Robin North

College Place, WA / Houston, TX
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Robin North is a research-based visual artist and educator whose practice centers on photography, archives, and cultural memory in the rural deep South of Texas. He works with family collections, Freedom Colonies, and digital platforms to document land, labor, and preservation as acts of belonging and mutual support.

Project: The Garcitas Community: Deep Roots, Buried Histories
This project documents my family’s ongoing effort to preserve the Garcitas Freedmen’s Community in rural South Texas, founded by my formerly enslaved ancestors. Garcitas Cemetery, Mt. Pisgah Missionary Baptist Church, and the Hudler School for Coloreds remain central to our lives, showing how cultural memory endures despite the absence of institutional support. Through photography, archives, and digital media, I share the labor of care that sustains these places across generations. Expanding into a photobook and StoryMaps, this work educates the public on how families maintain cultural infrastructure outside formal systems while offering a model for preserving at-risk burial grounds.