Created in collaboration by Lindsay Gary, Felicia Thomas, Cecile Lofton and Stacey Allen, this installation will be centered around surviving maternity through ancestral practices and ancestral healing, community, and self-care. “Formed in My Grandmother’s Womb” will examine and highlight the resurgence of ancestral practices for healing and self-care amongst black women and the use of these practices to combat maternal mortality, difficult pregnancies, as well as their use to aid pregnant women in enabling the survival of future generations. The knowledge that babies are first formed in their grandmother’s womb informs and leads this exploration as well as the aspect of “reaching back to reach inward”. This installation will be featured at Houston's historic Project Row Houses as a part of Round 50 from Oct. 12, 2019 to February 16th, 2020.