George Henry is a recent graduate of Amherst College who double majored in Black Studies and Computer Science. As a Queer, Jamaican and Mexican scholar, they are deeply passionate about uplifting and understanding the nuances of Blackness across the diaspora while working to ensure that new technologies like AI are equitable rather than exploitative.
George completed rigorous study at the intersection of ethics, technology, and Blackness at Amherst, with a particular focus on African and Caribbean theory and literature, Black feminist theory, Queer of color critique, and archival reclamation.
Deeply passionate about music production, sound, and aural archives, they studied music production at the Royal Danish Academy of Music during a semester abroad in Copenhagen and created an audio-visual senior capstone project titled “Rest,” which explored rest as a tool to resist capitalism and recover the Black women and other marginalized subjects erased by traditional archives and scholarship.
Supported by the Wells International Foundation as an intern this summer, George will create a series of soundscapes mapping Beauford Delaney’s movement throughout New York City, capturing the effervescent and ephemeral yet fundamentally human spirit within his works.
They will:
• Spend several weeks researching Delaney’s paintings and life in New York, developing both an empirical and embodied understanding of his world
• Travel to Greenwich Village, Harlem, and other locations Delaney frequented, recording atmospheric field recordings of the environments where he worked and lived
• Gather and edit those recordings into a series of soundscapes and musical collages to be displayed on the Wells International Foundation Website for The Beauford Delaney Project—Where Scholarship Meets Community.
