Nexus 2026: Full Schedule

Join us for our annual San Francisco/ Bay Area Black Art week from Wednesday September 30th - Sunday October 4th, 2026!

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4:00pm PDT

Disappearing West Oakland - Cityscapes of Change: Artist Talk

Wednesday September 30, 2026 4:00pm - 6:00pm PDT

7th West @ 1255 7th St, Oakland, CA 94607, USA

Disappearing West Oakland - Cityscapes of Change
Wednesday Sept 30th | 4 PM - 6 PM
7th West, Oakland, CA

This session will tour the landscape of West Oakland in photo images made from a variety of documentary concerns and artistic sensibility. Attendees will be taken through key ideas about the convergence of art and documentary in photography, demonstrated by coverage of the famous and distressed West Oakland neighborhood during the 2020's. The session will be a guided running dialogue with the audience, hosted by photographer and art critic Malcolm Ryder of the NEA, Oakland Art Murmur, and East Bay Photo Collective.

Artists

Malcolm Ryder

Photographer

A Virginia native, I came to Oakland, CA, by way of Norfolk, Atlanta, New York, Washington DC, and San Francisco. I was born into a family of activist artists and university professors. After becoming one of the first Black graduates of the elite Westminster Schools in Atlanta... Read More →

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Wednesday September 30, 2026 4:00pm - 6:00pm PDT
7th West 1255 7th St, Oakland, CA 94607, USA

Artist Talk

6:00pm PDT

Artist Talk | After the Island: Ornament and Ceramic Practice in the Jamaican Diaspora

Wednesday September 30, 2026 6:00pm - 7:30pm PDT

Museum of the African Diaspora @ 685 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94105, USA

Artist Talk | After the Island: Ornament and Ceramic Practice in the Jamaican Diaspora
Curator Key Jo Lee in conversation with Artists Sharon Norwood, PJ Anderson and Jacqueline Bishop
6 pm - 7:30 pm
MoAD

Arts & Culture Leaders

Key Jo Lee

Chief of Curatorial Affairs & Public Programs, Museum of the African Diaspora

Key Jo Lee is chief of curatorial affairs and public programs at the Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD) in San Francisco. In this role, Lee oversees the strategic direction for the museum’s exhibitions and programs; leads globally on identifying and promoting emerging artists... Read More →

Artists

Jacqueline Bishop

Artist

b. 1971, Kingston, Jamaica
lives and works in New York, NY

Jacqueline Bishop is an accomplished writer, academic, and visual artist with exhibitions in Belgium, Morocco, Italy, Cape Verde, Niger, USA, and Jamaica. In addition to her role as Clinical Full Professor at New York University, Jacqueline Bishop was a 2020 Dora Maar/Brown Founda... Read More →

PJ Anderson

Artist

PJ Anderson is Jamaican Canadian/Red River Métis Artist from Thompson, Manitoba, Canada. She has shown internationally, as Resident Artist at the University of KwaZulu Natal in South Africa, China as a finalist in the International Ceramic Magazine Editors Associations (ICMEA) emerging... Read More →

Sharon Norwood

Artist

Sharon Norwood is a Jamaican-born interdisciplinary artist whose practice spans ceramics, drawing, found objects, and installation. Through material exploration and process-based experimentation, her work engages with race, labour, identity, and historical narratives, often examining... Read More →

Wednesday September 30, 2026 6:00pm - 7:30pm PDT
Museum of the African Diaspora

Artist Talk

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4:00pm PDT

Malcolm Ryder

6:00pm PDT

Key Jo Lee

Jacqueline Bishop

PJ Anderson

Sharon Norwood

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