San Diego’s Black creative presence has often been undervalued and fragmented across disciplines, neighborhoods, and institutions, yet when these distinct voices and practices come together, their collective impact becomes unified, visible, and impossible to ignore.

 

One Source, Many Streams is a Pan-African exhibition that brings together San Diego-based Black artists across visual art, fashion, sculpture, literature, and design to illuminate the depth, range, and cultural power of the community while honoring many distinct expressions of African identity grounded in a shared source.

 

Participation in this exhibition is both an acknowledgment of the creative labor, cultural lineage, and lived experience of Black artists in San Diego and a call to unity, organization, and collective visibility: an intentional act of bringing work, voices, and narratives into the light together.

 

More than a showcase, the exhibition stands as a statement that Black creativity in San Diego is present, evolving, and worthy of institutional recognition, forming a living archive of resilience, expression, and possibility that demonstrates what becomes visible when many streams move as one source.