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From Kurai Primary School in Kambuzuma to the bench in Denton County, Texas. 🇿🇼🇺🇸
Zimbabwe is a small country of about 16 million people, yet Zimbabweans are making waves in every room worth noting around the world. Now we can add U.S. politics to that list.
Congratulations to Judge-Elect Michelle Netsai Butler on her historic win as Denton County Justice of the Peace, Precinct 6. She is the first Black judge elected in Denton County and the first Black Zimbabwean-American judge elected to public office in the United States.
Michelle got her marriage license and her first U.S. passport in the same building where the JP6 court now sits. Soon she will preside there as Judge.
She ran on a simple promise: the court should not trap working families. That means payment plans instead of jail for small fines, connecting families to help before an eviction, and asking why a child is missing school instead of just punishing them.
Michelle’s story is only the beginning. Follow her and watch it unfold. I couldn’t be more proud to know her, and to support her unapologetically.
“No matter where you’re from, your dreams are valid.” -Lupita Nyong’o
Makorokoto, Michelle! Halala! 🎉
@michelleforjustice
Interview: Dr. Ibbo Mandaza @sapes_trust
#DentonCounty #JusticeOfThePeace #BlackHistory #AfricaRising #RepresentationMatters
04 Nov 2026
**Some letters remind you exactly why you started. 🧡🥍**
Building LaxReach hasn’t always been easy. There have been obstacles, closed doors and moments when I’ve wondered whether I’m just a teenager in over my head. Then a letter like this arrives from @kingskidsbt King’s Kids in Blantyre, Malawi, and everything comes back into focus.
Watching these children pick up a stick for the first time, cheer each other on and play with pure joy didn’t just keep me going. It changed how I see life. They reminded me that courage isn’t about age or circumstance, and that none of us are defined by where we start.
Thank you, King’s Kids, for your kind words and for trusting us with your incredible children. You inspired us far more than we could ever inspire you. 🇲🇼
#LaxReach #LaxReachSouthernAfricaTour2026 #KingsKidsbt #LacrosseForAll #GrowTheGame
22 Oct 2026
@artwalkoakcliff is this weekend, and we are pulling out all the stops!
We’re delighted to be partnering with @indibanoart to feature artwork by Southern African artists, including the @spierartstrust Creative Blocks, a unique collection of artwork and expression of contemporary South African culture.
We are baking more pastries than ever before, offering some of our favorite South African wines by the glass, and Warren & friends are braaing (BBQ) boerie rolls — it’s delicious, trust us!
Come on out this Friday for a little Kuluntu after dark or join the festivities on Saturday. We’re so looking forward to this soul-filling weekend and enjoying all the local art throughout @east.dock.
21 Oct 2026
For a decade, Det-Zim, the Zimbabwe Cultural Centre of Detroit at Sadza Space, has been doing the slow, essential work of cultural exchange. It brings Zimbabwean artists to Detroit, takes Detroiters to Zimbabwe, and supports the writers, curators and archivists who keep the story alive.
Thank you, Chido Johnson and the Det-Zim family, for welcoming us. Here’s to building this bridge together. ✨
@zimbabwe_detroit
Swipe through to learn why residencies matter ➡️
Follow @indibanoart for more.
#ArtistResidency #CulturalExchange #DetroitArt #Jit #AfricanDiaspora
20 Oct 2026
The headline is the price, but the bigger story is what it signals. Global collectors are competing for African contemporary art in the world’s top salerooms. For creatives across the continent, it’s proof that work rooted in your own story belongs on the biggest stages. 🌍
Congratulations, Portia! We’re so proud to celebrate you. 🇿🇼❤️
Swipe through to learn what an auction record really means ➡️
#AfricanArt #ContemporaryAfricanArt #ChristiesLondon #ArtMarket #AfricanArtists
19 Oct 2026
One continent. 54 countries. One stage in London. 🌍✨
This week, @154artfair returns to Somerset House for its 14th London edition, running alongside Frieze. Founded in 2013 by Touria El Glaoui, 1-54 has grown into the leading international fair for contemporary art from Africa and its diaspora, now spanning London, Marrakech and New York.
We’re especially proud to see Zimbabwean-born, Cape Town-based artist Lionel Mbayiwa (@baba_kupa ) showing with @spierartstrust . His bold cubist animals carry the Shona folktales he grew up hearing around the fire. 🐐🐂🐦
Earlier this year, Dallas artists Reuben Cheatem, Ebony Lewis and Andrea Tosten visited Lionel in his Cape Town studio on our reverse excursion. Seeing his work now on one of the art world’s biggest stages is what cultural exchange is all about. 🤝🏾
In London for Frieze? Live in London? Go see it.
📍 Somerset House, Strand
🗓 Through Sunday 18 October
Swipe through for the full story ➡️
#154ArtFair #FriezeLondon #FriezeWeek #ContemporaryAfricanArt #AfricanArt
16 Oct 2026
You’re cordially invited 🎉 to the project launch and presentation of BLACK MATTER DAKAR ✊🏾🇸🇳 Please join us to learn about this new program and help us to achieve the goal of developing a unique institution in service to Black art, Black artists, and Portland’s contemporary art ecosystem.
Where: Studio 516, 516 NW 14th Ave, PDX
When: Thursday, October 22nd
Times: 5:30pm start
6:00pm remarks
Hang out till 7:30
Refreshments provided 🥘🧃
Through this project, the initial cohort (Tammy Jo Wilson, Michael B. Stevenson Jr., Emma Colburn and Bukekile Dube) will set the foundation for several ongoing projects:
BLACK MATTER DAKAR, an artist residency spanning two continents
A biannual trip to the Dakar Biennale hosted by Art in Oregon and other collaborating art institutions that offers the BLACK MATTER family and supporters an opportunity to exchange culture with Senegalese artists, curators, and art institutions
Youth-based programming that supports cohorts of Portland youth to learn about Senegal as a gateway to the African continent through creative projects including visual arts, fashion, and performance
A link in my profile leads to the gofundme where more information can be found.
15 Oct 2026
A huge THANK YOU to our first 4 guest speakers for pouring into the fellows of Impactful Touch’s Young Civic Empowerment Institute:
✨ Sandra Bowie — Engagement Manager, Convention and Event Services, City of Dallas
✨ Ed Turner — Dallas ISD School Board Trustee, District 9
✨ Akilah Wallace — Founder and Principal Strategist, SOLID Public Affairs
✨ Buke Dube — Volunteer Advocate Lead, RESULTS Dallas Chapter
From voting and representation to fundraising and advocacy, these leaders shared experiences, practical tools, and lessons to help our fellows turn their passion for community into action.
Thank you for your time, your honesty, and your commitment to developing young civic leaders. Your impact extends beyond the session as our fellows take what they’re learning into their communities!!!
#ImpactfulTouch #YoungCivicEmpowermentInstitute #CivicLeadership #CommunityEmpowerment #Dallas
14 Oct 2026
Venice changed how we see the world. And we believe every young artist deserves that same shift. 🌍✨
To close our #VeniceBiennale series with appreciation of ALL art: walking the Giardini and Arsenale is not just seeing art. It is standing inside a global conversation, where 80+ nations bring their histories, wounds, and futures under one sky.
For us, seeing African and diasporic voices held with such pride across the pavilions, to artists representing the continent and its global family, was a reminder that Africa and its diaspora aren’t guests at this table. We are the table.
Under “In Minor Keys,” the 61st edition invited us to slow down, listen closely, and honor the quiet voices that shape culture.
Here’s our truth: this experience should not belong only to those who can afford the flight. Art students, emerging curators, arts workers globally, you deserve to stand in these rooms too. Exposure builds ambition. Ambition builds ecosystems. 🎨
That is the future we’re building at Indibano, one exchange at a time.
👉 Save this for your art bucket list.
💬 Tell us: which artist or student should experience Venice next?
#VeniceBiennale2026 #AfricanArt #ArtEducation #ContemporaryArt
29 Sep 2026
Walking the 61st Venice Biennale as an African, one thing is unmistakable: this is a story, told on purpose.
With In Minor Keys, the late Cameroonian curator Koyo Kouoh hands the world’s grandest art stage to Africa and its diaspora, and lets them speak in their own voice, with honesty and care. The West long ago borrowed from African art (ask Picasso). Here, the source speaks for itself.
Two works in the Arsenale hold the room. Nick Cave’s Amalgam (Plot) (2025) turns the body into a monument of survival, beauty grown from a history built to break it. South African artist Senzeni Marasela’s installation carries the quiet weight of those who endured systems designed to exploit them, and kept stitching life together anyway.
An ocean apart, one in America and one in South Africa, these artists speak in the same ancestral register. Neither the Middle Passage nor apartheid could sever that inheritance. Memory here is not nostalgia. It is resistance, passed down like a family name.
For collectors, the lesson is plain: a collection whose Africa still ends at the savanna has mistaken scenery for civilization. African creatives have long been in conversation with the world. The question is whether our institutions are listening.
Madam Koyo, you did not ask for a seat at the table. You built a new one and invited the world to listen, in minor keys. Umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu: we are, because you were. Siyabonga. Asante sana. May your legacy multiply.
In Minor Keys is on view at the 61st Venice Biennale through November 22, 2026. Go see it while you can.
#VeniceBiennale2026 #AfricanArt #AfricanCreatives #ContemporaryAfricanArt #AfricanDiaspora BiennaleArte2026
24 Sep 2026
Kaloki Nyamai’s @kalokinyamaistudio canvases at the Arsenale are simply stunning!
Imagine a painting that’s also a quilt — stitched together with sisal rope, burnt tire string, newsprint, and yarn, towering several stories high. Kaloki builds his figures the way memory actually works: partial, layered, never quite resolved. He’s not illustrating Kenyan history, he’s registering its aftershocks — grief, hope, belonging, all stitched and re-stitched like scar tissue. In a Biennale themed “In Minor Keys,” his work is some of the most physically overwhelming in the show, and one of the clearest arguments yet for why Kenya’s contemporary art deserves the main stage, not a footnote.
His pieces now live in collections like the Dallas Museum of Art @dallasmuseumart and the Norval Foundation @norvalfoundation — but what moves us more is Kamene Cultural & Research Center @kamene_centre , the Nairobi hub he founded to train and platform the next generation of Kenyan artists. Great art, and he’s building the room for more of it. 🇰🇪
The Venice Biennale runs through November 22, 2026
#KalokiNyamai #VeniceBiennale2026 #InMinorKeys #ContemporaryAfricanArt
#KenyanArt
17 Sep 2026
Just steps into the brick-lined halls of @palazzo_grassi Punta della Dogana, and I’m underwater. Lorna Simpson’s @lornasimpson Third Person is proof one artist can own a color — that cascading indigo-to-black blue is instantly, unmistakably hers.
Simpson broke through in the ‘80s reinventing what photography could interrogate: memory, race, erasure. In the 2010s she picked up a brush, and painting became her newest tool for the same questions. Even at wall-scale, every drip reads like a photograph still developing.
Her market has caught up too. Her 2018 painting Day for Night shattered her own auction record at $375K, fittingly at a sale benefiting the Studio Museum in Harlem @studiomuseum .
The piece I was most excited to see up close: Thin Bands, 2019, on loan from Dallas collectors. So much extraordinary art disappears into private vaults, never seen again, a real loss to art history. Collectors like these get it: collecting isn’t about ownership, it’s about stewardship. They don’t have to share what they hold, they choose to, so the work keeps living, keeps reaching people. That’s worth applauding.
The show runs through November 22, 2026 at Punta della Dogana in Venice — plenty of time to catch it if you’re headed that way.
#VeniceBiennale2026 #ContemporaryArt #lornasimpson #DiasporaArt #ArtInVenice
14 Sep 2026
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