Channeling art as a technology of connection

Founded by artist Devin Osorio and curator Emma Nuzzo, Tomorrow’s Ancestors is an initiative using Osorio’s studio practice as an engine for participatory projects that dissolve the line between fine art and community practice.

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The Wall

The Wall is a community-authored mural project chronicling the Dominican diaspora to Washington Heights through spiritual histories.

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Updates

Partnership with The Met

Devin Osorio and Tomorrow’s Ancestors present What We Carry Forward, a participatory ofrenda for this year’s Dia de Muertos at The Met Cloisters.

We invite community to join us for a series of workshops to create the ofrenda together, creating our collective offerings for the people, places and traditions we wish to remember.

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1202 Magazine — “Tomorrow’s Ancestors”

Tomorrow’s Ancestors was featured in 1202 Magazine, which described the project as a “creative community lab” transforming a Harlem apartment into a space for collective reflection, artistic experimentation, and community care.

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  • We want to model a way of making murals in New York that demonstrates the value of creative labor and generates new forms of dialogue — and to build a cohort of young creatives who will carry this practice into their own communities, continuing to produce public, researched, community-based works long after this wall is finished.

    Devin Osorio
    Artist

  • As someone who’s moved through traditional art spaces, I know how frighteningly easy it is to get swept into the fine art world’s currents of elitism and narcissism. Tomorrow’s Ancestors offered something far more honest: a return to intimacy, interdependence, and the quiet radicalism of shared presence.

    Sue Ariza
    1202 Magazine