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Open Studio x Artist Talk: Ashara Ekundayo in Conversation with Emory Douglas
Friday October 2, 2026 11:30am - 2:00pm PDT
Minnesota Street Project Artist Studios
Open Studio x Artist Talk: Ashara Ekundayo in Conversation with Emory Douglas

Join Artist As First Responder at our SF artist Studio on the 1st stop on The BLAC Map Tour - a guided multi-location experience for arts and culture lovers to explore BLACspace’s ecosystem.

Emory Douglas is a renowned political artist and activist whose work has been central to the Black liberation movement since the 1960s. His style has influenced numerous artists over many decades. Born in Grand Rapids, Michigan in 1943 and raised in San Francisco, he studied commercial art at City College of San Francisco. Douglas joined the Black Panther Party in 1967, serving as Minister of Culture until the early 1980s. His bold graphic designs defined the visual identity of the Black Panther Newspaper, amplifying the Party’s politics and the voices of the Black community for over 500 issues. Douglas continues to create art that educates, inspires, and mobilizes, staying deeply committed to justice and liberation.Black Panther, The Revolutionary Art of Emory Douglas published in 2007, provides a comprehensive collection of his posters and graphics from the 1960s through the early 2000s. His work has been collected around the world and can be seen at New York’s Museum of Modern Art as well as many other institutions around the world.

Ashara Ekundayo is a Black feminist cultural theologian with a creative practice rooted in joy-informed pedagogies and the study, creation and exhibition of Black archives. She explores cultural identity, memory, liberation, and place and space through spellcasting, spirituality, architecture, and history as an interdisciplinary independent curator, archivist, arts administrator, and visual maker. She is the founder and Executive Creative Director of the Artist As First Responder collective located in Oakland, CA and Detroit, MI centering the work of artists whose practices heal communities and save lives.

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Ashara Ekundayo

Creator, Founder, Executive Creative Director at Artist As First Responder
Ashara Ekundayo is a Black feminist cultural theologian with a creative practice rooted in joy-informed pedagogies and the study, creation and exhibition of Black archives. She explores cultural identity, memory, liberation, and place and space through spellcasting, spirituality, architecture, and... Read More →
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Emory Douglas

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Emory Douglas has deep roots in the San Francisco Bay Area, where he has been a resident since 1951. He attended City College of San Francisco where he majored in commercial art. Huey Newton and Bobby Seale named Douglas as Revolutionary Artist and later Minister of Culture for the... Read More →

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Friday October 2, 2026 11:30am - 2:00pm PDT
Minnesota Street Project Artist Studios 1240 Minnesota St, San Francisco, CA 94107, USA
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