The October 1 Coffee @ Ten talk in Traverse City is with Patrick Earl Hammie, featured artists of Foreword: A Solo Exhibition by Patrick Earl Hammie. Patrick Earl Hammie is an American visual artist who examines personal and shared black diasporic experiences and offers stories that expand how we express notions of gender and race today. Through portraits and allegories, Hammie explores the complexities of identity, emotion, and family by layering existing histories with new narratives, navigating the tensions between feeling and knowledge, power and violence, vulnerability and tenderness. He works primarily with themes related to cultural identity, social justice, storytelling, and the body in visual culture.