Hoo-Doula/Voo-Doula: An AfroFutures Syllabus
The CultSTATUS Arts Haven, in collaboration with The Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History.
Hoo-Doula/Voo-Doula
Hoo-Doula/Voo-Doula: An AfroFutures Syllabus
Curated & Presented By The CultSTATUS Arts Haven
Hosted on November 2nd 2016 at The Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History
Hoo-Doula/Voo-Doula speculates re: Black Women and Girls as the nebulae for Black Progress. It imagines altering timelines of reality: WE as mystic/spiritual talisman to the past. WE as umbilical cord to our future. WE as SuperMassiveBlackHole portal to forever. What happens when we assist in our own Birth? ----------------------------------
ABOUT THE WOMEN: Founded by Constance SHERESE Collier-Mercado A Black Woman Writer/Artist and self-proclaimed “Anthropologist of the Arts” in search of all the culture she can get … The CultSTATUS Arts Haven is a multidisciplinary cultural & creative petri-dish which seeks to provide a safe space for the connection {and intersection} of writers, artists, wanderers, social instigators, scientists, activists, educators, and other critical thinkers rooted in a desire to elevate the African Diaspora and uplift Communities of Color. This radical arts clinic works to foster an holistic environment of Immersion & Experimentation with a commitment to achieving social equity from the chaos.
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Decades before the Auburn Avenue Research Library opened, its core collection was formed at the Auburn Branch of the Carnegie Library of Atlanta … The one-story red-brick building, located at 333 Auburn Avenue, officially opened July 25, 1921, becoming Atlanta's first public library branch for African Americans. From 1921 until the branch closed in 1959, numerous women of color managed and administered the facility and provided educational and community programming. Among them were Alice Dugged Cary and Annie L. McPheeters, who was responsible for much of the development of the core collection, known as the Negro History Collection, in size and significance. Anchoring the west end of the Sweet Auburn historic district, the Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History opened May 1994 in Atlanta. A special library of the Atlanta-Fulton Public Library System (A-FPLS), it is the first public library in the Southeast to offer specialized reference and archival collections dedicated to the study and research of African American culture and history and of other peoples of African descent. In 2001 the library received a Governor's Award in the Humanities.
ABOUT THE EVENT: From The Producer Curated and Presented by The CultSTATUS Arts Haven, this one-night-only convening, hosted by The Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History, uses a woman centered approach to give an overview of AfroFuturism in Art and Literature. What is AfroFuturism? How have its roots spread in Atlanta? Who were the women that played an instrumental role in its development? Where are we potentially going within the genre? Is there room for a political/subversive nature also? These ideas and more are discussed in a series of excerpt readings and panel discussion on the evening of Wednesday, November 2nd 2016.
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From The Venue In collaboration with The CultSTATUS Arts Haven, the Auburn Avenue Research Library hosts Hoo-Doula/Voo-Doula: An AfroFutures Syllabus. This community dialogue explores the conceptual presence of Africana Womanist philosophy and Black Feminist theory in the art and literature of contemporary Afrofuturism. Via a series of excerpt readings and a communal panel discussion, it examines how Afrofuturism is defined; the role of black women in its ongoing development as an artistic genre; and its socio-political relevance as cultural activism.
INTRODUCTION: Hoo-Doula/Voo-Doula. This AfroFutures Syllabus has had many lives. Many iterations over the past year. First, I envisioned simply a movement. A single interpretive dance to honor The Kinfolk and imagine a possible Future. But I am not a classically trained dancer and the future seemed too vast to weigh down with the burden of just one reality. I put it aside for a time. I am an artist and a wordsmith, though. So the future returned to me in pieces over several months. Sometimes in lyrics to songs by the likes of Macy Gray, Janelle Monae, and Waking Astronomer. Other times, in lines of my own poetry and visual art. Most often, throughout the almost non-stop traumas to the collective Black psyche over the summer. I have repeatedly found healing and peace in the creative responses of Black Women. And a thought occurred to me that if healing exists in the works of Black Women via our #BlackGirlMagic and #Lemonade and #SayHerName and Spelman Museum's #BeYourOwnMuse campaign, then maybe something more than just healing 'in the now', but power and progress in the Future were also tied up in Black Women's Wombs. Across not just the field of Dance. Or Literature - where many acknowledge that Afrofuturism was first born. But, maybe across all disciplines. In the form of not just the literal children we bear, but the feats of individuality and personal growth we give life to. I am a multidisciplinary artist, so this idea fit with the way I think, in general, and I wanted to share that with this city. You will find that this syllabus is especially interested in Deep Future interpretations of these ideas. So, I created Hoo-Doula/Voo-Doula. And the concept of ‘What happens when we #AssistInOurOwnBirth. With contributions from the Atlanta community itself. But, maybe I should back up a step. What really is Afrofuturism? How do we define it? Cultural critic Mark Dery is credited with first coining the term ‘Afrofuturism’ in response to a 1994 series of interviews he conducted with Africana Studies professor Tricia Rose, musician Greg Tate, and popular Science Fiction writer Samuel R. Delaney. The interview and corresponding essay are in my opinion, clueless at best; smug, condescending, and more than a little patronizing at worst. But, the term Afrofuturism has stuck … more or less. “Speculative fiction that treats African-American themes and addresses African-American concerns in the context of twentieth-century technoculture … might, for want of a better term, be called ‘Afrofuturism.’ ”
That’s it. That is Afrofuturism, as it was initially conceived. And, yes, the term has stuck for the most part. But, you know I couldn’t just leave it at that, right? I prefer the term ‘AfroFutures,’ for several reasons, some of which I explained in a September 22nd Facebook post written back when Hoo-Doula/Voo-Doula was still planned as a week-long festival - and which I’ve highlighted at the end of this introductory statement. But, author, Ytasha L. Womack does an even better job of filling in the gaps left by that original definition when she describes Afrofuturism as: “… the growing artistic movement and critiques that followed narratives of people of African descent in a sci-fi, futuristic treaties. Afrofuturists seek to inspire and forge a stronger self-identity and respect for humanity by encouraging enthusiasts to reexamine their environments and reimagine the future in a cross cultural context … The aesthetic includes the music, visual art, literature, film, critical essays and other mediums dedicated to futuristic explorations primarily through the arts. Works range in theme and story lines but they are typically characterized by compelling insights, both cosmetic and analytical into black identity in the Americas, Caribbean, Latin America, and Africa and beyond.”
My hope is that, with this syllabus, you will hone in on your own definitions/wordings which highlight Black women’s contributions to the genre while offering an even greater level of plurality to its implications. Perhaps, even lining up in some ways with a more revolutionary mindset, similar to that of Octavia’s Brood co-editors Walidah Imarisha and Adrienne Maree Brown: “Whenever we try to envision a world without war, without violence, without prisons, without capitalism, we are engaging in an exercise of speculative fiction. Organizers and activists struggle tirelessly to create and envision another world, or many other worlds, just as science fiction does … We believe that radical science fiction is actually better termed visionary fiction because it pulls from real life experience, inequalities and movement building to create innovative ways of understanding the world around us, paint visions of new worlds that could be, and teach us new ways of interacting with one another. Visionary fiction engages our imaginations and hearts, and guides our hands as organizers.”
An understanding which links past and future. Spans the breadth and width of the African Diaspora. Bridges the entirety of every possible alternate Afro-universe extending from every decision or non-decision the collective Black consciousness has ever made. And, expertly navigates all of it, like two pigtailed little Black girls playing a never-ending game of doubledutch hopscotch across the stars. With that ‘Black-girl-nebula’ in mind, most of the literary references in this syllabus are confined to the works of Black women writers, with the music and artwork entries remaining open to both genders. However, there are a few noted exceptions, in the form of those male writers whose works were part of what inspired me to begin this project in the first place … or
whose names were listed as the editor for a speculative fiction anthology that included too many great submissions to be excluded. From the conjure woman folktales of Charles W. Chesnutt to the Hoodoo woman grandmother in Nalo Hopkinson’s Brown Girl in the Ring, ultimately, this syllabus is less about keeping the men out and more about creating a space to honor the many beautiful, beautiful Black women contributors to the genre and our numerous AfroFuture(s). I hope you will enjoy exploring them with me.
Constance SHERESE Collier-Mercado, Writer/Artist & Founder at The CultSTATUS Arts Haven
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"Why Black Speculation Re: Our AfroFutures Is So Much More Than Just a Fun Pastime." (1 of Infinite) Alton Sterling was murdered on July 5th of this year. Philando Castile, on the 6th. In the wake of their deaths, it took us over a week to even begin to process the oppressive weight of grief we were feeling. When we finally returned to social media - and this community – we shared with all of you our own insecurities about how we could possibly do something that would actually matter in proportion to all that was wrong in our world. We found solace in Black Womanhood. Personally, within the vision of some of our own projects and initiatives - like our HooDoula/Voo-Doula AfroFutures Festival. But, more profoundly, within the wisdom of women like Alice Walker, the founders of Black Lives Matter, Audre Lorde, and the all-birthing nebulae of the Universe. We promised we would share some of that inspiration with you all. And, today, we will. But, we're also going to share some of our trauma. Because, in the aftermath of two more Black Futures being snuffed out - Terence Crutcher and Keith Lamont Scott - finding the strength to share our vulnerability yet again has taken every ounce of willpower we have. We are exhausted. I, Constance SHERESE, am exhausted from the constant barrage of abuse. I would gladly curl into a ball of self-protection and quietly weep for all that is stolen from us on a daily basis. And, sometimes that is a necessary moment to have. And, yet. If the mission of The CultSTATUS Arts Haven is to be "a multidisciplinary cultural & creative petri-dish which ... provide[s] a safe space for the connection {and intersection} of ... critical
thinkers rooted in a desire to elevate the African Diaspora and uplift Communities of Color" then we need to BE that safe space - live and breathe that safe space for others too. It can be so much easier to vent in the relative anonymity of our homes or a private Facebook page. Opening up those feeling in a place of community is much more daunting. But, Black culture is rooted in that very 'Umoja' sense of community. It is what heals us. And that is part of why AfroFutures Festivals, and the Atlanta Black Theatre Festival, and the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, and even Black Twitter are so vital. They're not just a fun experience or night out. (Although we do know how to turn up when need be!) But, they are a people's way of screaming and laughing and crying and acting a damn fool and loving our way to a better tomorrow. We are revolutionary in community. So, for the indefinite future we are going to spend some time unpacking the many variations on the AfroFutures of our people as we see it. Specifically, the 13 bullet pointed Deep Future concepts we listed on our Call for Submissions to this year's inaugural AfroFutures Festival. These ideas are important to us because they speak to the best and worst - the fullness - of both the Black past AND future. First up: WELLNESS. Because we're really feeling like shit right now. ~ cS, The Founder
CONTENTS: I.
Birthing Wellness: Black Midwifery & Doula Traditions During Times of Trauma
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Hoodoo/Voodoo Women: Healers, Mysticism, Clairvoyance, & Tarot
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Black Faith: Spirituality & Religion
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Nation-Birthing as Black Progress: Hagar/Ishmael vs. Sarah/Isaac ---------------
V. VI. VII. VIII.
Rape Culture, Abortion, Womanism, & Feminism Self-Determination: Liberation, Rebellion, & Mental Health Intersectionality & Allyship: Njinga Mbande to Black Lives Matter Dystopia as Diaspora: Displaced or Developing? ---------------
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Gender Roles/Norms: Matriarchy, Sexuality, & Black Queer Ascendancy Black Wealth as Womanhood: Suga Momma/Big Momma/Baby Momma ---------------
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The Black Twitter Phenomenon: Afro-Millennial Language & Communication as Innovation Oral Tradition & Trickster Tales ---------------
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Black disABILITY Culture ---------------
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Playlist Prospectus Visual & Performance Art -*-
Birthing Wellness: Black Midwifery & Doula Traditions in Times of Trauma
The New Moon’s Arms
Nalo Hopkinson
Hard Times Require Furious Dancing
Alice Walker
Being Full of Light, Insubstantial
Linda Addison
No God but Ghosts: Poems
Mai’a Williams
Revolutionary Petunias and Other Poems
Alice Walker
Birthing Justice: Black Women, Pregnancy and Childbirth
Alicia D. Bonaparte & Julia Chinyere Oparah
Radical Doula Guide: A Political Primer for Full-Spectrum Pregnancy and Childbirth Support
Miriam Zoila Perez
* International Center for Traditional Childbearing - https://ictcmidwives.org/ *
Shafia M. Monroe
*Resource Website – Not A Book*
Hoodoo/Voodoo Women: Healers, Mysticism, Clairvoyance, & Tarot
Hoodoo You Love: Poetry and Art …
Renee Stout
The Good House
Tananarive Due
Brown Girl in the Ring
Nalo Hopkinson
Redwood and Wildfire
Andrea Hairston
Long Juju Man
Nnedi Okorafor
Mojo: Conjure Stories
Nalo Hopkinson
Shadowshaper
Daniel Jose Older
Dark Matter: Reading the Bones
Sheree Thomas
Wee Winnie Witch’s Skinny
Virginia Hamilton
Devil’s Dance
Gisele Pineau
I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem
Maryse Conde
Saltwater Healing: A Myth Memoir and Poems
Angelique V. Nixon
Tell My Horse
Zora Neale Hurston
Pendulums and Protection
A. Bernette
The Conjure Woman
Charles Waddell Chesnutt
*http://kalungaavenue.tumblr.com/ *
Madame Omi Kongo
*http://vudutarot.tumblr.com/ *
Monroe Rodriguez Singh
*http://guerrillamamamedicine.tumblr.com/ *
Mai’a Williams
*Resource Websites – Not A Book*
Black Faith: Spirituality & Religion
Parable of the Sower
Octavia Butler
The Sanctified Church
Zora Neale Hurston
Lagoon
Nnedi Okorafor
In The Beginning: Creation Stories From Around the World
Virginia Hamilton
Parable of the Talents
Octavia Butler
Justice and Her Brothers (Justice Trilogy)
Virginia Hamilton
The Drifting of Spirits
Gisele Pineau
Moses, Man of the Mountain
Zora Neale Hurston
The Opposite House
Helen Oyeyemi
The Killing Moon (Dreamblood Series)
N. K. Jemisin
Òrìşà Devotion as World Religion: The Globalization of Yorùbá Religious Culture
Jacob K. Olupona & Terry Rey
Our Lady of Class Struggle
Terry Rey
Pataki
Obafemi Origunwa, MA
Nation-Birthing as Black Progress: Hagar/Ishmael vs. Sarah/Isaac
Dawn (Lilith’s Brood)
Octavia Butler
Tree of Life: A Novel of the Caribbean
Maryse Conde
Jonah’s Gourd Vine: A Novel
Zora Neale Hurston
The Best of All Possible Worlds
Karen Lord
Clay’s Ark (Patternist Series)
Octavia Butler
Image Credit: Constance SHERESE Collier-Mercado
© 2014
Rape Culture, Abortion, Womanism, & Feminism
Beloved
Toni Morrison
Wild Seed (Patternist Series)
Octavia Butler
Midnight Robber
Nalo Hopkinson
Womanism: The Dynamics of the Contemporary Black Female Novel in English
Chikwenye Okonjo Ogunyemi
Who Fears Death
Nnedi Okorafor
Report from Planet Midnight
Nalo Hopkinson
Sisterfire: Black Womanist Fiction & Poetry
Charlotte Watson Sherman
Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity
Alexis Pauline Gumbs
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
Audre Lorde
In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens: Womanist Prose
Alice Walker
Deals With the Devil: And Other Reasons to Riot
Pearl Cleage
Africana Womanism: Reclaiming Ourselves
Clenora Hudson-Weems
Black Feminist Thought
Patricia Hill Collins
Self-Determination: Liberation, Rebellion, & Mental Health
The Shadowed Sun (Dreamblood Series)
N. K. Jemisin
Mind of my Mind (Patternist Series)
Octavia Butler
The Between
Tananarive Due
Binti
Nnedi Okorafor
The Chaos
Nalo Hopkinson
Consumed, Reduced to Beautiful Gray Ashes
Linda Addison
The Book of Phoenix
Nnedi Okorafor
(Prequel to “Who Fears Death”)
Monsters and Other Silent Creatures
Mai’a Williams
Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction Stories From Social Justice Movements
Adrienne Maree Brown & Walidah Imarisha
The Story of the Cannibal Woman
Maryse Conde
Macadam Dreams
Gisele Pineau
Three Strong Women
Marie Ndiaye
Self-Portrait in Green
Marie Ndiaye
So Long A Letter
Mariama Ba
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Zora Neale Hurston
The Black Unicorn: Poems
Audre Lorde
The Color Purple
Alice Walker
Shadow Walker
L. A. Banks
Juniper’s Whitening & Victimese: Two Modern Plays
Helen Oyeyemi
Intersectionality & Allyship: Njinga Mbande to Black Lives Matter
Imago (Lilith’s Brood)
Octavia Butler
The Gathering (Justice Trilogy)
Virginia Hamilton
Survivor (Patternist Series)
Octavia Butler
A Taste of Eternity: A Novel
Gisele Pineau
All My Friends
Marie Ndiaye
Climbing PoeTree
Alixa Garcia & Naima Penniman
What Sunny Saw in the Flames/ Akata Witch
Nnedi Okorafor
Sister Outsider
Audre Lorde
Chosen
A. Bernette
On Intersectionality: The Essential Writings of Kimberle Crenshaw
Kimberle Williams Crenshaw
Crossed: The Karma Crusades
A. Bernette
* #VisionForBlackLives Policy Demands Booklet - https://policy.m4bl.org/downloads/ *
Multiple Contributors
*Resource Document – Not A Book*
Dystopia as Diaspora: Displaced or Developing?
Adulthood Rites (Lilith’s Brood)
Octavia Butler
Haiti Noir
Edwidge Danticat
The Salt Roads
Nalo Hopkinson
Mindscape
Andrea Hairston
Everfair: A Novel
Nisi Shawl
Dustland (Justice Trilogy)
Virginia Hamilton
Patternmaster (Patternist Series)
Octavia Butler
Between Two Worlds
Simone Schwarz-Bart
Kabu Kabu
Nnedi Okorafor
Dark Dreams I, II, III
Brandon Massey
Ink
Sabrina Vourvoulias
See Now Then
Jamaica Kincaid
The Temple of My Familiar
Alice Walker
A Stranger in Olondria
Sofia Samatar
Resisting Paradise: Tourism, Diaspora
Angelique V. Nixon
and Sexuality in Caribbean Culture
Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora
Sheree Thomas
Gender Roles/Norms: Matriarchy, Sexuality, & Black Queer Ascendancy
Boy, Snow, Bird
Helen Oyeyemi
The Gilda Stories
Jewelle Gomez
Ancient, Ancient
Kiini Ibura Salaam
Don’t Explain
Jewelle Gomez
When the World Wounds
Kiini Ibura Salaam
Rise of the Rain Queen
Fiona Zedde
Revolutionary Mothering:
Alexis Pauline Gumbs
Love on the Front Lines
We Can Learn to Mother Ourselves:
China Martens & Mai’a Williams
Alexis Pauline Gumbs
The Queer Survival of Black Feminism
Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power
Audre Lorde
By The Light of My Father’s Smile: A Story of Requited Love, Crossing Over and the Sexual Healing of the Soul
Alice Walker
Black Wealth as Womanhood: Suga Momma/Big Momma/Baby Momma
The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms (The Inheritance Trilogy)
N. K. Jemisin
Will Do Magic for Small Change
Andrea Hairston
The Girl Who Spun Gold
Virginia Hamilton
Ladivine
Marie Ndiaye
Everyday Use
Alice Walker
The Broken Kingdoms (The Inheritance Trilogy)
N. K. Jemisin
A Raisin in the Sun
Lorraine Hansberry
Racing the Dark
Alaya Dawn Johnson
The Winged Histories
Sofia Samatar
Orleans
Sherri L. Smith
Long Hidden: Speculative Fiction from the Margins of History
Rose Fox and Daniel Jose Older (M)
The Kingdom of Gods (The Inheritance Trilogy)
N. K. Jemisin
I Just Wanna Testify
Pearl Cleage
Longing to Tell: Black Women Talk About Sexuality and Intimacy
Tricia Rose
The Black Twitter Phenomenon: Afro-Millennial Language & Communication as Innovation
Original Image Credit: Eliot Elisofon Š 1970
Geek Wisdom: The Sacred Teachings of Nerd Culture
N. K. Jemisin, Eric San Juan, and Genevieve Valentine
What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours
Helen Oyeyemi
Love is the Drug
Alaya Dawn Johnson
Afrofuturism: The World of Black Sci Fi and Fantasy Culture
Ytasha L. Womack
Lonely Stardust: Two Plays, a Speech, and Eight Essays
Andrea Hairston
The Summer Prince
Alaya Dawn Johnson
The Galaxy Game
Karen Lord
Smoketown: A Novel
Tenea D. Johnson
Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America
Tricia Rose
Black Quantum Futurism: Theory & Practice
Rasheedah Phillips
Oral Tradition & Trickster Tales
Tar Baby
Toni Morrison
Chicken in the Kitchen
Nnedi Okorafor
Oral Tradition: Selected Poems, Old & New
Jewelle Gomez
Whisper from the Cotton Tree Root
Nalo Hopkinson
Zahrah the Windseeker
Nnedi Okorafor
Filter House
Nisi Shawl
The People Could Fly
Virginia Hamilton
Her Stories
Virginia Hamilton
The All Jahdu Storybook
Virginia Hamilton
Every Tongue Got to Confess
Zora Neale Hurston
Redemption in Indigo
Karen Lord
The Icarus Girl
Helen Oyeyemi
Black disABILITY Culture
Bleeding Violet
Dia Reeves
The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth Series)
N. K. Jemisin
The Evening and the Morning and the Night
Octavia Butler
Sister Mine
Nalo Hopkinson
The Obelisk Gate (The Broken Earth Series)
N. K. Jemisin
*National Black Disability Coalition – www.BlackDisability.org *
Jane Dunhamn
Image Credit: Constance SHERESE Collier-Mercado
*Resource Website – Not A Book*
© 2015
Playlist Prospectus
Visual & Performance Art
Image Credit: Constance SHERESE Collier-Mercado
© 2015
Visual Art/Ceramics - TactileMatter.com
Kenesha Sneed
Exhibition(s) - Subjective Cosmology and The Pasts They Brought With Them
Sanford Biggers
Exhibition – The Ecstasy of St. Kara, New Work
Kara Walker
Exhibition(s) – Black White and Blend
Betye Saar
Exhibition – Chisholm’s Reverb
Rodney McMillian
Exhibition - Do I Look Like a Lady?
Mickalene Thomas
Exhibition - Afrofuturism: Black Science Fiction
Frances Bodomo, Wangechi Mutu, Akosua Adoma Owusu Adebukola Buki Bodunrin Ezra Claytan Daniels Martine Syms Saya Woolfalk
Exhibition – La Limpia Project
Wendy Phillips
Exhibition - The Freedom Principle: Experiments in Art & Music, 1965 to Now
Intergenerational Group Show
Exhibition - Brides of Anansi
Xenobia Bailey, Sonya Clark, Januwa Moja, Senga Nengudi, Nnenna Okore, Joyce J. Scott, Adejoke Tugbiyele, Saya Woolfalk
Exhibition – The Kitchen Table Series
Carrie Mae Weems
Exhibition - DO or DIE: Affect, Ritual, Resistance
Fahamu Pecou
Exhibition/Book – Tales of the Conjure Woman
Renee Stout/Fatima Mayield
Exhibition – Soundsuits
Nick Cave
Exhibition – Improvisational Gestures
Senga Nengudi
Art Series – Sacred Geometry
Renee Cox
Art Series – White Noise
Bethany Collins
Art Series – The Fair Game Project
Shanequa Gay
Art Series – Wool
Crystal Marshall
Art Series – Contraption
Fabian Williams
Art Series – Before We Blast Off
Michi Meku
Painting – Portals
Njideka Akunyili Crosby
Interpretive Dance - Their Eyes Were Watching God
Dianne McIntyre
Interpretive Dance – Post Up Series
T. Lang Dance
Noteworthy Names Grace Kisa Yinka Shonibare Shinique Smith Dawn Boyd Williams Kimberly Drew Selana Allen Marcella Muhammad Moor Mother Goddess Julie Mehretu Juliana Huxtable Bazaar Noir - Atlanta