Humanities on the Edge Lecture Review: Saya Woolfalk
Fig. 1. Empathics dancing in the "Star Compulsion" formation Saya Woolfalk’s installations, performances, and multimedia work imagine the future in the terms of Afrofuturism, extending a tradition that includes “the music of Sun Ra and George Clinton and science-fiction novels by Samuel R. Delany and Octavia Butler” (Johnson). Jonathan Walz, Curator of American Art at the Sheldon Museum, said that her art encourages a dynamics of empathy, which is “needed now more than ever.”