Join us on Thursday, October 2 from 6–8 PM for an evening of art, dialogue, and community with New Orleans–based artist Auudi Dorsey, in conversation with Key Jo Lee, Chief of Curatorial Affairs and Public Programs at Museum of the African Diaspora. The conversation will be moderated by interdisciplinary artist, curator, and community advocate Mattie Loyce.

Presented in partnership with San Francisco–based gallery Jonathan Carver Moore and timed to coincide with Nexus: SF/Bay Area Black Art Week, this panel explores the intersection of place, memory, and cultural inheritance in Dorsey’s work.

Fresh off a new body of work created as part of Moore’s artist-in-residence program, Dorsey reflects on the influence of New Orleans, ancestral memory, and the celebration of everyday Black life. His paintings honor the past while imagining expansive futures—centering joy, ritual, and the beauty of Black Southern life.