External Coverage
“Public space is not neutral.” — Afatasi
I’m honored to be featured in The San Francisco Examiner in an article by art critic Max Blue examining the San Francisco Arts Commission’s Shaping Legacy initiative. The…
Exhibition
Women of Afrofuturism at SFO
Afatasi was part of the Black Space residency at Minnesota Street Project in San Francisco. In early 2023, Ashara Ekundayo contacted her to let her know that Nicole…
Fine Arts for Reparations
The Memory Portal Project
A monument methodology for preserving lineage through public art. THE MEMORY PORTAL PROJECT The Memory Portal Project is an evolving monument methodology created by Afatasi that reimagines how…
Fine Arts for Reparations
The Through-Line
Nothing I have done with AR is random, and I want to be direct about the progression: In 2023, I embedded reparations education into a cultural object people…
External Coverage
Public Space as Corrective
2026 Now we are here, and what I am building has become very clear to me. Through the Shaping Legacy Project — a multi-year initiative funded by the…
Fine Arts for Reparations
The Stele
By 2025 I was no longer interested in keeping AR as something you hold. I moved it into sculpture. AR Stele Prototype 1 came out of my thinking…
Fine Arts for Reparations
The Church Fan
In 2023, I dedicated the entire Futurism Fashion Experience to the movement for reparations. Not loosely. Not aesthetically. Directly and intentionally, with people in the room actively doing…
Fine Arts for Reparations
How I Learned to Put Truth Where It Was Denied
There is a question that has been living inside my practice for a long time, and I want to name it directly: How do we tell the truth…
Fine Arts for Reparations
Bricks in the sidewalk
Afatasi examines the inadequacy of public monuments in the Fillmore, where small bricks in the sidewalk are used to commemorate the people and businesses that built Harlem of…
Artistic House
Reliquary Afatasi
Artistic House Established: 2025 Reliquary Afatasi is the Artistic House through which Afatasi creates and stewards her welded sculptural works. Centered within a private reliquary at San Francisco’s…