We talked with Jean-Marc Sovak. Jean-Marc’s “a-Historical Landscapes” involve altering original 19th-century landscape engravings to include images from Anti-Slavery publications. His public artworks include monuments to Afro-Dutch pioneers in Rockland County, NY, and a memorial to some of the earliest Africans to arrive in Rhode Island. A Bard College M.F.A. graduate, Jean-Marc is the recipient of an Individual Artist’s Commission and an Empowering Artist Award from Art Mid-Hudson. His artwork has been exhibited at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Arts Westchester, Socrates Sculpture Park, and Recess Arts, Brooklyn, and is in the permanent collections of the Loeb Arts Center and the Dorsky Museum where he has been a Guest Curator. Jean-Marc has been a Visiting Artist at Bard College, SUNY New Paltz, Columbia University, and Vassar College.⁠