Speed Salon: Talks + Theory | Negarra A Kudumu

Name: Speed Salon: Talks + Theory | Negarra A Kudumu
Start: 2026-06-17T17:00:00-04:00
End: 2026-06-17T19:00:00-04:00
Location: Speed Art Museum

Schedule

Wed Jun 17 2026 at 05:00 pm to 07:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Speed Art Museum | Louisville, KY

Speed Salon: Talks + Theory
A quarterly Wednesday for curious minds and cultural conversation
Cost: $20/non-member adult, $15/member adult, $5/student
Speed Salon brings together artists, scholars, filmmakers, and cultural thinkers for engaging talks and conversation. Each session features a presentation followed by Q&A, offering attendees the chance to think deeply, ask questions, and engage with contemporary ideas and creative work. The program is designed for adults, students, and those who enjoy focused discussion in a supportive environment.
Gallery admission is not included.
Speaker: Negarra A. Kudumu
Title: What Awaits Us will be, Black
What awaits Us is the moniker for the conceptual lens of the reimagination of the African Diasporic Art collection. Curatorial Assistant, Sirene Martin is engaging in a temporal exploration of Black culture from the continent to the diaspora. Inspired by the notion of time’s spirality, as set forth by the Bakongo peoples of central Africa, this collection will be understood within the collision of the past, present and future. Negarra’s lecture will be an astute expansion within this school of thought.
Negarra A. Kudumu is an independent scholar and curator of contemporary art. Her curatorial interests focus on Afro-Surrealism, Black Abstraction, contemporary art from the Pacific Northwest, Africa, South Asia, and their respective diasporas. Her scholarly interests focus on African Diasporic spiritual traditions of the Americas namely Palo Monte, Conjure (also known as Hoodoo), and Haitian Vodou. More recently, her interests have taken a turn towards philosophy (Hegel), Christian theology (Barth), and notions of wretchedness and betrayal (Fanon) as a way to better explain the conditions within which the aforementioned traditions developed, the particular environment they sought to intervene upon, and the specific category of tools they used to intervene upon said environment.