Humming bird and more art by Merideth Taylor

Artist’s Bio/Statement
Merideth Taylor Is professor emerita of theater and dance at St. Mary’s College of Maryland. Her work as a performer, writer, director, choreographer and, more recently, photographer has focused on social justice and the effort to bring about positive social change through the arts. She has received awards in playwriting, screenwriting, and directing, and has published photographs and essays.
She co-edited In Relentless Pursuit of an Education: African American Stories from a Century of Segregation1865-1967 with Unified Committee for Afro-American Contributions in 2006, and, in 2018, published Listening In: Echoes and Artifacts from Maryland’s Mother County, a book of stories and photographs. (George F. Thompson)
The photo and story “Hummingbird” is excerpted from her forthcoming book Making a Way out of No Way: Lives of Labor, Love, and Resistance, and reflects a moment of respite in the life of an enslaved child on a Southern MD tobacco plantation.