Africana Americanxs In Transit Across the Black Kairibe
Howard University Gallery of Art
October 27, 2025 - May 15, 2026
The Africana Americanxs In Transit exhibition features over 40 works of art and films from the Howard University Gallery of Art Collection and contemporary African Caribbean diaspora artists.
The exhibit interrogates five major themes at the axis of a multidirectional path that intersect historical socio-political and artistic movements as seen in the lives of African Americans, Afro Caribbeans, and US Africana Caribbean Latinxs, such as: Tracing Ancestral Memories, Africana Kairibe Imaginaries, Multidirectional Black Geometries, The Sacred East, and Africana Karibe Diaspora.
This 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.
Tracing Ancestral Memories
(Howard University Gallery of Art’s Collection)
- • Romare Bearden, American, 1911 – 1988
- • Elizabeth Catlett Mora, American-Mexican, 1915 – 2012
- • Eldzier Cortor, American, 1916 - 2015
- • Barkley Hendricks, American, 1945 – 2017
- • Lois Mailou Jones, American, 1905 – 1998
- • Jacob Lawrence, American, 1917 – 2000
- • William Edouard Scott, American, 1884 -1964
- • James A. Porter, American, 1905 – 1970
- • Ellis Wilson, American, 1900 – 1977
- • Charles White, American, 1918 - 1979
Africana Kairibe Imaginaries
(Howard University Gallery of Art’s Collection)
- • Jean-Michel Basquiat, American (Puerto Rican and Haitian), 1960 – 1988
- • Frank Bowling, British / Guyanese born 1936
- • Ernest Crichlow, American (Barbadian), 1914 - 2005
- • Carmelo González, Cuban, 1920 - 1990
- • Wifrido Lam, Cuban, 1902 – 1982
- • Norman Lewis, American (Bermudian), 1909 – 1979
- • Keith Morrison, American / Jamaican, born 1942
- • George Remponeau, Haitian, 1916 – 2012
- • Mallica "Kapo" Reynolds, Jamaican, 1911 - 1989
- • Petion Savain, Haitian, 1906 - 1973
Multidirectional Black Geometrie
(Howard University Gallery of Art’s Collection)
- • Richmond Barthé, American, 1901 – 1989
- • Elizabeth Catlett Mora, American-Mexican, 1915 – 2012
- • Teodoro Ramos Blanco, Cuban, 1902 – 1972
- • Agusta Sauvage, American, 1892 – 1962
The Sacred East
(Howard University Gallery of Art’s African Art Collection
- • Elephant Mask, Yaka
- • Shango Devotee Kneeling Female Figure, Yoruba
- • Male and Female Ibeji Statues, Yoruba
- • Nkisi Figure, Congo
Africana Karibe Diaspora
(Contemporary Afro Caribbean Diaspora Artists)
- • Baltazar Castellano Mello, Afro-Mexicano, b. 1983
- • Billy Gerard Frank, Grenadian American b. 1970
- • Coco Fusco, Cuban American, b. 1960
- • Tomas Allen Harris, African American, b. 1962
- • Isaac Julien, British b. 1960
- • Pau Mar, Cuban/Lives in Barcelona, Spain, b. 1963
- • Raziel Perin, Afro Dominican Italian, b. 1992
- • Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz, Puerto Rican American, b. 1973
- • Harmonia Rosales, Afro Cuban American, b. 1984
- • Sergio Sanchez Santamaria, Afro Mexican, b. 1976
