Fine Arts for Reparations
The Memory Portal Project
2026 Everything I have been building leads to this. The Memory Portal Project is a nationwide monument initiative addressing the absence of public memorials for communities whose histories…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Chasing Dreams @ African American Arts and Culture Complex
Exhibition
This work was shown in a Juneteenth exhibition in the Fillmore at the AAACC, curated by the artist K-Dub. It was the first time I exhibited this sculpture.…
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48 Pillars at ARC Gallery
Exhibition
Artists were asked to create two panels, each measuring 1 by 4 feet. My panels are titled The Gates of Io. The work imagines a futuristic set of…
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Futurism Fashion Experience 2022
For FFE 2022, I created the event in response to the lack of Black History Month programming and the need to build new rituals for our community in…