Visiting Artist Lecture: Quentin VerCetty

Quentin VerCetty is an award-winning sculptor, visual griot, and leading voice in Afrofuturistic public art. His works blend ancestral wisdom with futuristic imagination, creating monuments, memorials, and installations that reclaim Black histories while envisioning liberatory futures. VerCetty is the creator of landmark pieces such as the Joshua Glover Memorial – Stepping Forward into History and Lincoln M. Alexander: Suited for Greatness, and he was the first artist commissioned by Carnegie Hall for its Afrofuturism Festival. As founder of AstroSankofa Arts Initiatives and BSAM Canada, he mentors emerging artists and transforms public spaces into sites of memory, imagination, and possibility.

This talk is free and open to the public, all are welcome. Registration required. If you have accommodation needs, please let us know through the registration form or contact dmg.utsc@utoronto.ca.

Scarborough students attending for course credit should register here. 

This talk is part of the Visiting Artist Lecture Series, co-presented by the Doris McCarthy Gallery & Studio Art program, Department of Arts, Culture & Media, University of Toronto Scarborough. The theme of this year's series, Futures Otherwise: Memory, Myth and the Politics of Tomorrow, invites artists to share insights into their respective practices exploring themes including Afrofuturism, Indigenous futurisms, diasporic mythology, techno-utopian, queer temporalities, and beyond. These artists engage with the future not just as speculative, but as a site of resistance, healing, memory and radical re-imagining. 

This program takes place on campus at U of T Scarborough, in Room IA2160, Sam Ibrahim Building (1050 Military Trail). For directions to campus, and public transit and parking information, see the DMG’s Visitor Information. For first-time visitors to campus, we recommend consulting the campus map. Please call the gallery at 416.287.7007 if you need additional wayfinding support upon arrival.

This is a seated event. The classroom is wheelchair accessible.