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Organized by Scholar Dr. Reynaldo Anderson
Curated by Sheree Renée Thomas, Danielle L. Littlefield, and Dacia Polk with Black Speculative Arts Movement
Curating The End Of The World: Red Spring is an exciting Afrofuturist resource, a creative lens, and a tool for interrogation asking the questions that plague us all: what ancient and familiar new blossoms will spring up from the change the world demands now? What sacrifices and compromises will be made in the days ahead? Red Spring evokes the clarion call for dignity, equality, and justice portrayed in Claude McKay’s classic Red Summer poem, If We Must Die.
Dedicated to a pioneering Afrofuturist forerunner Algernon Miller, the virtual exhibition is comprised of four distinct parts:
Part I: Ancestral Memory
Part II: Upheavals & Resistance
Part III: Afrofuturism & New Myths
Part VI: Wildseeds & Black Futures
Featuring an international coterie of artists from Brazil, Colombia, the Caribbean, Canada, Africa, and the US, Red Spring speaks to the temporal and systemic changes that must come to pass throughout the diaspora in order to birth futures where Black Lives truly matter.