Nexus: SF/Bay Area Black Art Week Returns For Its Third Year

The Bay Area’s Black art community will receive a regional showcase this fall when the Museum of the African Diaspora presents the third year of Nexus: SF/Bay Area Black Art Week . Beginning September 30, the five-day event will bring museums, galleries and independent artists into a shared program devoted to Black visual art. Nexus reaches several parts of the Bay Area, with events planned in San Francisco, Oakland and the Marin Headlands. For MoAD Executive Director Monetta White, its growth reflects a history extending well beyond the annual event. “The third edition of Nexus demonstrates how it’s grown into something more profound than any single exhibition, program, or artistic genre,” she says. “Nexus is a celebration that embraces collective creativity emerging from the same unified spirit, and all in the same week. This energy stems from generations of local Black artists, galleries, institutions, and thought-leaders who built this culture here in the Bay Area, and their contributions laid the ground for what Black creativity means today.” MoAD will begin the week with Dewey Crumpler: Sonic Lineages , the San Francisco artist’s first institutional solo exhibition in the city. The museum will also debut After the Island: Ornament and Ceramic Practice in the Jamaican Diaspora , developed with Toronto’s Gardiner Museum. Dorian Reid will open Black Cat Revolution as part of MoAD’s Emerging Artist Program. Nexus will extend outside traditional exhibition spaces. The …