The Fabric of Black Imaginings

The Fabric of Black Imaginings is a multidisciplinary visual art project that expands my digital painting practice into fabric-based works, installation, and community centered exhibition programming. Using found family photographs, archival imagery, VHS stills, and digitally manipulated compositions, the work explores how Black memory, movement, ritual, and imagination function as forms of cultural preservation, resistance, and healing.

Rooted in oral histories, Black social culture, and movement traditions, this project investigates how dance and embodied practices carry memory across generations and create space for connection, reflection, and transcendence. The work builds upon my ongoing exploration of nostalgia, distorted memory, and portraiture while translating these themes into large scale textile and printed works that hold both personal and collective histories.

This campaign arrives at an important stage in the project’s development and will help bring the work into a public facing exhibition experience. Contributions will directly support fabric and printing materials, exhibition production, installation costs, venue support, video and photo documentation, marketing, and community programming connected to the exhibition. The digital works already created for this project will serve as the visual foundation for the final installations and immersive environment.

Alongside the exhibition, I plan to organize public programs that encourage deeper engagement with the themes of memory, imagination, movement, and collective care through conversation, reflection, and creative participation.

By supporting The Fabric of Black Imaginings, donors are not only helping fund a new body of work, but also contributing to a broader ecosystem of Black cultural preservation, community centered art making, and imaginative futures within Chicago and beyond.