Moving Forward is an exhibition pushing forward into new digital exhibition spaces in order to amplify plural artistic voices. As global dynamics are morphing daily within the post-pandemic paradigm, we have experienced seismic shifts — shifts in our relationship to distance, reevaluations of our relationship with what’s “essential,” and a phenomenal shifting in our relationships with one another, catalyzed most recently by the fatal injustices against George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and Rayshard Brooks killed principally for the fact of their Blackness. Although the theme was originally conceived in response to the COVID-19 public health crisis, this exhibition radiates healing power through exploring the state of possibility, and this healing remains vital to our ongoing collective struggles under the most palpable hegemonies of race, class, and gender.

Moving Forward is a polyphonic and polyvocal conversation composed of artists living in the US, Taiwan, Greece, Italy, and the United Kingdom.

About the Juror:

Zoma Wallace is an independent curator, published art writer, and artist from Washington, DC. She served the District of Columbia’s municipal government as its first curator for nine years while on staff at the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities. While there, she contemporized the city-owned collection of fine art, began a robust practice of producing city-funded exhibitions for the specific benefit of District residents, and developed a new grant program to support emerging curators with funding and gallery space to realize compelling ideas. At the close of 2018, she decided to work independently in order to more effectively collaborate with artists to produce transformative and visionary projects. Zoma is an alumna of Spelman College, holds a Master of Fine Arts in painting from Howard University, and is currently working towards a doctorate in Art Theory & Philosophy at the Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts (IDSVA).