01/28/2023
Beautiful images.
“Combining exceptional artistic talent with technology and sociology, McArthur Freeman II and Elizabeth Hordge-Freeman have created a panoply of Afrofuturistic images that propel us past the challenges, injuries and pain entangling us today, enabling us to craft and experience new realities that are more expansive, beautiful, and just,” said Beth Gelman, Creative Pinellas Senior Director of Arts and Cultural
Programming. “This is the power of art. Art can open minds to new ideas and ways of thinking which have the potential to truly transform our community and world for the better.”
Join us for an opening reception and artist talk for the IMAGINE BLACKNESS: ALTERNATE REALITIES AND COLLECTIVE DREAMING exhibition THIS SATURDAY, January 28 from 2-4 PM.
IMAGINE BLACKNESS ia collaborative exploration of Blackness and Black representation through AI-generated images created by artist, McArthur Freeman II, and sociologist, Elizabeth Hordge-Freeman.
This exhibition invites viewers to engage in the act of collective dreaming as a social intervention, which moves beyond the reality of the present world to (re)-imagine and discover new ways of seeing and being. Inspired by Black speculative fiction and Afro-Futurism, the project offers viewers interactive opportunities to question, inspire, and escape by engaging the viewers’ own imaginations in the co-construction of the future and alternate worlds.
https://creativepinellas.org/event/imagine-blackness/
