MoAD & SFMOMA Present: Building Universes

Thu Feb 05 2026 at 05:00 pm to 08:00 pm UTC-08:00

685 Mission St, San Francisco, CA | San Francisco

Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD)
Publisher/HostMuseum of the African Diaspora (MoAD)
MoAD & SFMOMA Present: Building Universes
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Building Universes – Two exhibitions, two ways of imagining the world anew.
Suzanne Jackson: What Is Love, illuminates the cosmos one artist can create through a singular, visionary practice, while UNBOUND: Art, Blackness & the Universe reveals what becomes possible when artists from across the African Diaspora build cosmologies together—ideas sparking ideas, worlds unfolding in conversation.
MoAD and SFMOMA invite you to spend an unforgettable evening in downtown San Francisco, moving between our neighboring museums and the artistic worlds they hold. Inspired in part by the spirit of the 1972 Black Art Expo curated by Suzanne Jackson, poets and dancers will offer original responses within the galleries, animating both exhibitions with live performance.

Travel freely between the two sites, follow the pathways of art and movement, and see what new universe begins to take shape for you.

Unique performances with poets and dancers will take place at MoAD and SFMOMA, each repeated giving you the opportunity to see one performance at each institution. Catch the first performance at MoAD and then head over to SFMOMA for the second performance, or start at SFMOMA for their first performance and find your way to MoAD for the second performance.

PERFORMANCE TIMES ARE THE SAME AT BOTH MUSEUMS:
First Performance: 5:15-6:15pm
Second Performance: 6:45-7:45pm

The poetry performances will be curated by Nia Pearl and the dance performances will be curated by Raissa Simpson.
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