Headdress XXI (2021) by Helina Metaferia. Courtesy of the artist and Addis Fine Art.
[...] On the side of a townhouse near the corner of Lafayette Avenue and Fort Greene Place in Brooklyn, at the future site of the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Art's sculpture garden, Helina Metaferia recently unveiled the first mural of Not a Monolith, a five-borough public art initiative. Metaferia's piece, "Headdress 21," is a towering image of a fellow artist, Wildcat Ebony Brown, crowned with a collage of civil rights imagery - an ode to Black female activism throughout history. [...]
