AFROBOI // A Black Mind State
What:
AFROBOI // A Black Mind State is a debut solo exhibition by Melvin AC Howell — a bold, multidisciplinary exploration of Black identity, masculinity, memory, and resilience told through painting, sculpture, and dimensional form. Each piece carries its own story, its own texture, its own truth — while together they form a collective portrait of the Black experience through the emotional lens of a young Black boy becoming a man. At the heart of the work lives a single, defining symbol: the afro — not as hair, but as a crown representing strength, ancestry, royalty, and the beauty of existing unapologetically in Black skin. This exhibition is both deeply personal and unmistakably collective — a reckoning, a remembrance, and an evolving portrait of the Black mind state.
When x Where:
Friday June 5th, 2026
Noir Collective AVL
39 S Market St Suite C, Asheville, NC 28801
11:00am Opening