Sewing, writing, and filmmaking are integral to Sandra Sawatzky’s life. Inspired by the Bayeux Tapestry,* the artist challenged herself to stitch a modern epic. Sawatzky’s Black Gold Tapestry narrates the history of humanity’s relationship with oil.

Imani Jacqueline Brown's installation What remains at the ends of the earth? looks at the history of land occupied by Black Louisianans. The artist shows how oil plants, pipelines, and wells often sit where plantations and memorials to the ancestors of enslaved peoples are located.

Akea Brionne explores how colonial systems affect cultural storytelling. She starts by photographing images, then digitally manipulates the photographs to create images on a woven surface. She decorates the fabric with sequins and beads and adds padding to give her figures depth.

Maya Watanabe’s Zhùr explores mortality and permanence. The video features a recently discovered wolf puppy that was frozen intact for 57,000 years. For millennia, the Arctic was so cold that many plants and animals that died there froze before they rotted.

Nyugen Smith makes alternate worlds that are inspired by the creativity and resilience of the Black diaspora. His Bundle House series comes from ten years of exploring themes of uncertainty and forced migration. With roots in Trinidad and Haiti, Smith focuses on the Caribbean.

LOT-EK, founded in 1993 by Ada Tolla and Giuseppe Lignano, is an architectural design studio. The studio uses innovative approaches to green construction and adaptive reuse. On view here are LOT-EK’s ingenious seating and lounging areas.