A dynamic presentation made up of virtual and public art exhibitions by Caribbean-American artist Theda Sandiford, Hidden in Plain Sight confronts the psychological impact of racial gaslighting as it has been revealed in her everyday interactions.

“Using racial conflict as a starting point, I juxtapose various fibers with a variety of found materials using free form weaving, coiling, knotting, wrapping and jewelry making techniques.  Meticulously collected materials, transformed by their collective memory become “social fabric” weaving together contemporary issues and personal narratives.

100-foot extensions of rope, twine, and yarn impeccably wrapped, woven, tied and embellished with recycled beads, ribbon, lace, tape and bottle cap bobbles lures you into my hue-imbued, enmeshed installations symbolizing natural hair. These bold albeit whimsically twisted and locked forms gingerly invite the audience into off the-wall conversations about micro aggressions against black women and their hair.

Community art making is also key to my process. Multi-disciplinary experiences pairing people, food, wine, music and art, create a safe space to explore themes such as equity & inclusion, sustainability and personal wellbeing.” – Theda Sandiford

For further information at The Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts (MoCADA) website.

An online exhibition, Culture at Work Africa, Multimedia Digital Showcase & Graphic Wall Map includes 33 projects that were conducted in 15 African countries (Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Kenya, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda and Zimbabwe).

Discover the projects here.

A physical exhibition will also be presented in Abidjan at La Rotonde des Arts (20.05-13.06.2021)

For further information at Bozar - Centre for Fine Arts website.

A retrospective featuring Nigerian artist Ndidi Emefiele, and her tableaux vivants that celebrate Black women realized through collage, textiles and other traditional materials.

For further information at The Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts (MoCADA) website.

The exhibition is the third chapter of a three-part exhibition series, The New Nsukka School, which re-examines the conceptual and material practices that characterize the art department at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka.

Ozioma Onuzulike often explores the aesthetic, symbolic and metaphorical nature of clay (his basic material) and the clay-working processes – pounding, crushing, hammering, wedging, grinding, cutting, pinching, punching, perforating, burning, firing – in his making of the multiple units that characterise his mixed-media projects.

His recent work has been inspired by the aesthetic and conceptual force held by such natural resources as yam tubers, palm kernel shells and honeycombs which he mass-produces in terracotta and weaves together in often laborious processes.

For further information at the kó art gallery website.

The Non – Traditional exhibition is part of the (CaFA) Caribbean Fine Art Festival 2021. Zoe Osborne of Mahogany Culture is the guest curator of this exhibition which features art work from 6 emerging Barbadian artists that are located in Barbados and the Diaspora.

The theme of the exhibition is an exploration of non traditional expressions of Caribbean identity, with a focus on exploratory fine art and digital art.

Artists: Akilah Watts, Alex Gibson, Brandon K Best, Housing Area, John Alleyne, Sydney Mcconney

For further information at the Mahogany Culture Collective website.

This exhibition—the first survey of Clark’s 25-year career—includes the artist’s well-known sculptures made from black pocket combs, human hair, and thread as well as works created from flags, currency, beads, cotton plants, pencils, books, a typewriter, and a hair salon chair. The artist transmutes each of these everyday objects through her application of a vast range of fiber-art techniques: Clark weaves, stitches, folds, braids, dyes, pulls, twists, presses, snips, or ties within each object.

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For further information at the National Museum of Women in the Arts website.

"Zone Franche" is a collective adventure, the fruit of a meeting between three artistic structures located in Cameroon, Morocco and France, driven by the same desire to interact with the urban ecosystems that gave them birth.

Works by : Mariam Abouzid Souali, Mohamed Arejdal, Malala Andrialavidrazana, Sabrina Belouaar, Mansour Ciss, Saïdou Dicko, Hicham Gardaf, Chourouk Hriech, Smaïl Kanouté, Le Cercle Kapsiki, Salifou Lindou, Randa Maroufi, Jean David Nkot and Fatiha Zemmouri.

For further information at Institut des Cultures d’Islam website

Exhibition organized as part of Saison Africa2020.

A virtual exhibition that highlights expressions of contemporary Blackness as envisioned by South African and U.S. artists.

Participating artists:

• From South Africa - Theko Boshomane, Tshepiso Moropa, Lebohang Motaung, Lebo Thoka, and Helena Uambembe ;

• From the United States - Aaron Beitia, Courageous, Nicole Dixon, Michon Sanders, Brette Sims, and Abba Yahudah.

For further information at Oakstop website.

An exhibition on works by multimedia artist Delita Martin that combine tradition with innovation. Through her rigorous and meticulously layered process, Martin creates a new iconography for African Americans, and claims space for her subjects, particularly black women—a powerful presence that simultaneously highlights the historical absence of black bodies in Western art.

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For further information at the National Museum of Women in the Arts website.

For further information and display at 697 THz website.

For further information at Smithsonian National Museum of African Art website

For further information at the Cornell Fine Arts Museum website.

For further information at the Wallach Art Gallery website