Fog Design And Art Fair 2025

A platform for contemporary design and art that shifts, morphs, and reveals itself through multiple forms and dimensions.

Schedule:

1:00: Liberatory Practices: Cultivating Sovereign Interiors
Chantal Hildebrand, artist
Key Jo Lee, Chief of Curatorial Affairs and Public Programs, Museum of the African Diaspora
Cheryl R. Riley, artist and furniture designer
Moderated by Essence Harden, independent curator; Co-Curator, Made in LA 2025, The Hammer Museum

Join us for an inspiring conversation that explores the intersection of art, activism, and Black liberation through the lens of domestic space. In this talk, artists Cheryl R. Riley and Chantal Hildebrand will discuss how they infuse their work with principles of liberation, drawing on the enduring necessity for Black people to cultivate intimate, protective spaces that nurture joy, rest, and revolutionary potential. In conversation with curators Key Jo Lee and Essence Harden, the artists will discuss how their personal and artistic practices harness the transformative power of space in the fight against systemic oppression.

The talk will be centered around the exhibition Liberatory Living: Protective Interiors and Radical Black Joy, which highlights works that envision domestic spaces as sites of resistance, rest, and radical joy. Featuring furniture, lighting, and textile designs, artworks, and installations, the exhibition explores how we might create spaces to dream, gather, play, and imagine new possibilities for liberation. With references to bell hooks’ concept of “homeplace" and Elizabeth Alexander’s notion of the “Black interior," the exhibition presents a powerful reimagining of the domestic as a site of both political resistance and personal empowerment.

3:00: Weaving Images/Moving Paintings: Bay-Area artists Miguel Arzabe and Kota Ezawa in conversation with Natasha Boas

Miguel Arzabe, artist
Kota Ezawa, artist

Moderated by Natasha Boas, independent curator

In this engaging conversation with two celebrated Bay-Area artists who work in video, drawing, painting, and translating forms, we will traverse a wide range of subjects such as transculturality, making sense of place, abstracting representational source images, migration and sports and more

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