ArtRage hosted one of the first pubic screenings of late filmmaker Thea St.Omer’s documentary Nigger in the fall of 2009, so we are pleased to show this film again as part of the programming for the William Berry exhibition, BLACKOUT. Nigger explores the power of this much-maligned word through a series of interviews that explore its history, meanings and impact. We will show the 2011 revised final cut, introduced by Nancy Keefe Rhodes.

Thea St.Omer died suddenly in her Armory Square loft last April. The 2016 issue of Stone Canoe Journal presents a special commemoration of her work in their online Moving Images section that includes essays by and interviews with fellow artists, filmmakers and friends, and some work by Thea herself.

Free to the Public