A Group Exhibition
Rooted in Time: Africa’s Past, Present & Future explores the temporal and spatial notions of Transatlantic African identity, heritage, culture, and history. This exhibition brings together artists of African descent working across painting, sculpture, photography, installation, and mixed-media works to challenge linear understandings of time and identity shaped by colonial frameworks. These artists engage the cyclical nature of cultural inheritance, foregrounding how time, space, memory, and embodied knowledge shape evolving forms of oral history, storytelling traditions, ancestral practices, spiritual systems, material culture, and afro-futurist imaginations. This group exhibition is a temporal intervention, documenting how artists engage cultural memory to reframe African Diasporic identity and experience, and exploring time as a fluid technology–one that roots and cycles ancestral legacies & memory into contemporary culture. Rooted in Time: Africa’s Past, Present & Future invites us to reflect, reckon, and re-envision; to activate our collective imagination toward liberated and self-determined futures. How do we carry our past forward? How is culture reshaped in motion? And what futures become possible when we root ourselves fully in the remembrance of who we are? Rooted in Time: Africa’s Past, Present & Future is curated and presented for the WAZOBIA Arts and Culture Festival, organized by Khateeta Emerson, held at City Springs Elementary/Middle School on May 10, 2025, from 1 PM to 5 PM.
Brian Suryah @suryahstudio
Chukwudumebi “Chuks” Amadi-Emina @artbychuks
Erasto Matthews @ErastoArts
Joseph Williams @melku_tafari
Leon Willis @_leewill
Marglucy Omwega www.zawadi.me
Robert Stephenson @1_just_ro
Temi Wynston Edun @wynstonedunart
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Curator: VILLAGER (Abdulrasheed Adekunle Adaranijo)
@vllager.me \ www.vllager.com
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City Springs Elementary Middle School
Please be sure to delivery your artwork one day prior to the event.
City Springs Elementary Middle School
City Springs Elementary / Middle School, 100 S. Caroline St., Baltimore, MD 21231
City Springs Elementary / Middle School, 100 S. Caroline St., Baltimore, MD 21231
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