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EXHIBITING ARTISTS

Ceremonial Teas in the Context of the African

American Social Life

Taurean Webb (he/him) is a Religion & Public

Life, Harvard Divinity School, Conflict and

Peace Fellow of 2020-2021. Taurean serves

as the Director of the Center for the Church

and the Black Experience and instructor of

Religion and Race at Garrett-Evangelical

Theological Seminary. Taurean’s work further

brings U.S. African American Christian

communities into the movement for a just

peace in Israel-Palestine through relationship-

building, cross-cultural immersive learning,

theological reflection, youth engagement, and

collective action. Taurean’s fellowship year will

be spent producing an integrative art exhibition

that centers the work of Black and Palestinian

artists and preparing to travel it across the

East Coast and Midwest.
Portrait of Taurean Webb

Designer in the early 1990s after college and

years later as a freelance make-up artist and

fashion stylist. In 2000 she became the host,

promoter, and nightlife social curator for Deep

House Page, Chicago’s premier source for music

entertainment and dance culture. Now her focus

is on photography and curation. She is inspired

by nature, people, social interaction, music, and

dance culture. She enjoys the surreal and

spiritual realm, and some of her work

encompasses those forms. Larissa’s process

includes photography of human form, a play on

light and body movement, including spoken word,

animation, video, and performance art. In her

Portrait of Larissa J Akinremi spare time and upon request, she is also a DJ.

Johnson’s first solo exhibition, People, Places,

Larissa J Akinremi (she/her) is the and Things, took place in 2015 at Tangible

daughter of creative visionaries activist
Things. Her work was most recently featured at
Bobbie Johnson and Zaid A. Beats and Treats, a solo exhibition at Chicago’s

Maalikulmulk. 80s club kid and social Bronzeville Room 43, which featured local artists.

curator Larissa Johnson-Akinremi (b.

Baltimore, MD, 1969) began her career
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