Happenings

Visual Arts

• Dakota Camacho | Creative Capital Premiere | MALI’E’ • TÁTAOTAO | Pier 62, Seattle Waterfront, Seattle, WA | August 21, 2025
• Jesse Krimes | Creative Capital Premiere | Jesse Krimes: Corrections | The Met, New York, NY | Through July 13, 2025
• Wafaa Bilal | Creative Capital Project Premiere | Wafaa Bilal: Indulge Me | MCA Chicago, Chicago | Through October 19, 2025

• Lucy Kim | Pigment Spells | Praise Shadows, Brookline, MA | Through June 27, 2025
• Artemio Rodriguez | Lotería de la Vida (The Daily Gamble) | Davidson Galleries, Seattle, WA | Through June 28, 2025
• Black Quantum Futurism | The Memory Vortex Inn | Performance Space, NYC | Through June 30, 2025
• Cannupa Hanska Luger | Speechless  | Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, NC | Through July 6, 2025
• Lauren Lee McCarthy | Art + Tech Lab – Lauren Lee McCarthy: Auto | LACMA, Los Angeles, CA | July 2, 2025
• Tanya Aguiñiga | Art Wall / Tanya Aguiñiga: Border Fall Height  | BAMPFA | Berkeley, CA | Through July 13, 2025
• Sherrill Roland | The Turning Away From | Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, NY | Through July 31, 2025
• Sanford Biggers, Nick Cave, Edgar Arceneaux | Imagining Black Diasporas: 21st-Century Art and Poetics | LACMA, Los Angeles, CA | Through August 3, 2025
• Jennie C. Jones | Year of Construction | Museum of Contemporary Art, Toronto, Canada | Through August 3, 2025
• Heather Dewey-Hagborg | Making Home: Cooper Hewitt Triennial | Cooper Hewitt Museum, New York, NY | Through August 10, 2025
• Sandy Rodriguez | Currents of Resistance  | The Ringling Museum of Art | Sarasota, FL | Through August 10, 2025
• Sarah Rosalena | Unending Spiral | BLUM Gallery, Los Angeles, CA | Through August 16, 2025
• Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Véréna Paravel | Breathing Matter(s) | silent green, Berlin, Germany | July 18–August 24, 2025
• Garrett Bradley | Revolutions | Eye Filmmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands | Through September 7, 2025
• Jeffrey Gibson | Jeffrey Gibson: the space in which to place me | The Broad, Los Angeles, CA | Through September 28, 2025
• Jennie C. Jones | Ensemble | 2025 Roof Garden Commission | The Metropolitan Museum of Art | Through October 19, 2025
• Carlos Motta | Pleas of Resistance | Museu d’Art Contemporarni de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain | Through October 26, 2025
• Simone Leigh, Will Rawls, Charisse Pearlina Weston | Group exhibition: Once Within a Time: 12th International | Site Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM | June 27, 2025–January 13, 2026
• Juan William Chavez | Art Pollination | Mennello Museum of American Art, Orlando, FL | October 10–January 18, 2026

Performance

• Black Quantum Futurism (Moor Mother, Rasheedah Phillips), Vijay Iyer | Blacktronika Festival in SummerStage 2025, Marcus Garvey Park, New York, NY | August 17, 2025Branden Jacobs-Jenkins | Purpose on Broadway | Helen Hayes Theater, New York, NY | Through July 6, 2025
• Black Quantum Futurism (Moor Mother, Rasheedah Phillips), Vijay Iyer | Blacktronika Festival in SummerStage 2025 | Marcus Garvey Park, New York, NY | August 17, 2025
• Larissa FastHorse |Fancy Dancer | Seattle Rep, Seattle, WA | September 18–November 2, 2025

Film

• Lori Felker | Creative Capital project | Patient | Arts + Literature Laboratory, Madison, WI | July 15, 2025
• Cherien Dabis, Crystal Kayiza, Allison Janae Hamilton, Kevin Jerome Everson, Christopher Harris, Cauleen Smith | Films at Blackstar Film Festival | Philadelphia, PA and Online | July 31–August 3, 2025
• Michèle Stephenson | Mother Suriname and The Changing Same for Afroprop: The Ultimate Cultural Exchange| Streaming on WORLD Channel and PBS 
• Shola Lynch | Number One on the Call Sheet: Black Leading Women in Hollywood | Streaming on Apple TV
• Ramona S. Diaz | And So It Begins | Streaming on Independent Lens (PBS)
• Titus Kaphar | Exhibiting Forgiveness | Streaming on Amazon Prime, Apple TV, YouTube
• Jasmín Mara López | Silent Beauty | Creative Capital project | Streaming on Amazon Prime
• Elaine McMillion Sheldon | King Coal | Creative Capital project | Streaming on PBS Documentaries Amazon Prime
• Cyrus Moussavi, Camae Ayewa and Rasheeda Phillips (Black Quantum Futurism) | Moor Mother:Jazz Codes | Mubi x Chanel Next Prize Collection | Streaming on Mubi

Literature

• Cannupa Hanska Luger | SURVIVA: A Future Ancestral Field Guide | Published by Ayin Press, September 2, 2025
• Brian Harnetty | Noisy Memory: Recording Sound, Performing Archives | The University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, NC | August 1, 2025