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What you’re seeing is the in-between — the building phase of my next project
I’m currently directing and assembling a project that means a lot to me. The speculative film explores how we might call upon maroonage as an ancestral knowledge for Black life to live and thrive under current systems of hypervisibility and surveillance.
We’re close, we just need a little help to get it across the finish line. This is where I’m asking for support from you, my community.
I’m still in production, and I’m looking for help securing locations, wardrobe, production resources, set pieces or anything that could help us complete this film.
Even sharing this, or pointing me to someone who can help, is meaningful.
If you’d like to support directly, DM me or reach out and I’ll send details.
I deeply appreciate your support.
#Artbae #oaklandfilm #makeitbay #BlackCinema #Blackart
08 Jun 2026
Making this work felt like walking in a second line for your favorite cousin, me, my mom, and my sister dancing with the dead in a field of dandelions. The kind of dancing that feels like memory moving through the body.
I kept seeing block parties we can’t return to, grills smoking, music bleeding into the street, aunties laughing, cousins running wild. The spirits are still with us. They never left. They sit in the wind. They hum in the bass line. They remind me of the maroon spaces Oakland has always made for me and my people, from the Great Migration until now, even as displacement, violence, and poverty try to close in.
We found ways to make time. We always have.
It’s the last week to see the show. Tell a friend. Bring your people. DM me what it moves in you.
26 Feb 2026
I’m proud to share my first period piece — a short film I directed, and co-wrote with @wordslanger and @flowerspowermovingpictures about the untold stories of Black women who disguised themselves as men to fight in the Civil War.
big thanks to the over 40 cast and crew who who rocked with me through the, heat , swamps, ticks and leeches🙏🏾
Special thanks to the EP’s @bambdcdc , @xavier.rernard , Justin Potter, and the @for_site team.
The film will be part of a FOR-SITE exhibition “Black Gold Stories Untold” opening June 7th at Fort Point in San Francisco.
01 Jun 2025
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22 Oct 2026
Watch Bay Area artists Mildred Howard and Adrian Burrell come together in Mildred's kitchen to cook, sharing stories of the people, places, and experiences that shape their lives and art. Burrell’s work was recently on view at OMCA as part of “Black Spaces: Reclaim and Remain”, and now Mildred Howard’s work takes center stage in “Mildred Howard: Poetics of Memory”.
Don’t miss the chance to join these ‘Artists in Conversation’ on 10/2 for @nexussfbay! Plus experience the first major museum exhibition dedicated to the acclaimed Bay Area artist, Mildred Howard on view through October 18 at OMCA!
📅 October 2, 2026
📍 Oakland Museum of California
🎟️ Plan your visit at the link in bio!
🎥Watch the full video on YouTube
#MildredHoward #TheOaklandMuseumofCalifornia #NexusBlackArtWeek #BlackArt #OMCA #OaklandArtists
24 Sep 2026
Adrian L. Burrell is a third-generation Oakland artist whose work examines race, class, and intergenerational dynamics. Through film, photography, and site-specific installation, he explores kinship, diasporic narratives, and the tension between place and belonging. By creating spaces for collective storytelling as acts of re-memory, Burrell uses his practice as both a tool for healing and a means of imagining new futures.
His work is currently featured in Black Spaces: Reclaim & Remain at the Oakland Museum of California (@oaklandmuseumca), an exhibition exploring the intertwined histories of displacement, resistance, and resilience within Black communities in Oakland and the East Bay.
Commissioned in 2024, Message to the Dandelions employs multi-channel film, works on paper, textile, and light to consider the possibilities of liberation beyond empire’s entanglements with Black life.
Through new art commissions, architecture, and archival research, Black Spaces reveals how Black communities have resisted dispossession and reimagined spaces of home and belonging. Drawing inspiration from the legacies of West Oakland and Russell City, the exhibition weaves together works from OMCA’s permanent collection and local archives to trace the rise of these communities and the forces that sought to erase them. It is a powerful meditation on how Black communities, despite systemic oppression, continue to summon creativity and resistance to preserve their histories and shape their futures.
Experience Black Spaces: Reclaim & Remain on view through March 1, 2026, as part of the second annual Nexus: SF/Bay Area Black Art Week (@nexussfbay).
#AdrianBurrell #OMCA #WestOakland #RussellCity #BlackArt #BayAreaArt #Nexus #SFBayArea #BlackArtWeek
04 Oct 2025
Grateful for a year of movement, creation, and the love of friends and family who have carried me through. As I reflect on the beauty I’ve seen in the world and the opportunities I’ve had to express my vision, I’m reminded of the responsibility we all share to build something lasting—something rooted in care, solidarity, and transformation.
🌍 In a time when so many are fighting for their right to exist, from Sundan & Palestine to our own backyards, I feel called to dream beyond borders and systems that divide us.
🤝 In 2025 I want to deepen connections and start imagining what capacity building could look like together. To my friends building farms, organizing for justice, creating art, and cultivating spaces of healing and change: let’s talk about how the work we’re already doing can align, grow, and support each other.
🎨 Through art, through action, through love—together ✊🏾
DM me if you want to brainstorm or explore how our paths might intersect. Let’s plant seeds for the future while honoring what we’re already nurturing.
27 Dec 2024
My new film, The Game God(S) is out now, as a part of the @newyorkermag documentary series. You can stream via the link in my bio.
I grew up in a family of hard-working women, career criminals, and people determined to make a way out of the no way. People like my grandmother, dubbed Queen mother of Ghostown in "Drug Lords of Oakland" by Titus Lee Barnes. People like my mother, who was put in jail for welfare fraud, we lived in lead-painted houses, she had four children by C- section, and working 2-3 jobs wasn't enough. I grew up with the chance takers, dandelion seeds of The Great Displacement out of Jim Crow Louisiana, my people, pushing on a stone tryna get free again.
The Game God(S) is a non-linear look into the American Dream from the Black Market's perspective. The film points to American capitalism and its original sins: the commodification of black bodies, and the theft of indigenous lands. I wanted to create a meditation that forces us to hold history and its afterlives in the same vessel. A film that troubles the archive and doesn't allow for simple endings.
02 Feb 2022
I’m excited to announce that my first book “Sugarcane and Lightning” is now available for preorder through @minormattersbooks [#LINKINBIO]
I’m grateful to everyone who continues to help us create a legacy that our people can laugh, cry, and smile at for a hundred years. This wouldn’t be possible without all the Black Women who brought me to be; those seen and unseen, friends, family, and organizations that support the work.
@blackrocksenegal @vertigalm @icasanjose @idastanford @minnesotastreetproject @popupmagazine @photoalliance_sf @kqedarts @ogpenn @moadsf @forfreedoms @stanfordaah @stanforddocfilm @petenicks @a_lanmoon @tiffanyebarber @iamtoniburrell @xavier.rernard
The first 500 people to buy will be listed as Co-publishers in the book!
01 May 2023
“God Don’t Like Ugly”
Vanessa Burrell ~ 2020
18 Mar 2022
Grateful to everyone who helped me out behind the scenes all 2023. I’m excited to announce the first copies of Sugarcane and Lightning published by @minormattersbooks have been shipped out and I’m looking forward to up coming conversations, film screenings, and Book signings this February. Thanks again to everyone who got they copy. Link in bio for everyone who would still like to order one. So many people and places to be grateful for, if I didn’t tag you, know I’m grateful for ever kind word, unspoken prayer and selfless gesture. 🙏🏾 thank you
17 Jan 2024
THIS FRIDAY: Join our founder, Jonathan Carver Moore (@JonathanCarverMoore) and Adrian L. Burrell (@AdrianLBurrell), Oakland based artist, for a walkthrough of Burrell’s latest exhibition, “Venus Blues,” on view at Minnesota Street Project (@MinnesotaStreetProject).
“Venus Blues” honors the mysteries of the past and the powerful matriarchs — the Venuses — at the center of Burrell’s extended family. Rather than the classical image of white Western beauty or mythological figures, the women in “Venus Blues” embody the effects of loss and rupture that issue from being systematically torn from family, home, and country.
Moore shares “Adrian’s works are not only aesthetically pleasing, but also hold great historical relevance. Adrian’s current exhibition is one people need to see and let the body of work sit with them. He is an artist to watch and one we will all be talking about for years to come.”
Burrell is an artist based in Oakland, CA who uses photography, film, and site-specific installation to invite moments where collective storytelling can be a site for rememory – used as much for healing as for stretching towards the not-yet-imagined.
RSVP TODAY → [email protected]
#VenusBluesExhibit #AdrianLBurrell #AdrianBurell #JonathanCarverMoore #MinnesotaStreetProject #OaklandArtist #OaklandCreatives #VisualStorytelling #CommunityEngagement #ExhibitionTour #BayArea #California
14 Nov 2023
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