Opening Reception: All Roads Lead Back to G-Town Radio: A Window Installation

Eleven years after launching #RacismIsASickness at G-Town Radio, photographer, writer, and community-engaged artist Tieshka K. Smith returns to the place where the project began with #10YearsofRacismIsASickness, a four-month artist residency that revisits the original project through the lens of time, place, memory, and community.

Anchoring the residency is a window installation titled All Roads Lead Back to G-Town Radio. A three-paneled map traces the journeys the original participants made from their home neighborhoods to G-Town Radio to co-create the project, while highlighting sites of Black presence and resistance within those communities.

Visitors will encounter the geographic origins of the work through the lives and neighborhoods of the people who made it possible.

Throughout the residency, the space will be activated through opportunities for both personal reflection and community dialogue. Visitors will be invited to contribute written responses, create commemorative buttons inspired by their experience of the work, participate in Chat & Chew conversations, and engage with the project during Philadelphia Open Studio Tours. The residency will culminate in a live convening that reunites voices connected to the project’s earlier history while inviting the broader community into one final conversation about the ongoing work of racial healing.