AfroPortals Project Space & Archive

Through a regenerative tiered structure the AfroPortals Project Space & Archive (AfroPortals) fosters resiliency and builds power in communities deeply affected by racialized trauma and state-sanctioned violence by supporting the current cultural environment with the physical presence of a resource portal.

This interdisciplinary site-specific prototype is trauma-and-joy-informed, and centers culturally resuscitative efforts led by Black artists, curators, archivists, culture-keepers and others whose creative labor saves lives. AfroPortals anchors our vision of a just community by creating an environment where BIPOC arts laborers and educators are protected, honored and fully invested in. 

Lead Curator: Ashara Ekundayo

The AfroPortals is a collaboration

pilot project of Artist As First Responder,


the East Oakland Black Cultural Zone CDC and

Eastside Arts Alliance funded by

Mellon Foundation and the Wallace Foundation.  

Shared Studios

PORTALS

Engaging the intersections of art, identity and activism around the world!

The AfroPortals Project Space & Archive is proud to host a partnership with Shared_Studios to bring together communities around the globe for transformative conversations as if in the same room.

Housed alongside AfroPortals, Shared_Studios explores the power of art, arts activism, its influence across the continent and throughout the Black African Diaspora.