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Some are inspired by Met Gala themes, Yoruba bridal looks or Afrofuturist aesthetics.

From BBC • Aug. 22, 2025

The lights come up, showing a stage over which looms a structure that looks like a spaceship — an integral part of director Robert O’Hara’s and set designer Clint Ramos’ Afrofuturist design.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 27, 2024

Inspired by Octavia Butler’s Afrofuturist fiction, a Sonoma County farmer helps Black Californians connect with nature and learn lessons in climate resilience.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 29, 2023

It has put artists from previously excluded groups in the museum’s Great Hall, commissioned sculpture for its niches on Fifth Avenue, and mounted the dense, challenging Afrofuturist Period Room.

From New York Times • Jan. 23, 2023

Curator Ingrid Lafleur has long talked about how Afrofuturist visual aesthetics relies on recovering ancient African cosmology.

From Salon • Nov. 24, 2022