Exhibit Dates
Spaces and Places
Presented by Women Writing for (a) Change Jacksonville
Featuring Emily Mitchell and Teresa Cook
December 11, 2025 – May 30, 2026
Spaces and Places brings together the work of Emily Mitchell and Teresa Cook, the 2024–2025 Zora Neale Hurston Fellows of Women Writing for (a) Change Jacksonville. The exhibition explores how memory, history, and lived experience shape our understanding of place, both personal and collective.
Mitchell approaches the theme through the lens of an archivist and anthropologist, drawing from childhood homes and family spaces to examine how time transforms the ordinary into something deeply meaningful. Her paintings use lush, ephemeral color to capture nostalgia, impermanence, and the emotional weight carried by familiar environments.
Cook’s work is rooted in architectural abstraction and historical research, inspired by Zora Neale Hurston’s work in Jacksonville during the Federal Writers’ Project. Through watercolor and mixed media, she traces the city’s layered histories, honoring Hurston’s legacy while mapping her own connection to Jacksonville’s hidden stories.
Together, the artists invite viewers to reflect on the spaces that shape identity, memory, and belonging.