Black Tomorrow
Art, Design, Imagination

Dario Calmese, an artist, design theorist, and image-maker working across the architectures of perception — how power, myth, and technology organize collective reality, and how memory shapes what a civilization becomes. He is the founder of the Institute of Black Imagination, a civilizational R&D lab prototyping new operating systems for human life through archives, media, public space, and education.

Ekene Ijeoma, MIT professor of Media Arts and Sciences, whose practice investigates how social and political systems shape lived experience. Through large-scale, participatory installations, sculptures, performances, and digital platforms, Ijeoma creates poetic, data-driven works that expose inequality and invite collective action.

Sablā Stays, a multidisciplinary designer and art director based in New York City. Creating from a space of cultural connectivity, Sablā’s meditative approach to design channels the multidimensionality of collective experience through image and form.

Larry Ossei-Mensah, a Ghanaian-American curator and cultural critic who uses contemporary art as a vehicle to redefine how we see ourselves and the world around us. His work spans exhibitions and programs across global institutions, featuring artists such as Firelei Báez, Allison Janae Hamilton, Brendan Fernandes, Ebony G. Patterson, Modou Dieng, Glenn Kaino, Joiri Minaya, and Stanley Whitney.

Jon Key, artist, designer, writer of the book Black, Queer, & Untold: A New Archive of Designers, Artists, & Trailblazers and Co-Founder and Design Director at Codify Art, a multidisciplinary collective dedicated to creating, producing, supporting, and showcasing work by artists of color, particularly women, queer, and trans artists of color.