"Hope is a Discipline"

“Hope is a Discipline” opens Friday, June 12, at the Community Artists’ Collective, 4111 Fannin, Suite 100A, with a reception at 6 p.m. Works by Li(sa E.) Harris, Lovie Olivia, Josie Pickens, Tay Butler, Mich Stevenson and Zsavon Butler trace the realities of Black life shaped by surveillance, control and abandonment. Co-curators Josie Pickens and Tay Butler have outlined care, resistance and imagination as ways to move toward liberation, connection and becoming freer and more whole. The exhibition takes it title from abolitionist organizer Mariame Kaba, who reminds us that hope is not passive.