The Daily Progress: UVa professor's National Mall sound installation honors Black voices lost to AIDS

The Daily Progress / by Jane Sathe / Published August 10, 2023

“Beyond Granite: Pulling Together,” curated by Paul Farber and Salamishah Tillet for Monument Lab, is the first curated outdoor exhibition of its kind in the National Mall’s history. It includes six installations; Crawley’s will be on the Washington Monument’s South Lawn.

“It still feels surreal to me,” Crawley, an audio and visual artist who also is professor of religious studies and African American and African studies at the University of Virginia, said of the invitation. “I teach at UVa and write and teach about Blackness and queerness and Black religion. I was not expecting the call.”