Black Creativity 2025 - FEB 2025 / Black History Month: African Americans & Labor Exhibition: Feb 8 - 28, 2025 Reception: Feb 16 / 3-5pm Guest Curator: Faith Evans The Black History Month theme for 2025, African Americans and Labor, according to the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH®), focuses on the "various and profound ways that work and working of all kinds - free and unfree, skilled, and unskilled, vocational and voluntary, intersect with the collective experiences of Black people." Islip Arts Council invited Black creatives to contemplate how work of all kinds influenced Black history and culture in their daily lives. From the historical agricultural labor of enslaved African Americans to entrepreneurship in Black communities, Black people's work has been transformational throughout the U.S., Africa, and the Diaspora. ARTISTS Daevon Byron Waldo Cabrera Jamel Carroll Tyrone Copeland Faith Evans Carol Folds Jon Martinez Frenal Mezilas Maiya Mulan Brittney S. Price Dr. Nichelle Rivers Ali Shama Cydney Wilson Sheniqua Young