Call for art
Afrofuturism at UMBC
posted about 10 years ago
Time travel, space travel, and colonialism.
Cyborgs, androids, and race.
These are all topics of afrofuturist art.
My name is Jazmin Smith and I was awarded an Undergraduate Research Award to curate an exhibition of afrofuturist art by members of the UMBC community. I am currently looking for submissions of afrofuturist artwork, in any medium, to show in February/March 2015 at a gallery in Baltimore. The work will also be featured in a related publication.
An afrofuturist work is one that is both speculative and specific to the experiences of the African diaspora. Common themes of afrofuturist art include alien abduction, the final frontier, re-imagining history, and race as technology. These themes are common in fantasy, magical realism, and science fiction in general but when explored through the lens of the Africana experience, the work becomes afrofuturist. For more information about afrofuturism visit afrofuturismresources.tumblr.com/
Fantasy and science fiction have long been used to analyze society and culture from a white, Euro-American point of view. The purpose of this exhibition is to open the conversation to the rest of us.
If this sounds like a project that interests you, please email me at jazmin3@umbc.edu for more information and to discuss proposed artwork
Cyborgs, androids, and race.
These are all topics of afrofuturist art.
My name is Jazmin Smith and I was awarded an Undergraduate Research Award to curate an exhibition of afrofuturist art by members of the UMBC community. I am currently looking for submissions of afrofuturist artwork, in any medium, to show in February/March 2015 at a gallery in Baltimore. The work will also be featured in a related publication.
An afrofuturist work is one that is both speculative and specific to the experiences of the African diaspora. Common themes of afrofuturist art include alien abduction, the final frontier, re-imagining history, and race as technology. These themes are common in fantasy, magical realism, and science fiction in general but when explored through the lens of the Africana experience, the work becomes afrofuturist. For more information about afrofuturism visit afrofuturismresources.tumblr.com/
Fantasy and science fiction have long been used to analyze society and culture from a white, Euro-American point of view. The purpose of this exhibition is to open the conversation to the rest of us.
If this sounds like a project that interests you, please email me at jazmin3@umbc.edu for more information and to discuss proposed artwork
(edited about 10 years ago)
