Sep 5 - Oct 11, 2025
Opening: Fri, Sep 5, 6-8 pm
the CARR center
15 E. Kirby Street, Detroit 48202
Exploring the mirroring power of artist and viewer through the lens of the Black Queer experience.
Affirming personal agency, intimacy, community, and belonging.
Curated by patrick burton
and Wayne Northcross
Produced by Mighty Real/Queer Detroit
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Meet the Artists & Curators
Saturday, September 6 at 2 pm,
at the CARR center
Join the exhibition’s curators and participating artists for a conversation exploring the themes of In the Life: Black Queerness—Looking Back, Moving Forward. This program offers an in-depth look at the curatorial vision behind the exhibition and the creative practices that bring its ideas to life.
PARTICIPATING ARTISTS
A short film program curated by Billy Gérard Frank
Saturday, September 20 at 7 pm,
at the CARR center Admission: Free
15 E. Kirby Street, Detroit 48202
Still from Carnival Queen © Sekiya Dorsett
Queer Diasporic Horizons
This curated selection of Queer short films explores urgent themes of belonging, exile, and migration. Through poetic, intimate, and critically engaged narratives, the program highlights diasporic voices across the Global diasporas-unfolding personal and collective stories of displacement, Queer becoming, and the search for home. Each film challenges borders: geographic, cultural, and emotional, while centering the resilience and fluidity of Queer identity in motion.
Never Stop Shouting
by Abdellah Taïa
The Distance of Time
by Carlos Ormeño Palma
I was Never Really Here
by Gabriel B. Arrahnio and Valery Gabriel Bihina
Carnival Queen
by Sekiya Dorsett
the CARR center
the CARR center leverages the essence of the African American cultural experience to inspire, entertain, challenge, and educate. It is a place where artists, across all disciplines, and community come together.
15 E. Kirby Street
Detroit, Michigan
Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday 12 – 5:00 PM
Friday : 12 – 8:00 PM
“One of the things that I’ve committed to doing as a multidisciplinary artist is to continue to paint these people who were made invisible.”
— Pamela Sneed