MOCA Presents : Enjoy a tour of Jacksonville’s historic Eastside neighborhood and conversation with Suzanne Pickett and artist Doug Eng, in connection to the MOCA Jacksonville exhibition Contemporary Cartographies. Learn firsthand about the present of one of Jacksonville's oldest and last historic African American neighborhoods that was once home to Eartha Mary White, A. Phillip Randolph, Bob Hayes, and Zora Neale Hurston, and its historic neglect and disproportionate economic hardship as a previously redlined area.

Susan Pickett is an artist, activist, and community developer in Jacksonville. She received a Bachelor of Fine Art and Communications from the University of North Florida, and continued her studies in housing counseling, management, financial capabilities, and community real estate development at the University of South Florida. She established the Historic Eastside CDC in 2013, which serves as a resource and liaison to preserve and transform the neighborhood through equitable community development by improving access to affordable housing, social services, cultural development, wealth building, education, and safety.

A Jacksonville, FL native and resident, Doug Eng is a photographer and installation artist whose visual interests are urban and natural landscapes. Eng’s recent projects focus on raising awareness of social and environmental issues - redlining, urban renewal, deforestation, and the effects of climate change on the health of our forests. An engineer and software programmer by education and trade, Eng is pursuing a lifelong interest in the visual arts and has established a reputation for unique imagery and meaningful public projects. He held a retrospective of his work at MOCA in 2021.

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