About Afatasi

A welder and metal sculptor, Afatasi is also a self-taught seamstress, fashion and textile designer, mixed-media conceptual artist, and counterstory teller. As a native San Franciscan, her work is influenced by a deep concern for the continued population decline of Black-Americans in her hometown over the course of her lifetime.

Questioning why the Black community is the only dwindling demographic in the city she asks - “If Past injustices have shaped present-day realities, what does this mean for our futures?”