Emily, Arianna, Sable, Brenika 

MEETING BEYONCE AT THE MET AND MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. IN A CUP

The Afrofuturism room displays African diasporic culture, reconciling it with a variety of eras from Victorian to modern to futuristic. Cultural Black figures such as Beyonce, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Zora Neale Hurston are prominently featured on plates and cups and other household items. By featuring these items in a house, these items of Blackness take on a more personal and intimate feel. It should be noted that the house is placed in a very constricted spot in the museum, symbolizing how Blackness is often confined by European colonizers and their definitions of cultural validity. However, despite the small space, the house is filled with indicators of wealth. The bodice dress, crystal case and fine china display a house of wealth, symbolizing that future Black households have and always will be places of cultural and monetary wealth.