A growing archive of our curatorial work — from intimate solo shows in Accra to group presentations across Florida and beyond.
Diaspora Fine Art presents Living Legacy, a group exhibition opening during Juneteenth Weekend in Tampa, Florida. The exhibition features the works of Noland Anderson, Kamil Peters, and Meclina Gomes, three alumni of the James Weldon Johnson Artist Residency whose practices span painting, mixed media, and the ongoing conversation between African and diaspora experience. Their work is grounded in a shared conviction: that art is an assertion of identity, culture, and lived experience.
James Weldon Johnson was a poet, civil rights leader, and one of the defining voices of the Harlem Renaissance. He believed that Black art carried the full weight of Black humanity. Living Legacy asks what it means to carry that weight forward, and what these three artists have to say about freedom, visibility, and cultural memory in 2026.
The opening weekend runs June 18–21 at the AC Hotel Tampa Airport, featuring a curated exhibition of 15 to 25 works alongside four days of programming. Exhibition viewing on the hotel's public walls continues June 22–30 at no charge.
Hotel guests enter free on June 19. Free wall viewing continues June 22–30.
Buy TicketsA landmark solo exhibition at which Jewel Teiko Eklu presented an immersive body of work exploring the tension between fate and agency, chance and intention. Through oil, acrylic, pastel and mixed media, Eklu constructed a visual world in which surrealism and abstraction collide — inviting viewers into a space where belief, gambling, money and the human will intersect.
The exhibition drew critical acclaim in Accra and marked a defining moment in Eklu's international profile, establishing him as one of the most compelling voices in contemporary West African art.
The BTAFF programme continued in February 2025 with a new chapter — a presentation at Dean Street that extended the visual language of the original 2023 exhibition into new territory. The 2025 edition deepened the curatorial conversation around Eklu's practice, presenting new works alongside documentation of the artist's evolving process.
A group exhibition centred on the theme of tolerance — presenting poster-based works from multiple artists in a carefully considered installation format. The show used the visual language of the poster — historically a tool of public communication and political messaging — to explore ideas of coexistence, empathy and shared humanity.
