Robert Farris Thompson Maroon Institute

The Robert Farris Thompson Maroon Institute for Afro-Diasporic Arts is designed to function as a virtual maroon society promoting advanced multidisciplinary scholarship and artistic practice through exchange, collaboration and preservation.  RFTMI brings together a collective of cross-disciplinary scholars and artists whose work focuses on Afro-Diasporic arts and culture from a holistic perspective.  As an online destination, RFTMI supports research, study, publishing, and practice of Afro-Diasporic arts via lectures, workshops, performances, exhibitions, screenings and archive.  The Maroon Institute hosts monthly online salons consisting of select scholars and artists, and their dialogue.  All RFTMI activities will be recorded and made available to the public via the YouTube channel.

—Petra Richterová,  C. Daniel Dawson and Warrington Hudlin

DIRECTOR & FOUNDER: Petra Richterová, PhD 

C0-DIRECTOR: C. Daniel Dawson 

Cover photo by Petra Richterová, 2006. Logo by Saki Mafundikwa.