This exhibition highlights a defining aspect of Babirye’s artistic practice: sculptures that incorporate the visual traits of African masks, merging the traditional with the contemporary. Babirye crafts with metal, ceramics, and hand-carved wood, adding rubber, nails, and other found objects to create contrasting textures. While rooted in the ruling kingdoms of present-day Uganda, Babirye’s artwork goes beyond historical representation. Instead, it weaves personal history and resilience into ambitious sculptures that create space for queer joy and liberation. Emerging from the artist’s own experiences of struggle, Babirye’s art transcends the personal. Through her experiments with form and materials, she is able to convey powerful emotions, provoke thought, and push the boundaries of creative expression.

"Since early childhood Corinne Smith, who also goes by Critty Smitty, has been sensitive to the unknown. Suffering from night terrors, sleep paralysis and, sometimes, a strange difficulty in distinguishing between what is real and what isn’t, Smith is of the notion that maybe it all lies somewhere in between. With the use of Silene Capensis root, also known as the African dream root, the Oakland-based artist has been practicing guided meditation and dream re-entry to access powerful dreams that provide knowledge and symbolism to establish further connection to the divine ancestral lineage and to promote healing. ‍"

"Amy Sherald: American Sublime" marks the artist's first mid-career survey, offering an extensive exploration of her work from 2007 to the present. The exhibition is organized thematically, with each gallery presenting a crucial idea in her work and explaining her detailed approach to making paintings. Highlights include her celebrated portraits of Michelle Obama and Breonna Taylor and new works debuting for the first time. Sherald's art invites viewers to engage with themes of identity, representation, and the nuanced experiences of Black Americans, positioning her within the lineage of great American artists who redefine cultural narratives.

Tau Lewis’s works channel ancestral memory and advocate for collective healing through labor-intensive artistry. Her sculptural practice weaves together recycled textiles, quilted and dyed fabrics, leather, and found objects to create immersive, layered forms steeped in ancestral resonance and environmental consciousness. Each piece—such as Opus (The Ovule) from the imagined world of T.A.U.B.I.S—fuses the human, botanical, and spiritual within richly textured, gender-fluid structures. Through her meticulous craftsmanship, Lewis channels African diasporic practices of material reuse while envisioning utopian futures of love, healing, and justice. Her installations evoke lineages of Black storytellers and cultural makers, animating space with embodied narratives that transcend traditional sculpture.