Founder

Karen Seneferu is one of the most thought provoking visual artists of our time. Born and raised in Oakland California, her childhood was fed by revolutionary politics and the Black Panther Party’s free breakfast program. She has dedicated her life to working as an educator and artivist. Self-taught in her artistic craft, Seneferu is obsessed with gathering information, imagery and ideas. Senefuru’s is grounded in the philosophy that space dictates meaning. What enters that space is dictated to by the meaning of the space or can change the meaning of the space.

As founder, Artistic Director, and curator of The Black Woman Is God, Seneferu seeks to transform the meaning of space for Black women, intergenerational artists. She is interested in these artists speaking and dialoguing with each other as a vehicle of change. She does this by having well known, emerging, and veteran artists in the same space to show the dynamics of their contributions to the historical legacy of Black women artists to the globe.