Ashara Ekundayo Gallery

04/24/2026

This curator Ashara Ekundayo this Friday at SFO for a roundtable discussion about Black feminist art, featuring Saar and fellow artists Adia Millett, Eve Sandler and the duo Taller SANAA.

Ashara Ekundayo will lead a discussion with Alison Saar and other artists in the airport's museum, and anyone can attend.

03/24/2026

TONITE! Excited to sit for a spell and wax poetic on land, blackness, and the blues with Artist/educator gbadebo

https://www.ccsdetroit.edu/ccs-event/woodward-lecture-series-adebunmi-gbadebo-ashara-ekundayo/

11/17/2025

A full New York weekend traversing these streets and my thoughts on worldbuilding, Care, collective liberation, Black art, and family. Peace and love to the Visionaries, Do-ers, Master Teachers, Growers, Soul Singers and Babies living inside an embodied and in between space where heart and mind come together.

No notes. All Praise. Free 🍉

11/09/2025

A year ago this very week I traveled to for the very 1st time with a small group of Black women independent curators and artists to touch the land, be inspired, re-member, and witness history in the making with a sneak-peek at the building of an institution deemed in the historic

- Since that initial visit I also held a 30 day summer curatorial research residency at w/ in search of the and being in good dialogue and laughter with a myriad of scholars, archivists, students and artisans including the cohort at , the Institute for Benin Studies, ANT, the National Museum of Benin and other sites of memory.

This week I’m deeply honored to be invited to return to the land for the grand opening ceremonies of the largest museum in West Africa and hold space with some of those same Black women and our extended family of Thinkers, Practitioners, Conservationists and Archivists also committed to truth, liberation, beauty and legacy. Congratulations and simultaneous love and Congratulations to our NYC Kin re-opening my favorite US museum

12/02/2024

GARDEN CITY, NY, Frontline Prophet: James Baldwin; works by curated by

The Center for African, Black and Caribbean Studies at is excited to present Frontline Prophet: James Baldwin, a traveling art exhibition by artist/activist Sabrina Nelson as part of The Fire This Time: A James Baldwin Centennial Celebration. Curated by Ashara Ekundayo and organized at Adelphi University by Chief Curator Jonathan Duff, this powerful exhibition honors the enduring legacy of James Baldwin through Nelson’s compelling artwork.

The exhibition features an augmented reality component on many of the artworks, activated by the Oakland-based collective Through a bespoke downloadable app, visitors will see and hear Baldwin and his contemporaries discuss politics, family, and culture, enhancing the viewer’s experience and engagement with the pieces.

This special exhibition is a condensed capsule iteration of the primary exhibition which was recently featured at the American University in Paris, France as part of the official James Baldwin Centennial Festival presented by La Maison Baldwin in October. The full exhibition of Frontline Prophet: James Baldwin is currently on display at the in Detroit through February 28, 2025. The fall edition at Adelphi University will focus exclusively on Sabrina Nelson’s prints, while the spring 2025 iteration will feature a broader selection of Nelson’s work, including original paintings and digital pieces.

The exhibit will be on view in the Swirbul Library Gallery from November 18, 2024, through December 19, 2024. It will return in spring 2025 during Black History Month, to the Art Gallery in the Ruth S.
Harley University Center from January 27 to February 28, 2025. Both exhibitions are free and open to the public.

Additionally, an artist talk-back and reception will take place on February 3, 2025, from 4:00 PM to6:00 PM in the Ruth S. Harley University Center, hosted by the Center for African, Black, and Caribbean Studies.

10/24/2024

Join us for a powerful panel discussion that examines the intersectionality of Blackness through the lens of James Baldwin’s life and legacy, and how his words and actions continue to inspire and shape contemporary artistic practices.

A panel of four distinguished Detroit-native Black women creatives: Sabrina Nelson, Ashara Ekundayo, and Omo Misha + Lauren Hood, moderator, will bring their unique perspective and artistic expression to the table.

Through Baldwin’s Eyes: Artistic Explorations of Blackness and Identity

Tuesday, October 29th at 6:30 pm | Doors Open at 6! FREE and Open to the Public

Speakers:
has been a professional interdisciplinary artist for over 37 years, exhibiting throughout the Midwest and in Florida, New York, Louisiana, California, and Paris, France. She works in a variety of media and styles – from painting, drawing and sculpture, to art instillations, performances, and more. Nelson is also an educator, lecturer, and ‘artivist.’

is a Black feminist interdisciplinary independent curator, visual maker, cultural theologian, arts organizer, and consultant whose creative practice is rooted in joy-informed pedagogies and the study and creation of Black archives, site-responsive ceremony, and artist-based strategies. She is Founder and Lead Steward at
misha has served numerous New York institutions including the United Nations, CHRISTIE’S and City College Center for the Arts, while operating Detroit’s . Her practice focuses on the development of emerging talent and strengthening creative communities between Detroit and Harlem.
a.hood the Founder and Chief Visionary of the Institute for AfroUrbanism (IAU). The IAU is a think tank and action lab working at the intersection of human actualization and urban transformation. The institute’s research and programming seeks to understand the social, spatial, spiritual and economic conditions necessary in order for Black folks to thrive in cities.

10/05/2024

As we have stepped through the portal of a new season, into a place of eclipses and rare star scapes, and new Suns, we have aligned our creative hearts and minds divinely. Give Thanks.

Enter:
Black (W)hole: A Black Feminist Art Happening is an organic convergence of Black feminist energy, aesthetics, memory, and practice in the San Francisco Bay Area.

This convergence brings together a powerful constellation of Black feminist artists, writers, thinkers, and cultural workers whose work is concerned with questions of black futurity, black femme embodiment and subjectivity, history and the archive, Black feminist epistemologies, the Earth, the sacred, and the work of sustaining ancestral memory.

OCTOBER 15-19, 2024
Palo Alto, Berkeley,
San Francisco, and Oakland

EACH EVENT has its own RSVP!
Info at www.BlackWhole.art

Spell Casters:
Ashara Ekundayo
Courtney Desiree Morris
Alexis Pauline Gumbs
amara tabor-smith
Alisha B. Wormsley
Sydney Cain aka sage stargate
Ayana Omilade Flewellen
Savannah Shange
DJ Lynnée Denise
Kerby Lynch
Aubrey Pandori & Roberto Martinez
Sam McGinnis

Convening Partners





University of California-Berkeley

08/28/2024

JOIN US AT 1:00pm PDT

Dough: A Public Forum on Fiscal Sponsorship & Accountability.

There is still time to Register!

I will be joined by Angela Wellman, PhD (AAFR Advisory Board Member), Sensiper PhD (Former MFEI Fiscal Sponsee), Ono (Program Director, Hewlett Foundation) and our lawyer Brooke Oliver (Senior Council at Procopio Law)

Date: August 28, 2024
Time: 1pm - 2pm PDT
Where: Virtual - Zoom Webinar
Registration:

For many independent artists and emerging organizations, fiscal sponsorship is the key to sustainability and a thriving practice. Without fiscal sponsorship, we cannot receive the critical funding that allows us to create our work and have impact. But what happens when your fiscal sponsor abandons t...