ARTISTS WHO MAKE FUTURES
Conversation Series

ADAMA DELPHINE FAWUNDU X fayemi shakur

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ARTISTS WHO MAKE FUTURES Conversation Series
Episode 3: Adama Delphine Fawundu X fayemi shakur

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This episode is also available on Bloomberg Connects.

About the Artist

Adama Delphine Fawundu is a Brooklyn-born visual artist, educator, and cultural organizer whose interdisciplinary practice is rooted in photography and expanded through textiles, video, sound, and handmade paper. Grounded in what she terms Kpoto Patchwok—a methodology informed by ancestral intelligence, embodied memory, and ecological knowledge—her work explores how stories are carried and preserved through bodies, landscapes, and material culture.


A first-generation artist with heritage from Sierra Leone and Equatorial Guinea, Fawundu is co-author and editor of MFON: Women Photographers of the African Diaspora. She has received numerous honors, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, CatchLight Fellowship, Rema Hort Mann Foundation Artist Grant, and a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship. Her work has been exhibited internationally, including at the São Paulo Biennial and the Bamako Encounters Photography Biennial, and is held in numerous public and private collections.


Learn more about Fawundu at
www.delphinefawundu.com

About fayemi shakur

fayemi shakur is a writer, cultural critic and cultural producer based in Newark, New Jersey.  She is also a Visiting Lecturer at Rutgers University-Newark, Department of Art, Culture and Media. Previously, she has served as executive director of City Without Walls art gallery in Newark. Her writing has been featured in The New York Times, Hyperallergic, HYCIDE magazine, The International Review of African American Art, Nueva Luz Photographic Journal and MFON: Women Photographers in the African Diaspora among other books and publications.


Learn more about shakur at
www.fayemishakur.com