Transmissions, or these histories we lest not forget is organized on the occasion of the Benton Museum of Art’s recent acquisition of Cauleen Smith’s film Sojourner (2018) and works on paper Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route (2019) and In the Wake: On Blackness and Being (2019). These transmissions from the past combine the deeply personal and spiritual with collective liberation work. Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich’s film Spit on the Broom (2019) and Sophia Nahli Allison’s photographic work The Rapture or a Resurrection (2019) join Smith’s work in rendering history and potential futures that, if heeded, can prove instructive as we chart paths forward. Curated by Jheanelle Brown