Assata Goff

• I Am Because We Are •
2/28/2026 • Durham, NC • 100th Anniversary of Black History Month • • ❣️

Thank you for helping me with this project 🫶🏽

Imaginal Mycelium: A Solarpunk Portal & Dreamscape ✨🌀

I’ve been dreaming of this space for a long time. My first installation—real, rooted, and alive. Imagined it over and over. Built it four different times. Through hot days, heavy rain, and early mornings, my dad and I kept going—and it went up.

This is just the beginning. I’ll keep building on this vision and creating spaces for dreaming, healing, and reimagining what’s possible.

Deep gratitude to everyone who helped bring this to life:
for being there every step of the way.
for dropping everything to help me build version four in a week.
, , and kynita for pulling it all together with Goldie.
, , , , —thank you for showing up, lifting, drilling, scheming and grounding.

Huge thank you to my workshop leaders:
, , , — you all are amazing and truly made the space one of reflection, imagination, and dreaming through action.

And to —thank you for the space to do this work and be in community with Black artists reimagining environmental justice. Honored to be part of this fellowship.

And thank you for providing this space to foster relationships with the land and community in Durham

This dome is just one seed. There’s more to come 🌱

When lightning strikes🐦‍🔥
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🌿✨ Solar Sankofa will be on display at The Carrboro ArtsCenter until April 24th with the Down to Earth group exhibition about climate change, sustainability, and environmental stewardship through art! Check for more info!

Solar Sankofa reflects the past and manifests the future. 🌱 The skyline is the Durham I grew up with—one side upright, the other reversed—rooted in history yet shifting. Articles layered in the back highlight environmental injustices, especially around food equity. At the center is the future I dream of: sustainable stewardship of the land, solarpunk innovation, and eco-futurist possibility. The blue body with dried moss and water remind us—water holds memory, nourishes us, and sustains all life. 💧🌾✨

I created this piece for the .as.method exhibition Uproot: BIPOC Visions of Our Food System in 2024.

If you read all the way down here keep reading cuz I’m plugging in two events happening this month!🔌🗓️🪩
cs is organizing our second event, Comfort Creation, this Saturday, March 15th! 🧵🎨✨ This event is about rest, joy, and self-expression through art, music, and movement. Expect workshops, an open mic, and creative community vibes—all free and open to the public. Link in my bio for tickets!

On March 20th, I’m helping curate The Mustard Seed Collective: An Equinox Exhibition organized by .elmonique in Greensboro, NC! 🌻🍃 This event uplifts emerging artists and provides resources + professional connections. Check .collective for details!

I’ve been seeing so many events by artists for artists happening this month! If you have an event, exhibit, workshop, or anything else, drop your info! These spaces for expression, breathing, fun, and ease are necessary for our collective energy. Let’s support and show up for each other! 💛💭✨

No matter what happens, we will be okay, we will resist, we will create, we will thrive. “We have nothing to lose but our chains.” Ashé 😌

I created this installation piece a couple month ago with the focus on the intersection of voting rights, abortion, bodily autonomy and agricultural liberation in North Carolina for . This research re-emphasized how all of our struggles are connected. I was also reminded that we have all of the answers. We not new to this we true to this! So while I’m watching these votes being counted… I’m taking a deep breath (also making cookies) and continuing to take action towards our collective liberation.

Thank you to & kynita for helping me with this piece 💜✨
Poem reads:
Control of Our Uteri
Derived
On To***co Road
Partus Sequitur Ventrem
Ossified
Wagon Wheels
Of Time
Under Misletoe
Sealed Black Futures

🦋Throat chakra has been very open recently🦋 Talked with for the Pride issue of 🌈 and my family and I talked with Ruhama Wolle for 💙 I feel so much love and respect for the resilient shoulders I stand on, I hope it shines through my voice 🦋
I’m linking both articles in my bio, check out the other stories and powerful voices that are featured as well! We grow from listening to each other 😉💙

On my birthday this year I’m soaking up the New Moon, my 2nd Jupiter return and Venus return💖 -the girls who get it, get it- I’m full of love, hope, curiosity, dreams and excitement. It’s a beautiful feeling to have nothing to ask for and so much to be thankful for.

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Thank you for this magical photo!

This Saturday, December 10th join the 2022 Durham Art Guild Artists-in-Residents, & , to make a one-of-a-kind painting for the holidays❣️(Link In Bio)

PLUS bring your own artwork, sketchbooks, photography, and other creative talents to share with other youth painters during show-and-tell!

Limited capacity. 12 max sign ups per session

Additional information is on sign up sheet, LINK IN BIO❣️

Hand me a brush or a pencil and it will be magical 🧚🏾‍♂️💫

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Ready to show off your eerie-sistable talents on October 14th?🎃✨🎃
Sign up link in bio