Future Legends was a 4-week exhibition and event series produced by Black Interactive at NYU's Clive Davis Gallery during Black Futures Month 2026. Black Interactive is a student-run organization centering emerging black tech & art creators within IMA, ITP, and IDM. I served as Executive Producer of the event series and as well as an exhibiting artist in the gallery. Below are more details on both responsibilities:
As Executive Producer
Future Legends was designed to pull the black art & tech community from around New York area into one room. We brought together students, alumni, faculty, and professionals at the intersection of Blackness and emerging media. Some highlight speakers include: Ari Melenciano, Salome Asega, Dr. Ruha Benjamin, Junglepussy, Stephanie Dinkins, and Anatola Araba.
This was a months-long production across five workstreams (curation, events, marketing, budgeting, and logistics) coordinated across 15+ students from ITP, IMA, and IDM. We raised over $13,500 from NYU departments and external partners, managed honorariums for 20+ contributors, and hosted 500+ attendees across four Fridays in February. My responsibility in producing the Events end-to-end (booking, show flows, day-of production, green room, etc.) opened my mind to what it is possible to produce with a dedicated team and a vision in NYC. I am excited to continue to work with this team for the next Black Futures Month and to produce more events in NYC.
The series moved through four weekly themes: Excavate, Dream, Remix, Actualize. Each week had curated performers, panelists, and speakers recruited by the Events team. Feel free to see some of the people we hosted on the posters below designed for the event by RaFia Santana
To see an archive of the event pages visit: luma.com/blackinteractive
As Exhibition Artist (NIGHTSKIN)
NIGHTSKIN is a visual reclamation, subverting a potentially derogatory term into a display of radiance. Through a synthesis of photography and custom carpentry, the series captures Black creators in flowtion. The use of LIGHT painting illuminates the inherent iridescence of Blackness, tracing the physical evidence of creativity in motion.
In line with Michelle Wallace’s mission to "re-envision vision," NIGHTSKIN refuses to let Black narratives be solely defined by the environment they are perceived within. The work serves as an act of excavation and remix, ensuring these figures are archived not in obscurity, but in light. Furthermore, transforming a historical slur into an expression of Black Brilliance.
The seven pieces were printed, framed in custom-built wood enclosures, and installed in the Clive Davis Gallery for the full month of February.
The layout is composed of a select subset of my phytography framed in wood and syntactically sequenced and illuminated and separated by BLACKSPACE.
The pieces were mounted and lit after a process of Iterating the layout, designing, laser cutting, and assembling custom magnetic frames.
A huge thank you to Lamar J Robillard for encouraging me to take this install to the next level!
