top
San Francisco
San Francisco
Indybay
Indybay
Indybay
Regions
Indybay Regions North Coast Central Valley North Bay East Bay South Bay San Francisco Peninsula Santa Cruz IMC - Independent Media Center for the Monterey Bay Area North Coast Central Valley North Bay East Bay South Bay San Francisco Peninsula Santa Cruz IMC - Independent Media Center for the Monterey Bay Area California United States International Americas Haiti Iraq Palestine Afghanistan
Topics
Newswire
Features
From the Open-Publishing Calendar
From the Open-Publishing Newswire
Indybay Feature

Root Division Presents: Diasporic Futurism Part II: The Future Futures

2.jpg
Date:
Saturday, February 13, 2021
Time:
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Event Type:
Other
Organizer/Author:
Renée Rhodes
Location Details:
Virtual Reception and Viewing: https://rootdivisiontalk.wpcomstaging.com/
In-person viewings by appointment only:
1131 Mission St. San Francisco, CA 94103

Curators:
Leah King & Juan Carlos Rodríguez Rivera

Exhibition Dates (on view by appointment):
February 1 - 27, 2021

2nd Saturday Virtual Reception:
Feb 13, 2021 from 6-8 pm (PST)

Image Info: Fight or Flight?, Tanna Tucker, 2020, digital and ink, 10 x 10 in.


Exhibiting Artists:

Dena Al-Adeeb**

Pansee Atta

Madame Bessie Snow**

Sofia Cordova**

Nimisha Doongarwal

Eseosa Edebiri
Carla Golder
Haldane Charles King
dani lopez*

Alicia McDaniel*
Afatasi the Artist
Richard-Jonathan Nelson

Ze Royale**

Mohsin Shafi**
Mimi Tempestt
Tanna Tucker**
Amy Vázquez
Cristina Victor **

Allison Yasukawa

* Current RD Studio Artist
** Diasporic Futurism Pt. 2 Artist


Join Root Division this February for Diasporic Futurism Part II: The Future Futures. As a curatorial project, Diasporic Futurism was born out of the desire to showcase and celebrate emerging and established Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) artists whose work reckons with the themes of imagination, identity, place, and joy. Diasporas are in reference to the history of forced migration as a result of political, cultural, and physical subjugation, which is the story of many BIPOC peoples currently living in occupied land. Futurism envisions imaginative, alternate realities full of beauty, possibility, and liberation of the sort systematically denied to those populations because of a patriarchal, capitalist, white supremacist society.

This curatorial project launched in July 2020 with a virtual exhibition — Part I: The Present Future — and continues this February with Diasporic Futurism Part II: The Future Futures. This iteration of the exhibition will feature site-based performances and an immersive and multidimensional experience in the gallery that features: video installations, 3-D artwork, surrealist painting, sculpture, comic, and graphic drawings.

Diasporic Futurism is firmly rooted in the desire to find joy in the dynamic chaos of systemic upheaval, while unapologetically centering the voices, lives, and stories of Black people.

Diasporic Futurism Part II: The Future Futures will be on view online from Feb. 1 - 27, 2021 in our virtual gallery: rootdivisiontalk.wordpress.com. In person appointments to the physical gallery will be determined at a later date alongside San Francisco mandates.

___
To view Diasporic Futurism Part II: The Future Futures, visit our exhibition site Root Division Talk: rootdivisiontalk.wordpress.com

To learn more about exhibition updates, visit our website and social media channels:
rootdivision.org
@rootdivision - (IG)
@RootDivision SF - (FB)

_________________________

ABOUT ROOT DIVISION
Root Division is a visual arts non-profit in San Francisco that connects creativity and community through a dynamic ecosystem of arts education, exhibitions, and studios. Root Division's mission is to empower artists, foster community service, inspire youth, and enrich the Bay Area through engagement in the visual arts. The organization is a launching pad for artists, a stepping-stone for educators and students, and a bridge for the general public to become involved in the arts.

Root Division is supported in part by a plethora of individual donors and by grants from the The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, National Endowment for the Arts/ Art Works, California Arts Council, Grants for the Arts, San Francisco Arts Commission: Community Investments, Phyllis C. Wattis Foundation, Fleishhacker Foundation, Zellerbach Family Foundation, Walter & Elise Haas Fund, Violet World Foundation, Deutsche Bank Foundation, Wells Fargo Foundation, and Bill Graham Memorial Fund.

Press Inquiries: Renée Rhodes, Art Programs Manager - renee [at] rootdivision.org

Added to the calendar on Mon, Jan 4, 2021 4:15PM
We are 100% volunteer and depend on your participation to sustain our efforts!

Donate

$110.00 donated
in the past month

Get Involved

If you'd like to help with maintaining or developing the website, contact us.

Publish

Publish your stories and upcoming events on Indybay.

IMC Network