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Ritual and Resistance
TNT Art Lab
Corner of Turk and Taylor, San Francisco, CA 94102
October 5, 2025-

Courage is included in Ritual and Resistance, the inauguaral activation at TNT Art Lab, a new arts hub for social practice art in San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood. Ritual and Resistance features six visionary artists exploring healing, memory, and resistance through performance, video, installation, and participatory practice.

Artists Included: Nanci Amaka, Mary WD Graham, Helina Metaferia, Trina Michelle Robinson, Jasmine Narkita Wiley, and Lava Thomas.

Continuum: MoAD Over Time
Museum of the African Diaspora
685 Mission St (at 3rd), San Francisco, CA 94105
October 1, 2025- March 1, 2026

Addie J. Hamerter is included in Continuum: MoAD Over Time. This landmark exhibition marks the 20th anniversary of the Museum of the African Diaspora. More than a retrospective, Continuum introduces MoAD’s next frontier, showing how the museum has been both foundational to the Bay Area’s cultural landscape and an increasingly vital global venue for art of the African Diaspora. ‍Organized thematically and chronologically, Continuum moves through key eras and ideas in the museum’s evolution, tracing a living timeline from its founding to the present and into the future. Visitors will encounter foundational figures, pivotal exhibitions, program milestones, innovations, and visionary leadership moments. This show is designed to celebrate memory, spark reflection, and invite participation.

Artists in this Exhibition: Cheryl Patrice Derricotte, Chester Higgins Jr., JoeSam., Richard Mayhew, Ramekon O’Arwisters, Gordon Parks, Lava Thomas, and Sam Vernon

*Harriet Tubman*, 2020. Graphite and Conté pencil on paper. 62 1/2” x 46 1/4”

'Free as they want to be’: Artists Committed to Memory
Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University
114 Central Avenue, Ithaca, NY 14853
September 6 – December 7 2025

Harriet Tubman (2020) is included in the group exhibition 'Free as they want to be': Artists Committed to Memory, that is on view at The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University. The exhibition considers the historic and contemporary role photography and film have played in remembering legacies of slavery and its aftermath. The catalogue can be purchased here and includes 20 artists working in photography, video, silkscreen, projection, and mixed media installation.

The exhibition is curated by Deborah Willis, Ph.D., Professor and Chair of the Department of Photography & Imaging at NYU's Tisch School of Arts, and Cheryl Finley, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Art History at Cornell University.

*Resistance Reverb: Movements 1 & 2*, 2018. Photo: Tom Fox, *The Dallas Morning News.*

Resistance and Reverb: Movements 1 & 2
HALL Arts Hotel
1717 Leonard St., Dallas, TX 75201

Resistance and Reverb: Movements 1 & 2 (2018) is currently on view and permanently installed at HALL Arts Hotel in Dallas, Texas. The immersive installation features over 600 tambourines whose pink surfaces evoke the Women’s Marches of January 2017 and moments of feminist activism from the 1980s and 1990s. Dispersed within the cloud of tambourines are fragments of political speeches excerpted from past and present voices of women's resistance–ranging from Sojourner Truth's 1851 speech, "Ain't I a Woman," to Alicia Garza's powerfully succinct message, "Black Lives Matter.” The installation fuses historic and contemporary expressions of activism into a unified statement of solidarity, resilience, and resistance. The distinct elements of the installation represent a multiplicity united in solidarity, yet still retaining individual agency: power placed directly in the hands of the people.

*Euretta F. Adair,* 2018, part of the series *Mugshot Portraits: Women of the Montgomery Bus Boycott.* Graphite and Conté pencil on paper, 47x33.25 in.

Reckoning: Protest. Defiance. Resilience.
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture
1400 Constitution Ave, NW, Washington, D.C. 20560
September 10, 2021 – Ongoing

Euretta F. Adair is included as part of an ongoing exhibition at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture. Reckoning: Protest. Defiance. Resilience tells stories of injustice, resistance and courage—and looks at the ways in which visual art has long provided its own protest, commentary, escape and perspective for African Americans.

Learn more about the exhibition here.