Mahogany Gallery Features Show at Wustum Art Museum

Gary Gee
Third-Eye Zulu, 2019
Glazed earthenware on wooden and velvet stand
18 x 11 x 9 inches
Courtesy of the Artist
Photography Courtesy of the Artist

Mahogany Gallery invites visual artists who identify as Black or of the African diaspora, to submit work that connects to the theme of Black Futures.

Black Futures 2 is an art show that is a continuation of Black Futures 1, which debuted at the Wisconsin Black Art & Culture Expo in February 2023 at Mahogany Gallery. Black cultures around the world. The presence of humanity will change, what does this look like? What would this change feel like? How does our histories influence Black Futures 2? Where do we go from here as a culture, as a movement , as a people?

Black Futures explores these themes of Blackness of the future.

We accept all 2D mediums from artists at any stage in their careers. Some 3D mediums will be accepted, however physical size is restricted. The work is selected from the submitted work samples, so please make sure that the work is available for exhibition and ready to be displayed professionally.

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Artwork can be used to revisit the past and document and comment on the present but it can also be used to envision the future. As Racine Art Museum celebrates its 20th anniversary in 2023, considerations of the past are inevitable but there are also opportunities to think about what comes next. For the 2023 community-focused exhibition, RAM’s Wustum Museum invites artists to share their ideas about what a potential future—realistic or fantastical, possible or impossible—could look like.

This exhibition is organized with Scott Terry of Mahogany Gallery in Racine and is inspired by the theme of Mahogany Gallery’s 2nd Annual Wisconsin Black Art and Culture Expo, Black Futures. As a part of Futures Reimagined, Terry will be inviting artists to participate in the next iteration of the Expo theme, Black Futures II.