Young artists and fellows will display works exploring Black disaporic histories and archives in an upcoming exhibition at the Peale Museum in Baltimore.
Titled “Of Yesterday + Tomorrow,” the exhibition will open June 26 with a reception at 6 p.m. that day, and it will remain on view through Aug. 17.
It marks the culmination of Muse 360’s 2025 New Generation Scholars Young Artist Archival Fellowship, which empowers youth to examine Black diasporic histories, engage in archival research, and hone their artistry.
“In Of Yesterday + Tomorrow, emerging artist-archival fellows move as both witnesses
and architects—attuned to what came before and reaching into what has yet to take shape,” a news release reads. “Each work becomes a cipher: a living fragment of the archive, holding both stillness and breath. Reverence here is not symbolic—it is structural, generative, and alive. A ritual honed across generations. This is not simply an exhibition to view, but a threshold to cross. A passage. An unfolding vision. A continuum of Black futures shaped by yesterday’s defiance—a constellation of memory in movement.
This year’s seven fellows span a range of artistic disciplines, including collage, drawing, film, painting, pencil work, photography, poetry, printmaking, sculpture, sketching, textile, video and voice overs.
The 2025 fellows are Alaina Lurry, Angel Jones, Christopher Reaves, Donte Hance, Jamal Childs, Mathilde Mujanayi, and Ziggy Sayeed.
The exhibition will also feature works by returning 2024 fellow Tey Saunders and guest artist Jazz Williams.
Starting in January, the fellows spent six months participating in workshops, discussions, artist studio visits, and institutional research, as they “[interrogated] themes of ritual, reverence, ancestral memory, and radical pedagogy,” according to a news release.
The fellowship involved a partnership with Afro Charities Archives, as well as visits to the Baltimore City Archives and Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, where fellows were able to access archival materials.
Cultural workers Nia June, Bry Reed, Jordan Carter, Maurice Scarlett, and Taj Poscé served as advisors to the fellows.
The fellows also received mentorship and guidance from Angela Carroll, Bilphena Yahwon, Bashi Rose, Devin Allen, Deyane Moses, Kirby Griffin, Dr. Jessica Johnson, Joel Diaz, Dr. Nadejda Webb, Rhea Beckett, Savannah Wood, Sharayna Christmas, Sidney Clifton, and Webster Phillips.
Fellows visited studios and archives with Ada Pinkston, Anna Divinagracia, Murjoni Merriweather, Bria Sterling, and Jerrell Gibbs.
