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A Jamaican Diaspora Exhibition Connects Ceramics Across Borders

By Social Storytellers Collective News Desk

October 11, 2026 · 1 min read

Three artists and three institutions are part of a collaboration examining how Caribbean culture travels through ceramics. The Museum of the African Diaspora’s exhibition page identifies PJ Anderson, Jacqueline Bishop, and Sharon Norwood in After the Island: Ornament and Ceramic Practice in the Jamaican Diaspora. The San Francisco presentation is scheduled from September 30, 2026, through May 30, 2027. Its partners are Toronto’s Black Artists’ Network in Dialogue and the Gardiner Museum. Together, the institutions developed two concurrent exhibitions exploring Caribbean diasporic ceramic practice. The collaboration treats cultural heritage as something carried and reshaped across generations and locations. That approach gives migration a place inside the interpretation of familiar objects, rather than treating heritage as confined to the place a family left. For audiences, the exhibition offers an opportunity to examine how material culture preserves memory while acquiring new meanings through movement.