Born Shamir Walters has spent years teaching the concept of Afrofuturism to kids. The Pittsburgh artist painted an Octavia Butler mural with students at Garfield Gardens and helped lead Afrofuturism-themed programming through the Assemble community arts hub.
Walters’ newest project, Everyday Afrofuturism, is the result of a years-long collaboration with Assemble and BOOM Concepts. The interactive sculpture, which debuted during the June Unblurred First Friday art crawl on Penn Avenue, occupies a hillside lot at the corner of North Winebiddle Street and Kincaid Street in Garfield.