having your own space =afrofuturism, futuristic, not on earth,

anti blackness is a global issue and to escapee’s it we have to leave the planet.

 

reimagining black people in cultural art, Countee Cullen poem(“Yet Do I Marvel” by Countee Cullen); insets the black experience with classical references, similar to how the artists relied on classical art to reimagine New Negro future.https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/42611/yet-do-i-marvel

the dress from Futuristic Room is made from “modest materials, paper, and clay; celebrating the creative and radical aspects of the black imagination. both insists on making a way out of no way”(Met Description).

In House discussion; issues involving race but do not include people who are not black in the conversation; i.e colorism, relationships between black men and women; creating space for ourselves. Designing our own future without input from anyone else.

house is past/present, depicting what could’ve been if we were emancipated a long time ago without limitations.

 

 

Fictions of Emancipation

art created during the time of abolition which was unimaginable.

black people were depicted in a classical art style

this depiction of black people in the classical art style was a form of reclaiming their image as an emancipated individual.