BLACK FUTURES IN ART 2026: The Excellence Beneath My Feet Lives Within My Bones, The Genome Speaks What Erasure Cannot Silence
Dates: 20 February – 29 March, 2026
Events:
“Whispers of the Soul” Documentary Screening : February 3rd, 5 – 8 PM (TICKETS)
Opening Party: Friday, February 20th, 5 – 8 PM
Artist Talk: Wednesday, March 18th, 5 – 8 PM
Curator: Adderly Grant-Lord
Artists: Adderly Grant-Lord, Adri Norris, Clifton Henri, Gedion Nyanhongo, James Dixon, Lydia Carlis, Louise Cutler, SaToro Tafura, Sir James McArthur Cole, Thomas Lockhart, Zin Maisiri
Five years in, Black Futures in Art stands as a living testament to vision, community, and creative inheritance. What began as an idea has become a gathering—of artists, voices, families, and futures—woven together by joy, intention, and shared imagination. This moment marks half a decade of presence, growth, and impact in Boulder County, carried forward with clarity and purpose. In this fifth year, we stand rooted in the excellence that carried us here—excellence beneath our feet, living within our bones. Everything we are, and everything we will ever be, we carry with us. It is memory and momentum. It is joy and knowing. It is encoded.
The artists and works in this exhibition are forged from experience, lineage, and lived truth. They rise from inheritance and imagination, shaped by an unstoppable creative force that has always made worlds within and beyond the ones given. What you encounter here is brilliance in motion—color, rhythm, and spirit speaking across time. We honor the shoulders that lift us. We acknowledge the ancestors whose courage carved pathways for our voices, our colors, and our futures. Their strength moves through every line, stroke, and gesture in this space—alive, present, and guiding. Their wisdom reminds us that greatness was placed within us long before we could name it.
Black Futures in Art holds the full spectrum of our becoming:
art shaped by joy and transformation,
radiance born of resilience,
burden transmuted into brilliance.
Here, we witness greatness carried and greatness claimed. We have learned to shift, to rise, and to create in the light of our own authority. What lives within us is unmovable, undeniable, and unsilenced—encoded in our very genome. As individual creators, visionaries, and storytellers, we gather in community. We may arrive as one, but we stand as many—amplified by connection, strengthened by collective vision.
This exhibition is a celebration of the people this work has touched, the relationships formed, and the creative ecosystems nurtured along the way. Black Futures in Art is not a moment; it is a continuum—growing, evolving, and reaching outward with intention. Thank you for the time you spend here—time that cannot be returned. In exchange, we offer vision, care, and energy meant to carry you forward. May what you receive take root, awaken memory, and remind you of who you are becoming. This is given with joy, with gratitude, and with celebration.