MoAD’s physical building may be closed due to the mandatory shelter-in-place, but you can still get your fill of art and artists of the African Diaspora. Each Wednesday at 1:00 pm PST, join MoAD staff members as we visit some of our favorite artists in their studios to see what they’re currently working on and how their work is changing as a result of the quarantine. This is a rare opportunity to hear from artists directly from their studios.

We will follow all talks with an audience Q&A.

‍Ed Ntiri is a writer, photographer specializing in portraiture, and filmmaker who has been based in the Bay Area since 2007. Born in New York to Ghanaian parents, Ntiri considers the ritual of making 35mm black-and-white images as a ceremony of light, chance, and memory, in which focus is less important than feeling. His work has been featured in Vice, WaxPoetics, the Oakland Museum, the Berkeley Art Museum and is he is a contributing artist in Artists Imagine Freedom: Art Works for Freedom, a benefit auction for Critical Resistance.

In 2017, Ntiri wrote and directed his first short film, Snow Mountain, which won audience choice awards at the SF Urban and Liberated Lens film festivals. His first feature, A Lo-Fi Blues, was awarded a SFFILM Rainin Grant for screenwriting in 2019. He is currently completing a SFFILM Film House Residency in 2020.

‍See a list of our upcoming In The Artists Studio features here.

Generous support for this project provided by Art Bridges and the Westridge Foundation

This series is supported by the Facebook Art Department, UNTITLED, Art Fairs and The Art Report.