Raw Material: 'Visions of Black Futurity'
b'Babette Thomas is searching for artistic Black utopias.\\nThomas is the host of the latest season of SFMOMA\'s Raw Material podcast. In their series, "Visions of Black Futurity," they look at representation, identity and different historical through-lines in Black Art. Woven into the podcast is the story of curator Evangeline "EJ" Montgomery,\\xa0a major player in the Black Arts scene. And EJ began her storied career in the 60s, right here in California, creating influential exhibits in the East Bay.\\nThis week on Rightnowish, we\'re featuring an episode that also dives into the stories of the famed Sci-Fi author Octavia Butler,\\xa0landscape painter Richard Mayhew, and local visual artist Sydney Cain aka Sage Stargate (who has also been featured on Rightnowish). Throughout, Thomas hones in on the question, \\u201cWhere will we host our Black art spaces of the future?\\u201d\\nListen to the full series on the "Raw Material" page.'