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Curated by The Center for Afofuturist Studies (CAS)
The Center for Afrofuturist Studies is an artist residency program that reimagines the futures of marginalized people by creating dynamic workspaces for artists of color
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Iowa City center's visiting muralist hopes to build a virtual Black mythology from the ashes of an 1898 white supremacist coup d'etat (2020)
Isaac HamletExternal Link
Afrofuturist artists highlight Black history you likely didn’t learn in school with new website (2020)
Genevieve TrainorExternal Link
Queer Art Workers Reflect: Anaïs Duplan On “Becoming a Better Lover”—Not Just in a Romantic Sense (2020)
Dessane Lopez CassellExternal Link
Exhibit Time Now For Ghosts explores connection between blackness and the natural world
Samantha MurrayExternal Link
Four Groups Are Recipients of New Grants to Support Black Arts Organizations (2018)
Monica UszerowiczExternal Link
Space (or Iowa City) Is the Place: Inside the New Center for Afrofuturist Studies (2016)
Carey DunneExternal Link
New Center for Afrofuturist Studies brings Iowa City to the intersection of art, race and technology (2016)
Genevieve TrainorExternal Link
Afro futurism: Collaboration between PromptPress and the Center for Afrofuturist Studies is coming
Isaac HamletExternal Link
To confront systemic racism in Iowa City, a mural won't be enough
Dellyssa EdinboroExternal Link