Jamaicanisms: Jhanique Lovejoy & Kat Thompson in Conversation

On June 30th at 6pm, join us for Jamaicanisms: Jhanique Lovejoy & Kat Thompson in Conversation, a talk centered on family archives as living repositories of Black history, inviting the community into a dialogue about memory, storytelling, and archival ethics, situating domestic archives.

Hosted by Dyckman Farmhouse Museum, the conversation features Jhanique Lovejoy and Kat Thompson discussing Lovejoy’s exhibition Soon Come, Likkle More and their respective artistic practices as Jamaican-American artists. Through photography and textiles, Lovejoy and Thompson examine Black memory, family histories, and the material traces of the Jamaican diaspora.

Date: Tuesday, June 30, 2026

Time: 6pm-8pm

Cost: Free 

Location: Dyckman Farmhouse Museum 

Jhanique Lovejoy (b. 2001) is a New York imagemaker whose practice engages with multiplicity through the lens of race and culture. Lovejoy is known for her deeply intimate portrayals of her relationships as a queer Jamaican-American artist, encompassing both familial and romantic connections. Utilizing alternative processes, collage, and insights from her musicological studies, she explores themes of family archives, love, and the preservation of Black family history. By delving into the complexities of recollection, Lovejoy’s work serves as a testament to the multifaceted nature of Black Caribbean womanhood. She received her Bachelor’s in Photography and Ethnomusicology from Swarthmore College in 2023. She has shown her work at the Kolaj Institute, Soho Photo Gallery, List Gallery, Kitao Gallery, Sotheby’s, International Center of Photography, Smack Mellon, and The Cooper Union, and commissioned work for The Baldwin United Fund. Publications carrying Lovejoy’s images include Voices Magazine and ISO Magazine @ NYU.

Kat Thompson (b. 1991) is a lens-based artist and educator based in Virginia. Her interdisciplinary practice spans photography, video, textiles, sculptural collage, and installation. Through layering and material juxtaposition, she examines how images and objects function as vessels for memory, history, and identity, with a particular focus on the African Diaspora. Her work considers the construction of Black selfhood, exploring how cultural memory, ancestral inheritance, and lived experience converge across personal and collective narratives. Her work has been exhibited throughout the Mid-Atlantic and southern United States, including Page Bond Gallery (Richmond, VA), Visible Records (Charlottesville, VA), Tephra Institute of Contemporary Art (Reston, VA), and Green Space Miami. She is a 2023–2025 Hamiltonian Artists Fellow. Thompson holds an MFA in Photography & Film from Virginia Commonwealth University and a BFA in Photography from George Mason University.

Jamaicanisms: Jhanique Lovejoy & Kat Thompson in Conversation is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.