RE:CLAIM Essays · 2026
This year, we reclaim the wonder.
Where the theme for the previous edition—Embrace the Wonder—invited our community to marvel at the brilliance already alive in African art and culture, RE:CLAIM asks something bolder of us: to take back what has been diluted, diminished, or told without our voice in the room. It is the second movement in the same renaissance. If wonder was the invitation, reclamation is the work. The theme also speaks to the imperative to revisit our claim to our endowment the way a subsequent mail or rebuttal to a publication calls attention and refers back to the original. It is following up with the greatness that already began.