Patrick Chuka, Patience "Ndidi", 2023, Drawing, Ballpoint Pen on Paper

Sovern LA

February 26, 2026 – May 7, 2026

sacred asks: what happens when Black folks claim themselves as set apart, worthy of reverence, amid the weight of generational trauma and white-body supremacy? Through art that alchemizes grief, centers rest, and celebrates creativity as resistance, this exhibition builds a sanctuary for the kind of resilience that honors our bodies, histories, and soul’s work. Reclaiming the sacred within becomes the protest—steadying our foundation through embodied wisdom rather than fear.

Kandy G. Lopez, Las Dos Kandys , 2024, yarn and paint on hook mesh

Angel’s Gate Cultural Center

January 25, 2025 – March 29, 2025

Black in Place holds space for invocation, re-memory, and unbridled Black expression. Countering erasure, this exhibition interrogates the living contradictions of existing while Black, invoking ancestral and indigenous wisdom to explore how Black artists cultivate dreaming through making. 

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