In November 2016, the MCRC Project was founded when Joan Ferrante, NKU professor of sociology, issued a call to students artists to apply for a spot on a creative team which would explore how people in the United States came to be divided into racial categories. The goal of project  was to create art --poetry, theater, visualizations, music and dance-- focusing on the moments when people were torn apart to live their lives in different racial categories. The art would explore partings carried out in the most sorrowful to callous ways, and every way in between.

FOUNDING ARTISTS

Joan Ferrante

Executive Producer, Writer and Arts Integration Director

CREATIVE ARTISTS

CHOREOGRAPHERS

Kiersten Edwards,  Were You There?/Walk Together Children, Epilogue

Marcellus Howie,  Swaddled by Category, Epilogue

Marquise Howie, Swaddled by Category, Epilogue

Sam Theders, I Love You with All My Weight, Epilogue

Domonique Trader, Biological Ties

FEATURED DANCERS

Darnell Pierre Benjamin, as Robert Garner (Let Our Loss Be Heard: The Dance)

Maiya Caldwell, as Thomas Garner (Let Our Loss Be Heard: The Dance)

Hannah Duvall, as Mary Garner

Diamond Evans, as Margaret's Shadow

Ian Timothy Forsgren, as Archibald Gaines (Let Our Loss Be Heard: The Dance)

Marcellus Howie, as Robert Garner

Marquise Howie, as Samuel Garner

Collin Newton, as Archibald Gaines

Lavette Patterson, as Margaret Garner

Aiden Sim, as Samuel Garner (Let Our Loss Be Heard: The Dance)

ENSEMBLE DANCERS

Let Our Loss Be Heard: The Documentary

Emily Adams DJ Bruegge Alexa Callaham Kelsey Donahue Isabella Keller Ashley Martin Anaya McNair Brianna Mullins Jensen O'Dell Janie Smith Kayla Woods

Let Our Loss Be Heard: The Dance

Maiya Caldwell               Alexa Callaham                  Diamond Ny’Chelle Evans Lynnissa Hillman                     Angela O'Neill                Tyler Rosenblatt                 Janie Smith                                 Sam Theders 

COMPOSERS & MUSICIANS

Ariyana Hardy: Vocalist “Walk Together Children”

Delphy Miyake: Trumpeter

Gita Srinivasan, The Garner Family Story, Opening Cellist

Jason Vest: Vocalist “Were You There?”

Reid Wassmer: Composer

Parrish Wright: Collaborating Composer (Scene 1 and Epilogue)

POETS

Betsy Ball: "Afterbirth" and "First Born"

India Sada Hackle: "I Love You With All My Weight,” "The Ohio River"

Kirsten Hurst: "That Time I Talked to Race"

Madison Pullins: "The Note" or "There is No Father"

Mark Youssef: "Escape List" and “Birth Observer”

ACTORS

Caleb Farley, Performed as Archy in Part 1 Categories Black and White Documentary

Landon Horton, Performed as Thomas in Part 1 Categories Black and White Documentary

Kearston Hawkins-Johnson, Performed "There is No Father" and "I Love You With All My Weight'

Aki Hosoda: Performed, "That Time I Talked to Race"

James Hummeldorf, Performed "The Ohio River"

Kaleb King, Performed "Escape List" and “Birth Observer”

Gabriella Rivera, Performed "First Born" and "Afterbirth"

 VISUAL ARTIST

Emily 'Cat' Eaton: Ceramic Artist, Sculpture

Tabitha Kelly, Visual Art for Garner Story

VIDEO & AUDIO PRODUCERS

Bryan Lierer, Editor & Production Audio

Michael DeGrazier, Videographer

Chris Joecken, Additional Camera

Tim Dutton, Post Sound Mixer