Emma Vecchione (Brown BA 2020, Art History)

produced this audio piece.

The Trading Earth Soundwalk team consisted of:

Alexandra Poterack

associate educator, Public and Academic Programs

Jeremy Radtke

assistant director, Digital Initiatives

Olivia Schroder (RISD BFA 2023)

sound designer and producer

Kajette Solomon

Social Equity and Inclusion (SEI) Program Specialist

Elizabeth Williams

David & Peggy Rockefeller Curator, Decorative Arts at the RISD Museum

Elizabeth Xu (RISD MFA, 2023)

sound designer

Thank you to those who contributed to the creation of the Trading Earth Soundwalk:

Janette Bloomfield

mother of Kajette Solomon

Anina Major, (RISD MFA 2017, Ceramics)

ceramic artist and critic, RISD Ceramic Department

Chris Roberts

RISD Schiller Family Assistant Professorship in Race in Art and Design, Assistant Professor of Theory and History of Art and Design and Experimental Foundation Studies

John Onwuchekwa

founder of Portrait Coffee in Atlanta, Georgia Pascale Rihouet, RISD Senior Lecturer in History of Art & Visual Culture

Additional thanks to those whose conversations and reflections shaped the development of this project:

Sheila Bonde, Christopher Chan and Michelle Ma

Professor of History of Art, Brown University

Marina Brancely

Senior Instructor, Johnson and Wales University

Zack Even (Brown BA 2020, Modern Culture and Media)

Kaijun Chen

Assistant Professor of East Asian Studies

Karen Methany

Senior Lecture, Gastronomy, Boston University

Holly Shaffer

Assistant Professor of History of Art and Director of Undergraduate Studies, Brown University