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Celebrating Black Futures Reading List
Sat Feb 1, 2025 | 10 AM - Fri Feb 28, 2025 | 8 PM
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Celebrating Black Futures Reading List, 2025, Designed by Nonstikelelo Mutiti and N Mutiti Studio
To complement our 2025 Celebrating Black Futures programming, the Gallery has created a reading list that highlights Black and African literature, poetry and art writing and explores themes of liberation, decolonization, Afrofuturism and more.
Discover these powerful narratives by downloading the pdf below.
Pick up your copy of the physical reading list, printed by Moniker Press, at the Gallery or at one of our partners around the city: Vancouver Public Library, Central Library; Vancouver Black Library; Space Lab; and Nooroongji Books.
WHERE TO FIND THESE BOOKS
NOOROONGJI BOOKS
1666 Johnston Street, Granville Island,
Vancouver, BC V6H 3S2
nooroongji.ca
Gallery Members, show your Membership Card at Nooroongji Books to receive 10% off books from this list!
VANCOUVER PUBLIC LIBRARY
Various locations
vpl.ca
The books on this list are also available to borrow from the Vancouver Public Library.
This Reading List was created by the Vancouver Art Gallery and designed by Nonstikelelo Mutiti and N Mutiti Studio. It is being made available as part of the Gallery’s Celebrating Black Futures programming. Find out more »
ABOUT THE DESIGNER
Nontsikelelo Mutiti is a Zimbabwean–born visual artist and educator. She is invested in elevating the work and practices of Black peoples past, present and future through a conceptual approach to design, publishing, archiving practices and institution building. Mutiti holds a diploma in Multimedia from the Zimbabwe Institute of Vigital Arts (ZIVA) and an MFA from the Yale School of Art, with a concentration in Graphic Design. Mutiti is the Director of Graduate Studies for Graphic Design at Yale School of Art. She has held academic positions at Zimbabwe Institute of Vigital Arts (ZIVA), SUNY Purchase College and VCUart at Virginia Commonwealth University. In 2023, Mutiti designed the first major monograph on artist Simone Leigh’s multimedia explorations of community, Black feminism and the traditions and material cultures of the African diaspora, edited by Eva Respini, the Gallery’s Deputy Director & Director of Curatorial Programs.