SF/Arts Curator Insight

The California Black Voices Project's second exhibition "memorializes Black and Brown lives lost unjustly and addresses systemic racism in the U.S." The title acknowledges a long history through Maya Angelou's book and Paul Laurence Dunbar's poem, both of which create and practice individual freedom while anticipating the more universal still to come. The hanging sculpture is a canoe formed from measuring tapes and bells that float above shards of burned wood. Bells ring "in remembrance of each life lost, and to call attention to racial disparities and the importance of equality."