We were approached to work with artist Charmaine Minniefield on her powerful ongoing project which places multimedia, site specific public art installations within communities in order to uphold the African American histories and narratives of the area in an effort to address issues of erasure and systemic inequities. Each Praise House is a small wooden structure with a fully immersive digital projection installation of a Ring Shout, created from archives and/or footage collected from the community in which it resides. We were tasked with recreating a Praise House for the exhibition and performance. Praise Houses were small, simple structures often located on plantations that were used by enslaved people for gathering and worship.

The first iteration, entitled Remembrance as Resistance, was installed in Oakland Cemetery in 2021 on the site where 800+ graves of undocumented slave laborers had recently been discovered. The second iteration was commissioned by Emory University and installed on their campus in 2023.