Howard University Gallery of Art

October 27, 2025 - May 15, 2026

The “Africana Americanxs In Transit Across the Black Kairibe” features over 40 works of art and films from the Howard University Gallery of Art Collection and contemporary African Caribbean diaspora artists. The curatorial project presents a continental history of Black diaspora subjectivity in the legacy of Howard University professor, philosopher, scholar, and cultural activist Dr. Alain L. Locke and the artistic representation of the Black Caribbean as visual culture for ancestral connectivity and Global Africa futurity.

Artists included are Lois Mailou Jones, Romare Bearden, William Edouard Scott, Elizabeth Catlett, Eldzier Cortor, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Wifrido Lam, Norman Lewis, Keith Morrison, Petion Savain, Richmond Barthé, Teodoro Ramos Blanco, Augusta Sauvage, Coco Fusco, Tomas Allen Harris, Billy Gerard Frank, Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz, Harmonia Rosales, Pau Mar, and Sergio Sanchez Santamaria.

“Africana Americanxs In Transit Across the Black Kairibe” is organized by Howard University Gallery of Art and the Chadwick A. Boseman College of Fine Arts.