Echoes of Home
The AnkhLave International Artist Exchange: Kenya Edition
Curated by Dario Mohr
Exhibition dates: February 27 – March 8, 2026
Opening Reception: March 5, 2026
Open Hours: Friday-Sunday 12-4pm, or by appointment
Exhibition Overview
The AnkhLave International Artist Exchange: Kenya Edition comprises two international initiatives designed to foster cross-cultural dialogue and artistic exchange.
The first, the 2nd annual AnkhLave African Indigenous Mural Project, features two Kenya-based artists, Wanjiku Nderitu and Linda Daisy, whose works were documented on-site by Curator, Founder, and Director Dario Mohr, then translated into murals that are now installed outside the Old Stone House along the Washington Park fenceline at 4th Avenue and Third Street in Brooklyn.
The second component, Echoes of Home, brings together 31 US-based Black artists presenting two-dimensional works exploring the complexities of ancestral identity. From painters to mixed-media creators, the artists confront historical displacement and erasure experienced by their forebears, reimagining identities once suppressed or obscured. Each artwork forms a dialogue between the artists’ present selves and the echoes of their ancestral pasts, rendered through vibrant color, symbolic imagery, and compelling storytelling. Originally exhibited in Kenya, the birthplace of many African diasporic lineages, these initiatives are a journey back to cultural heritage, history, and self.
FEATURED ARTISTS:
Adar Howard, Alora Bess, Britt Sadé, Bryan Pettigrew, Byron Lupo Smith, Chris Watts, Christyl Singer, DaQuane Cherry, Darian Deshawn Stewart, Darlene Deloris, Dominique Dorvil, Fidelis Awuya Izekor, Garry Grant, George Larkins, Ifeoma Igwe, Jhoanny Nunez, Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow, Kay Poema, Khaila Batts, Kraig Blue, Laurel Richardson, Lisa Bowers, Love Aritus, M. Scott Johnson, Malika Victor, Michael K. Johnson, Rafaelina Tineo, Raymond Pinto, Shaira Chaer, Steeven Nelson, and Trasonia Abbott
Enjoy this virtual tour slide show of the exhibition, photographed by Etienne Frossard.
“Echoes of Home” exhibition at the Old Stone House 
“Echoes of Home” exhibition at the Old Stone House 
“Echoes of Home” exhibition at the Old Stone House 
“Echoes of Home” exhibition at the Old Stone House 
“Echoes of Home” exhibition at the Old Stone House 
“Echoes of Home” exhibition at the Old Stone House 
“Echoes of Home” exhibition at the Old Stone House 
“Echoes of Home” exhibition at the Old Stone House 
“Echoes of Home” exhibition at the Old Stone House 
“Echoes of Home” exhibition at the Old Stone House 
“Echoes of Home” exhibition at the Old Stone House 
“Echoes of Home” exhibition at the Old Stone House 
“Echoes of Home” exhibition at the Old Stone House 
“Echoes of Home” exhibition at the Old Stone House 
“Echoes of Home” exhibition at the Old Stone House 
“Echoes of Home” exhibition at the Old Stone House 
“Echoes of Home” exhibition at the Old Stone House
Adar Howard
Contemplation
Paper and collage
30.48cm x 40.64cm (12in x 16in), 2025
Adar Howard
The Way Home
Digital Photo
30.48cm x 40.64cm (12in x 16in), 2021
Alora Bess
Inner workings
Acrylic on canvas, fine art giclee print
30.48cm x 40.64cm (12in x 16in), 2023
Alora Bess
Working out the kinks
Acrylic on canvas, fine art giclee print
40.64cm (16in x 20in), 2023
Britt Sadé
Pour! Until the water runs clean
Photography
20.32cm x 25.4cm (8in x 10in), 2023
Bryan Pettigrew
Celestial
Mixed-media collage
36.83cm x 30.48cm (14.5in x 12in), 2025
Byron Lupo Smith
Family
Watercolor
13.97cm x 17.78cm (5.5in x 7.5in), 2024
Byron Lupo Smith
Over The Edge
Oil on canvas, 45.72cm x 60.96cm (18in x 24in), 2023
Chris Watts
COSMIC JUSTICE: THE LIBERATION OF TRUTH & RIGHTEOUSNESS
Acrylic On Canvas
|91.44cm x 76.2cm (36in x 30in), 2024
Christyl Singer
Minnie”, Recycled Textiles and Fake Hair, 14″x26″ (35.56 x 66), 2023
DaQuane Cherry
BE WHERE YOUR FEET ARE vol I
Acrylic on canvas, 40cm x 50.8 (16in x 20in)
Darian Deshawn Stewart
Black Armor 1
Oil, Beads, Rhinestones, and fabric on canvas, 20.32cm x 25.4cm (8in x 10in), 2023
Darian Deshawn Stewart
Black Armor 2
Oil, Beads, Rhinestones, and fabric on canvas, 20.32cm x 25.4cm (8in x 10in), 2023
Darian Deshawn Stewart
Black Armor 3
Oil, Beads, Rhinestones, fabric, on canvas, 20.32cm x 25.4cm (8in x 10in), 2023
Darlene Deloris
Yetunde
Print of Acrylic, Glitter, & Photography on Canvas, 48.26cm x 31.75cm (19inx12.5in)
Dominique Dorvil
Still Standing
Acrylic
30.48cm x 30.48cm (12in x 12in)
Fidelis Ayuwa Izekor
Native
Oil on canvas, 36X18, 2021
Fidelis Ayuwa Izakor
Ku am mbég
Oil on canvas, 38.1cm x 38.1cm (15in x 15in), 2023
Garry Grant
The Open Gates of Tassort Ruins I
Mixed media with metal leaf on handmade paper
22.86cm x 30.48cm (9in x 12in), 2019
George Larkins
Meditations: Gods & Spirits
Stills from digital video 4k
40.64cm x 59.8cm (16in x 20in), 2023
Ifeoma Igwe
I’ve Been Here Before
Print of mixed media
20.32cm x 20.32cm (8in x 8in), 2025
Ifeoma Igwe
“Untitled”
Print of mixed media, 20.32cm x 20.32cm (8in x 8in), 2025
Jhoanny C. Nunez Felipe
The Lechón
Silkscreen print
40.64cm x 50.8cm (16in x 20in), 2024
Kay Poema
The Year of Poema Blooming
Digital art
40.64cm x 50.8cm (16in x 20in)
Khaila Batts
Cool Autumn Blues
Screen print on paper
20.32cm x 25.4cm (8in × 10 in), 2022
Kraig Blue
Queen Exalted Mother Blue
Lustre print, 50.8cm x 76.2cm (20in x 30in), 2023
Laurel Richardson
Door of No Return
Photo collage on paper
50.8cm x 76.2cm (20in x 30in), 2025
Lisa Bowers
Unwoven History
Oil Pastel on Canvas, 45.72cm x 24.13cm (18in x 9.5in)
Lisa Bowers
Swamp Houses
Screenprint
57.15cm x 38.1cm ( 22.5 in x 15 in)
Love Aritus
Bountiful Harvest
Watercolor, gouache, and in on paper, 35.56cm x 55.88cm (14in x 22in), 2025
Love Aritus
Warrior Spirit
Ink on paper, 36.195cm x 56.515cm (14.25in x 22.25in), 2024
M. Scott Johnson
The Oracle of Cabrini Green
Digital photo of marble and gold sculpture, 33.02cm x 48.26cm (13in x19in), 2025
Malika Victor
Floral
Gouache on watercolor paper
27.94cm x 35.56cm (11in x 14in), 2020
Myke Johnson
SANKOFA’S QUEST
Acrylic on Canvas, 20×16 2023
Myke Johnson
PRINCIPLES OF KWANZAA
Acrylic on Canvas, 16×20 2019
Rafaelina Tineo
Toussaint L’ouverture
Print of acrylic on canvas
50.8cm x 50.8cm (20in x 20in), 2019
Raymond Pinto
Cross Cultures
Etchings
33.02cm x 50.8cm (13in x 20in), 2025
Raymond Pinto
Untitled, 2024
11”x17”
Raymond Pinto
Untitled, 2023
11”x17”
Steeven Nelson
Eye in the Sky / You Call It
Acrylic on canvas. 30cm x 30cm (12in x 12in), 2025
This exhibition is made possible, in part, by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.
