Filmmaker and Installation Artist Roberto Mighty, MFA, is America’s first cemetery Artist-in-Residence, and the inaugural resident artist at Mount Auburn Cemetery, a National Historic Landmark and America’s first garden cemetery.
His 'earth.sky' installation features films and multimedia in an immersive, computer controlled, multi projector traveling exhibit now available for museums worldwide.
earth.sky
“The Slave’s New Year’s Day”
Interred
Harriett Ann Jacobs
February 11, 1813 - March 7, 1897
Notes
Harriet Ann Jacobs (February 11, 1813 – March 7, 1897) was an African-American writer who escaped from slavery and became an abolitionist speaker and reformer. Jacobs' single work, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, published in 1861 under the pseudonym Linda Brent, was one of the first autobiographical narratives about the struggle for freedom by female slaves and an account of the sexual harassment and abuse they endured. It is based on events of her own life.
Voices
Sheila Nutt
Roberto Mighty
Music
Bathed In The Light
by Kevin MacLeod
Performed by Kevin MacLeod
Funding for this project
A. J. & M. D. Ruggiero Memorial Trust
Friends of Mount Auburn Cemetery
Cambridge Arts Council
Preservation Fund for Eastern Massachusetts of
The National Trust for Historic Preservation
Mass Humanities
Watertown Cultural Council
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The Slave’s New Year’s Day
Interred: Harriett Ann Jacobs
Notes
Harriet Ann Jacobs (February 11, 1813 – March 7, 1897) was an African-American writer who escaped from slavery and became an abolitionist speaker and reformer. Jacobs' single work, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, published in 1861 under the pseudonym Linda Brent, was one of the first autobiographical narratives about the struggle for freedom by female slaves and an account of the sexual harassment and abuse they endured. It is based on events of her own life.
Voices: Sheila Nutt, Roberto Mighty
Behind the scenes: Voice Actor Sheila Nutt as Harriet Jacobs
03/22/14