https://www.jonathancalm.com/work-avenue daily 1.0 2026-03-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/626607fe549e23767dcdf1b1/1650864026975-TBXHFX4C0MN38E5859AB/003.jpg Work - Double Vision (Safe Space III) (Size: 40" X 50") (2020) Archival Pigment Print Founded in 1866, Fisk University was constructed to include numerous safe places and secret passageways that allowed students and faculty to escape white mobs who would invade and terrorize their campus. As I follow such a flight route, located inside a church, the blurry visual effect suggests the speed at which one had to move to get away, but also conjures up a ghostly realm in which the figures of so many individuals who ascended this ladder to hide away from attack blend into one. These images convey an acute concern of safety from racist terror that remains relevant to the present day, as demonstrated by bomb threats at 57 of the 107 Historically Black Colleges at the start of February - Black History Month - 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/626607fe549e23767dcdf1b1/1652256206605-8P8QUY4AKLF1WZJX5YW3/JCalm+Image+016.jpg Work Someone painted this image of a woman on a boarded-up dwelling to imbue the abandoned neighborhood with humanity, life and beauty, though a chain link fence has been put in place to keep people at bay. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/626607fe549e23767dcdf1b1/1652251054121-UDEXVN274G7F2SLUI9CB/TFP+Detail+III+copy.jpg Work - Detail: Travel is Fatal to Prejudice I (Sandra Bland), 2017-2018, Silver Gelatin Print, 20" X 16" Sandra Annette Bland https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/626607fe549e23767dcdf1b1/1650853935997-I36C8QJFWR3D0UAQ11EA/004.jpg Work - Blue Black History (Edmund Pettus Bridge) (Size: 18" X 24") (2022) Cyanotype Print The Edmund Pettus Bridge, where peaceful protesters defied brutal police attacks in the 1965 march from Selma to Montgomery. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/626607fe549e23767dcdf1b1/1650868663396-HVIUWW285E9OVTMBS0NL/Screen+Shot+2021-09-01+at+7.27.41+PM.png Work This rendering shows a view from the back of the space with the entrance on the far end. People looking at the names on the walls and sitting by the reflective pool convey the dimensions of the whole. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/626607fe549e23767dcdf1b1/1650866184650-8MFR592IAEISUL6SPCXK/image-asset.jpeg Work - Green Book (Lorraine Motel), 2016. Archival Pigment Print, 20" X 20" Arguably the most famous Green Book site is the Lorraine Motel, where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated on April 4, 1968. The rooms he occupied at the Lorraine have been preserved the way they were over half a century ago, as if frozen in time. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/626607fe549e23767dcdf1b1/1773912729684-2EFO6C779W5TID8VYAK8/JCalm+15.jpg Work - Oscarville GA, 2026. Inkjet print on linen, overlaid with embroidery, 16 x 20 in. A majority Black community in Forsyth County whose residents were driven out during the racial violence of 1912, part of the expulsion of over 1,000 Black residents. The area was later submerged during the creation of Lake Lanier in 1950. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/626607fe549e23767dcdf1b1/1773913653017-5JIX65CZ86GE910ZJ00O/JCalm+18.jpg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/626607fe549e23767dcdf1b1/1773914210627-LNH8EPS66K1B25DZC45Z/JCalm+1.jpg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/626607fe549e23767dcdf1b1/1650867269767-7A0SHPSJXBYCCOSO4BXG/007.jpg Work - Double Vision (Locomotive I) (Size: 40" X 50") (2021) Archival Pigment Print I depict myself dressed in 1920s attire, and seated as a passenger in a Pullman train car from the period, which was the company’s heyday, before the automobile and the airplane became increasingly popular modes of transportation. Though Pullman Porters were often recruited from former slave states, expected to wait on white passengers with utmost subservience and treated accordingly, they also experienced geographical and social mobility in ways inaccessible to most other African Americans at the time. Traveling the country and being able to save money to create life opportunities for their children, they were a driving force in the Great Migration. My stare conveys the ambiguity of the Porter’s status in the racial order, exuding a sense of uneasy anticipation, while my solitude in the pristine space adds a surreal touch. (As trains crossed the Mason-Dixon Line into the South, the social hierarchy was reflected in seat assignment: as opposed to on buses, Black passengers typically sat in the front cars, which were the dirtiest, because they were located closest to the coal-powered engine.) https://www.jonathancalm.com/pagecv daily 0.75 2026-01-24 https://www.jonathancalm.com/about-avenue daily 0.75 2026-01-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/626607fe549e23767dcdf1b1/a804b993-5eb1-46ee-8156-078ca0659f8b/CLake.jpg About https://www.jonathancalm.com/new-page daily 0.75 2022-05-02 https://www.jonathancalm.com/new-page-3 daily 0.75 2022-05-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/626607fe549e23767dcdf1b1/8cb04406-a128-4dd5-8857-67b6e33b399e/Screen+Shot+2022-05-02+at+09.44.46.jpg In Media - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/626607fe549e23767dcdf1b1/ec2e803f-bac0-4e88-9912-8ba58dca63f8/cropped-logo-PAM-CUT-blog.png In Media - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/626607fe549e23767dcdf1b1/618d0718-a932-4773-880a-a3d2f665cf17/KIC+Document+0007.jpg In Media - Make it stand out Edited by Sandra S. 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