What World? (The Arts League, July 2025)

What World? is a forthcoming art exhibit which seeks to lay bare how artists (and society more broadly) are experiencing the very surreal global political and social moment we are in. It is intended to hold space for the conflicting feelings of hope and the despair, optimism and pessimism, that living in today’s world inspires. Grounded in a practice of Black speculative futuring, What World? will explore both the potential promises and threats we face in the days to come.

Present Futures: Experiments in Feminist Futurity (University of Pennsylvania, September 2024 - December 2024)

In recent years, popular mobilizations like #MeToo, the traveling protest chant ‘Un violador en tu camino,’ and the International Women’s March have contributed to a global feminist resurgence. These moments of heightened visibility inspire, uplift, and illuminate pressing concerns facing women and gender-diverse individuals around the world but often eclipse the ongoing work at the grassroots level amidst seemingly insurmountable odds. Present Futures: Experiments in Feminist Futurity aims to highlight the undercurrents of popular feminisms — the acts, rituals, and practices that sustain transnational feminist solidarities and networks of care. In addition to co-curating this exhibition, I also contributed two pieces: Transmitting Tresses and Technologies of Motherhood. Learn more here.

An Otherwise Heaven (Da Vinci Art Alliance, October 2024)

For this exhibition, I contributed one collage from a series titled “Sacred. Secular. Spirituality.” This collage is a reflection on what it has meant, physically and emotionally, to decolonize my spirituality, learning to embody “an otherwise heaven” here on Earth. Exploring diasporic movement traditions and divination systems from West Africa to the U.S., this collage depicts the practices and places where I find bliss; it is a record of an embodied shift in how I understand freedom. Using recycled magazines, thrifted books, old newspapers, found materials, and poster-printed images, I used a variety of paper-based materials to create a dimensionality, vibrancy, and harmony that reflects how I picture an anti-colonial afterlife.

Period. A Black Menstrual Exhibit (Los Angeles, July 2024)

Curated by Raina Beigler & Birth Workers of Color Collective LB, this exhibition was a collection of works by Black woman and gender non-conforming folks rehashing, rejoicing and reclaiming their menstrual cycle. I contributed a piece titled “Epoch.” It piece is also a call to those who view it to take a moment to envision what freedom can and will look like in the times to come. It is a veneration, an invocation, and a supplication.

Screening Scholarship Media Festival 2024: ​Practices of Resurrection and Necromancy (University of Pennsylvania, April 2024)

The 2024 Screening Scholarship Media Festival explored “Practices of Resurrection and Necromancy,” uncovering the transformation which exists within loss. I contributed a piece titled “At My Altar,” which was a part of the opening performance for the festival. It featured a series of collages reflecting on ongoing atrocities around the globe. Learn more here.

The In-Between Spaces (West Gallery One at the Philadelphia Parkway Central Public Library, November 2023 - April 2024)

The In-Between Spaces exhibit was curated by Philly-based collage artist, archivist, and memory worker Doriana Diaz. It explored the vessels and tides of the collective aesthetic memory of Blackness through mediums such as film, photography, collage, bookmaking, and more. My contribution to this exhibit was titled “An Afrofuturist Retrospective of Black Womanhood.” This ongoing series of analog collages is an Afrofuturist exploration of the archives of Black womanhood.

Philadelphia Black History: The People’s Stories (Philadelphia City Hall, February - March 2024)

This exhibit was presented by The City of Philadelphia’s Office of Arts, Culture, and the Creative Economy (OACCE). The exhibit featured the art of 44 local artists whose works were represented as vinyl square tiles respectfully arranged on the floors of multiple hallways in Philadelphia’s City Hall. Each square tile was a tribute to a Black Philadelphian who has passed away and whose memory was elevated through art. The exhibit was inspired by the memory of the 5,000 forgotten souls buried at the rediscovered Bethel Burying Ground, a 19th century Black cemetery in the Queen Village neighborhood of Philadelphia. The piece I contributed was in honor of activist, scholar, author, and filmmaker Toni Cade Bambara. Learn more here.

Collaging as Multimodal Praxis (University of Pennsylvania’s “The Art and Science of Story-Centered Research” Course)

This guest lecture and workshop provided an introduction to multimodal theory and an opportunity for students to engage in collaging as a multimodal method. It explored how collage provides a method for making sense of the sometime non-linear relationships between subjects, and a means of clearly representing these.

Magazines & Black Visual Culture (Boston College’s “Black Popular Culture” Course)

This guest lecture and workshop explored the history of Black magazines as a way to trace Black politics and cultural developments through self-representation. Following a brief lecture about Black visual culture, I led students through a collaging exercise. After the lecture, I collated student collages and printed a magazine for distribution throughout the Communications Department.