CoatTails: Celebrating Black Life Through Style explores the material, symbolic, and performative dimensions of style within Black life. Drawing from the legacy of dandyism as both a cultural practice and a performance of self, the exhibition expands beyond tailored garments to consider the fabrics, textures, and inherited materials that communicate aesthetics and lived experiences of Black life. Here, style is not only worn but remembered, carried, burned, woven, and adorned.

From fiber works and assemblages to photography and archival collages, the artists featured engage with the rituals, histories, and tactile stories embedded in clothing and the domestic spaces surrounding them.

The opening fashion performance on April 23rd activates the gallery as a space where craftsmanship, performance, and contemporary creativity converge, celebrating both personal and collective narratives.