Future Now & Building Futures (2020-22)

Visiting artist Maya Manvi worked with SPARC to develop an artist speaker series featuring minority artists inspired by Afrofuturism. The associated class Building Futures developed specifically for Porter art students invited students to create their own projects inspired by the speakers. Funded by Porter College with SPARC. Future/Now brought three internationally recognized artists whose intersectional, feminist work explores love, justice, tragedy, and joy in the African and African American diaspora. Working through a range of formal approaches and media including film, television, immersive media and VR, and photography, this cross-disciplinary lecture/screening series offered three distinct opportunities to open new conversations across disciplines. Created in coordination with Porter College, SPARC and UCSC’s Social Documentary Program.