Black (W)hole: A Black Feminist Art Happening is both an organic and a highly curated series of convergences centering Black feminist energy, aesthetics, memory, and practice in the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond.

This annual 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. 

In the 2026-2027 calendar of programming, we will be hosting a series of events culminating in a symposium to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Combahee River Collective Statement (April 1977 - April 2027). The symposium will bring together scholars, artists and activists to reflect on the legacy of the Combahee River Collective Statement and how we can activate the insights and interventions of this foundational text in a moment of democratic unraveling, resurgent racial terror, authoritarian violence, and the decline of US empire. The symposium will feature a keynote by the mighty Barbara Smith and a host of Black feminist elders and contemporary thinkers. The gathering will take place in April 2027 so stay tuned to our website for more details. 

We bear witness to the fact that the formation of a Black whole, as a cosmic occurrence, can last for merely one hour, one day, one week, or be indefinite.

Wait. Watch. Enter the Black (W)hole.

Curators

| Ashara Ekundayo | 

| Courtney Desiree Morris | 

| Lisbet Tellefsen |