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Join us for our annual San Francisco/ Bay Area Black Art week from Wednesday September 30th - Sunday October 4th, 2026!
Friday October 2, 2026 5:45pm - 7:00pm PDT
The State of Black Artists in San Francisco
Jacqueline Francis, S. Renée Jones, Trina Michelle Robinson and moderated by Makeda Best

Panel: Friday, October 2, 2025, 5:45 PM - 7:00 PM
Location: ICA San Francisco, 345 Montgomery St, San Francisco

This talk will update and continue the discussion we launched at Nexus in 2025: a research survey we are conducting about the state of Black Artists in San Francisco. A large focus will be on supportive resources, such as studio space and funding—access to them, and awareness, use, and precarity of them.
Artists
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Jacqueline Francis

Author, Activist, Educator
Jacqueline Francis is the author of (2012). She is the co-editor of and contributor to two anthologies: Romare Bearden: American Modernist (2011) Is Now the Time for Joyous Rage? (2023)—writings and art placed in conversation with the work of the late conceptual artist Lorrain... Read More →
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S. Renée Jones

Photographer
S. Renée Jones has been a photographer for more than four decades. She studied Art Therapy with an emphasis in black and white film photography at San Francisco State University. For the past 23 years, she has been working with adults living below the poverty level through San Francisco’s... Read More →
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Trina Michelle Robinson

Artist, Curator
Trina Michelle Robinson is a San Francisco–based interdisciplinary artist whose work explores the relationship between memory, migration, and ancestral legacy. Using film, photography, printmaking, installation, and archival materials, Robinson creates emotionally resonant narratives... Read More →
Friday October 2, 2026 5:45pm - 7:00pm PDT
ICA San Francisco

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