The Black Curator’s Lab (BlkCL) is a studio-based residency for ideation, research, making, and rest for Black independent curators living and working primarily in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Designed and stewarded by independent curator Ashara Ekundayo, Founder/Executive Director at Artist As First Responder (AAFR), the Curators-In-Residence (CIR) are individual emerging to mid-career professionals who are working on upcoming exhibitions and/or expanding their own visual arts practice.

The BlkCL is located at Minnesota Street Project in San Francisco's Dogpatch neighborhood and is part of our ongoing collaborative, experimental programming operating at the intersection of abundance, curiosity, scholarship, and self-determination.

BlkCL 2023-2024 inaugural year is co-sponsored by AECreative Consulting Partners LLC, the Kenneth Rainin Foundation, the African American Art & Culture Complex, and the Culture Change Fund.