During Family Weekend, our 2023 Heimark Artist in Residence Renée Elizabeth Neely-TANNER gave an artist talk entitled ‘I Quit Slavery.’ American Maroons and the Absolute Freedom of Abstract Art. This conversation explored the historical landscape of the Great Dismal Swamp Maroons and how their achievement to ‘hide in plain sight’ is best represented in the liberating terrain of abstract art. The talk took place in the gallery among Neely-TANNER’s exhibition entitled Speculative Ecologies The Intimate Bond of Freedom and Green.