Seed and Story:
An exploration of one family's history with cotton and their sharecropping past
In 2021 Yolande was selected to be part of the inaugural cohort of the Earthseed Black Family Archive Project by Je-Shawna Wholley, sponsored in part by The Auburn Seminary and the Northwestern University's Women's Center. After the cohort project ended, Yolande created an art exhibit to further engage her community.
"My research-based work investigates the intersection of history, memory and ancestral legacy."
Yolande created Seed and Story, an art installation at City Arts Gallery in Orlando, Florida (2022). She further expanded on this body of work as a James Weldon Johnson Foundation Artist-in-Residence later that year.
To see which works are available for purchase, visit the JWJ online gallery.
In 2026 Yolande was awarded the MDAH Family Genealogy Fellowship where she will continue building on this body of work through archival research and creative storytelling.
