EIU Tarble Arts Center

2024 Camille Compo Lecture: glyneisha 

Thursday, November 14, 2024 

5-7pm 

Free and open to the public; refreshments served 

In partnership with EIU’s Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies program, the Tarble welcomes exhibiting artist glyneisha as the 2024 Camille Compo Lecture Series guest speaker. 

Glyneisha is a poly-disciplinary artist, educator, and community caretaker archiving the inherent healing nature of matrilineal Blackness through processes of ethical collaboration informed by Black feminist scholarship. She organizes workshops, spaces for communal reflection, produces publications, living archives, installation and exhibition work examining the public and private experiential nature of the Black Interior as a source of refuge, healing, and imagination. Glyneisha is co-founder of Strange Fruit Femmes, a Black-and-Brown-femme-led collective that provides free programming for youth and adults centering transformative healing through the arts.  

Camille Compo began her career at EIU in the Office of Budget and Planning, retiring in 2001 as an Administrative Assistant to the Vice President of External Relations. The Camille Compo Lecture Series has been made possible by the estate of Camille Compo to honor her passion for learning, the arts, and her longtime commitment to the EIU Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies program.