Exhibiting Artists 

Morvarid Alavifard - Barbara Majek - Farvash - Apex Zero - Siobhan Wallace - Bea Xu - Ofi Davis - Natasha Fontenelle - Sylver Eulalee Mair - Maryam Fahim - Barbara Yixuan Wei - Emily Moore - Gabriel Hutchings - Taisha Carrington - Mairi Millar - Ayesha Sureya - Zhanna Assanova - Kassandra Lauren Gordon - Jaz Morrison Alaa Abo ElGoud - Amira Ayad - Fleuri La Belle Ngapy & Sara Hammami

As part of the global community of BIPOC artists, we brought together makers and thinkers whose work had planted roots in African, Asian, Indigenous, Queer, and transcultural futurism.

The mothership arrived on the eve of New York City Jewelry Week as our expansive multidisciplinary exhibition event, ‘Earthseed.’ Fluidly exploring metaphysical identity, astronomy, cosmology, mysticism, science fiction, and magic, we viewed ‘Earthseed’ as an ode to Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower. With a decolonial lens that considered both evolutionary ecology and ancestral wisdom, we explored new hybrid identities and forms of being. We drew on science-fiction narratives and reinvented old dialogues with their racial and heteronormative biases.

‘Earthseed’ was an opportunity for cross-cultural exchange of skills, knowledge, and connection. We needed to engage in authentic dialogue to address the issues of our changing world. Here, we decided on the future of our generation and explored ways in which we, as Black, Indigenous People of the global south, could share in the richness of our legacies to thrive.

While this event was part of NYC Jewelry Week, as disruptors in institutional spaces, we encouraged artists who worked in media beyond jewelry, including 2-D, 3-D, moving image, digital media, sound, performance, writing, and more.

Curated by Ashley Khirea Wahba, David Lisbon and Roxanne Simone