08/17/2026
Fall Exhibition Announcement 📣
Black Artists' Networks Dialogue - BAND, the Gardiner Museum, and the Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD) are thrilled to announce After the Island, a landmark curatorial partnership exploring contemporary ceramic practices rooted in Caribbean histories, memory, and cultural transformation.
Presented across two exhibitions and two cities—Toronto and San Francisco—this collaboration brings together artists whose work examines migration, ornament, labour, ancestry, and the enduring impact of Caribbean cultural traditions across generations and geographies.
At MoAD, new and recent work by Sharon Norwood, Jacqueline Bishop, and PJ Anderson will be on view, while the Gardiner Museum will present work by Caribbean Canadian artists Sharon Norwood, PJ Anderson, Eddy Firmin, and Manuel Mathieu.
Throughout both presentations, vessels, decorative forms, sculptural installations, and ceramic surfaces become sites where histories are preserved, challenged, reimagined, and carried forward. Together, the exhibitions demonstrate how artists working with clay continue to create new forms of relation between past and present, homeland and diaspora, history and imagination.
📍 After the Island: Ornament and Ceramic Practice in the Jamaican Diaspora
Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD), San Francisco
September 30, 2026 – May 30, 2027
📍 After the Island: Caribbean Canadian Ceramics
Gardiner Museum, Toronto
October 9, 2026 – April 25, 2027
More details to come.
Image: PJ Anderson, Claw Forms #4, 2020, Terra sigillata
