Art institute of Chicago
Project a Black Planet:
The Art and Culture of Panafric
December 15, 2024 -March 30, 2025
Project a Black Planet: The Art and Culture of Panafrica is the first exhibition expressly devoted to modern and contemporary cultural activity through a pan-Africanist lens. Pan-Africanism, a term first circulated around 1900, is widely understood as a political movement claiming solidarity and freedom for African and African diasporic peoples around the world. The cultural dimensions of that drive for political emancipation are readily accepted but have not been comprehensively examined. In this era of heightened attention to racial strife and hopefully lasting commitments to equity and inclusion for people of color across Western institutions, a major survey of Pan-Africanism in the arts seems especially timely.
Art Institute of Chicago,
December 2024 - March 2025
Museu d'art contemporani de Barcelona,
Spring/Summer 2025
Kanal – Centre Pompidou, Brussels,
Fall/Winter 2025 - 2026
Charmaine Bernice Spencer (American, born 1970). Air, 2024. Project a Black Planet; thesis, art and artist statements, poems, music, art images and written letters to the ancestors (shredded) African lost-wax filigree brass trade beads, vintage African lost-wax brass bell beads, brass wire, faux leather cord and gold paper. 8 ft. x 9 ft. x 3 ft.