QUENTIN VERCETTY

As a multi-award winning interdisciplinary creative, Quentin VerCetty is also one of the world’s leading Afrofuturist a-rtographers (artist-researcher-teacher practitioner). Creator of Toronto’s first monument of a person of African descent,

entitled Stepping Forward into History, which is a memorial to freedom seeker Joshua Glover, he is also the first artist to be commissioned by Carnegie Hall Foundation creating their Afrofuturism festival branding. Additionally, Quentin VerCetty is the founder and steward of the Black Speculative Arts Movement (BSAM) Canada and the founder and artistic producer of AstroSankofa Arts Initiatives.