As we approach the end of the year, we're taking time to reflect, look back, and give thanks to our wonderful community of artists.⠀ ⠀ Here's a #TBT of artists featured in The Studio Museum in Harlem's 2013–14 exhibition "The Shadows Took Shape." Borrowing its title from a poem by the jazz musician Sun Ra, whose visionary aesthetic—part sci-fi, part sorcery—was named Afrofuturism after his death, "The Shadows Took Shape" explored contemporary art through the lens of Afrofuturist aesthetics. Featuring work by recent Lea K. Green Artist Talk honoree and artist Sanford Biggers, Wein Prize recipients Derrick Adams, Cauleen Smith, and Robert Pruitt, and artists such as Wangechi Mutu, Laylah Ali, William Villalongo, and Saya Woolfalk, among many others, the exhibition was a landmark in the Studio Museum's history, expanding the Museum's exploration of blackness as subject matter.⠀ ⠀ Thank you to our artists, collaborators, curators, and thought-partners, passed and present, whose rigor and talent sparked intellectual inquiry and joy. You make us the place where Black art lives.⠀ ⠀ And if you're interested in learning more about "The Shadows Took Shape," the 160-page, fully illustrated exhibition catalogue, with twenty-nine artist entries and essays by the exhibition's curators, is still available at @studiostoreharlem. Head to our link in bio to shop!⠀ ⠀ #IntotheArchive #TheShadowsTookShape⠀ ⠀ —⠀ ⠀ Image: Participating artists in "The Shadows Took Shape." Photo: Christaan Felber. Courtesy The New Yorker⠀