Streetlight Gallery’s inaugural exhibition, A Call Home, is both an invitation and a celebration—a public call to New Afrikan (Black) and African artists rooted in the Bay Area. This exhibition honors the home as a foundational space: a site of imagination, identity, collective memory and action—and ultimately material change.

For many New Afrikan (Black) and African artists and families, the home serves as the container where creative journeys first take root. It becomes a place to imagine and build new worlds—shaped by the colors on the walls, the stories passed across generations, and the shared responsibility of caring for one another. The home is often the first space where we practice self-determination, using what we have to reflect who we are and envision what could be. The home is often represented as a place of rest. And though that still holds true, the home is where one begins to mold their reality.

Featured artists have approached reimagining the realities of Africans across the diaspora in multifaceted ways. Whether it's reimagining how we pass on matriarchal knowledge, or transforming functional home pieces into tools for world-building, each artist is using their practice as a way to shift reality—for themselves and for those around them. Their work reflects a deep commitment to using art not only as expression, but as a method of imagining new possibilities for all African identities.