Sydney Summey is finishing her MA in Art Education at The Ohio State University, where she will continue her studies into her PhD, deepening her research on the Black archive and Inheritance. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts with a focus in photography from The Ohio State University in 2022. During her undergraduate studies, Sydney cultivated her photographic practice as both an expressive medium and a critical tool to challenge western dominant histories that attempt to limit Blackness. In addition to photography, her digital drawings embody a practice to expand how Black life, culture, and futurity can be expressed and accessed. Sydney’s visualization of Black futurity stems from her exploration of Black matriarchal photographic archives and she has been deeply influenced by the Black scholars within her family and Black feminist scholars, theorists and artists such as Tina M. Campt, Tiya Miles, Deborah Willis, bell hooks, dr. gloria j. wilson and Dr. Joni Boyd Acuff.