Joyce Elaine Photography Grant in Texas and fellowships from the Aaron Siskind Foundation in New York (US) and the Camões Institute, DGArtes, the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, the Luso American Foundation and the Portuguese Center for Photography (Portugal).