Join National Black Arts for a virtual conversation and visual experience to commemorate the public art installation by Masud Olufani.

This year, NBAF’s 2021 programming theme “Rising Above” opens with ELDER Project, in collaboration with Freedom Park Conservancy. Sowing the Imagination is an event that explores the past to plant seeds of hope and build an equitable path forward.

This is a virtual experience that gives a behind the scenes look at the creation of the site-specific art installation by Masud Olufani as well as an exclusive performance and original composition by Okorie "Okcello" Johnson. Calinda Lee from the National Center for Civil and Human Rights will lead a powerful discussion with the artists and along with renowned historian, Nasir Muhammed