Dive Deeper: Insights from the Museum of the Future

Our curated blog posts invite you to journey with us, delving into our exhibitions, events, and the gifted artists who are shaping the art narrative of the Global African Diaspora.

This Unique Art Exhibit Is Using Technology To Highlight Black Life, Identity Across The Diaspora

“To understand the complexities of Black life today is to grasp in many ways how the world operates. Black life brings to the fore what the African-American thinker W. E. Du Bois once called a ‘second sight’ into this world,” said Anthony Bogues, Ph.D., Curator and inaugural Director of the Ruth J. Simmons Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice at Brown University, in a release shared with ESSENCE. “Each of the artists presented in this documentary and virtual exhibition engages with the world in unique ways. Their art tells us something specific and yet common about the world we live in,” he states.‍

Weekly Artist Feature | Isaac Julien CBE

Isaac Julien CBE is a visionary British filmmaker and installation artist whose powerful works blend cinema, choreography, and archival imagery to confront colonial legacies, Black identity, and social justice. Through richly layered visual storytelling, Julien transforms art into a space of resistance, remembrance, and radical possibility.

Weekly Artist Feature | Isaac Julien CBE

Isaac Julien CBE is a visionary British filmmaker and installation artist whose powerful works blend cinema, choreography, and archival imagery to confront colonial legacies, Black identity, and social justice. Through richly layered visual storytelling, Julien transforms art into a space of resistance, remembrance, and radical possibility.

Weekly Artist Feature | Firelei Báez

Firelei Báez is a Dominican-American artist whose lush, intricate paintings breathe new life into historical narratives. Drawing from Caribbean folklore, Black feminist theory, and colonial archives, Báez creates worlds where mythology and memory collide—centering diasporic identities and reconfiguring the past through a radical, transformative lens.

Weekly Artist Feature | Firelei Báez

Firelei Báez is a Dominican-American artist whose lush, intricate paintings breathe new life into historical narratives. Drawing from Caribbean folklore, Black feminist theory, and colonial archives, Báez creates worlds where mythology and memory collide—centering diasporic identities and reconfiguring the past through a radical, transformative lens.

Weekly Artist Feature | Carlos Martiel

Carlos Martiel is a bold Afro-Cuban performance artist whose visceral, body-centered works confront systems of power, colonialism, and racial injustice. Using his own body as a medium, Martiel stages powerful acts of endurance that expose political and social violence—transforming pain into protest and the personal into the political.

Weekly Artist Feature | Carlos Martiel

Carlos Martiel is a bold Afro-Cuban performance artist whose visceral, body-centered works confront systems of power, colonialism, and racial injustice. Using his own body as a medium, Martiel stages powerful acts of endurance that expose political and social violence—transforming pain into protest and the personal into the political.

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