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Team

folaṣade ade

CAS Curator
folasade@publicspaceone.com

folaṣade (b. 1992) is a blackqueer neuro/quirky poet, curator, and organizer concerned with the immediate survival and ongoing liberation of people of the global majority. intuitively guided by her ancestors, folaṣade nurtures a reverence for indigeneity and the erotic within her slow moving body. she has self-published three poetry chapbooks, plus her most recent poetry zine titled the river is a memory (Moody, 2025). her first solo-curated exhibition as i lay changing opened in January 2026, adding to her growing body of co-curated exhibitions and film programs.

folaṣade has additionally published writing with Saint Paul Almanac, Blue Earth Review, The Kitchen, Hair+Nails and MN Women’s Press, and has additional essays, poems, and musings on her substack water of fire. folaṣade was born and raised on ohlone + muwekma lands, currently living on anishinaabe lands with her cat parsley.

Anaïs Duplan

CAS Founding Curator
cas@publicspaceone.com

Anaïs Duplan is a trans* poet, curator, and artist. He is the author of a forthcoming book of essays, Blackspace: On the Poetics of an Afrofuture (Black Ocean, 2020), a full-length poetry collection, Take This Stallion (Brooklyn Arts Press, 2016), and a chapbook, Mount Carmel and the Blood of Parnassus (Monster House Press, 2017). His writing has been published by Hyperallergic, PBS News Hour, the Academy of American Poets, Poetry Society of America, and the Bettering American Poetry anthology.

Duplan is the founding curator for the Center for Afrofuturist Studies, an artist residency program for artists of color, based in Iowa City. As an independent curator, he has facilitated artist projects in Chicago, Boston, Santa Fe, and Reykjavík. Duplan’s video and performance work has been shown at Flux Factory, Daata Editions, the 13th Baltic Triennial in Lithuania, Mathew Gallery, NeueHouse, the Paseo Project, and will be exhibited at the Institute of Contemporary Art in L.A in 2020. He was a 2017-2019 joint Public Programs Fellow at the Museum of Modern Art and the Studio Museum in Harlem. He now works as Program Manager at Recess.

Dellyssa Edinboro

CAS Co-Curator
cas@publicspaceone.com

Dellyssa Edinboro (she/her/hers) is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Cultural and Ethnic Studies Department. She received an Associate of Arts (AA) degree in Liberal Arts (with Honors) from the Borough of Manhattan Community College and a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in Humanities and Justice with History and Philosophy Minors (Summa Cum Laude) from John Jay College of Criminal Justice. At the University of Iowa, she earned her master’s and doctorate degrees in Educational Policy and Leadership Studies (Schools, Culture, and Society) and graduate certificates in Public Digital Humanities and Gender, Women’s and Sexuality Studies. At BC, she has served on several committees, including the Curriculum Advisory Committee (CAC), participated as a panelist for sessions during BC Professional Development days, worked as the Culturally Responsive Practices Lead for the Faculty Commons, and completed and facilitated various professional development workshops with the Faculty Commons.

“PS1 and the CAS reshaped my teaching,” says Edinboro. “Now, I emphasize that what we learn outside the classroom is as important as what we learn in it. It’s nice to know the words and how to apply them, but what are you doing in your community with your values and goals?”

Uchechi Anomnachi

CAS Co-Curator
cas@publicspaceone.com

Uchechi Anomnachi is a PhD student in American studies. His current work centers on race-making in American visual culture, Black spectatorship, and post-modern Blackness.

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