Tune in as Ayana V. Jackson dives in to explore the history and inspiration behind the exhibition From the Deep: In the Wake of Drexciya. Here, her artworks bring to life an African, women-led aquatopia founded during the Middle Passage.
This video, originally presented at the Claiming Space Symposium (2022), is part of the Smithsonian Afrofuturism series, a collaboration of the National Museum of African Art, National Air and Space Museum, and National Museum of African American History and Culture.