Muse 360 proudly announces the upcoming exhibition Of Yesterday + Tomorrow, opening June 26, 2025 through August 17, 2025, at The Peale Museum in Baltimore. This exhibition marks the culmination of the 2025 New Generation Scholars Young Artist Archival Fellowship (NGSYAA)—a transformative, long-standing initiative of Muse 360. Founded in 2004 by Sharayna Ashanti Christmas, Muse 360 is an intergenerational organization committed to radically developing Baltimore youth, empowering them to harness their voices and creative practices in pursuit of self-knowledge.

Since January, NGSYAA has offered young artists a rare opportunity to engage deeply with Black diasporic histories and archives, drawing from ancestral memory to inspire their creative inquiry. Through intensive archival research and artistic experimentation, fellows have refined their craft while cultivating the skills and vision to become cultural stewards and narrative shapers. NGSYAA is designed not only to cultivate strong artistic voices but also to foster the next generation of cultural workers—grounded in a praxis of care and intentionality.

This year’s cohort brings together a dynamic group of printmakers, theater artists, painters, filmmakers, and photographers, each immersed in archival research and personal inquiry. Over the course of six months, fellows participated in over 30 engagements—ranging from workshops and discussions to artist studio visits and institutional research—interrogating themes of ritual, reverence, ancestral memory, and radical pedagogy. In partnership with Afro Charities Archives, as well as visits to the Baltimore City Archives and Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, fellows activated archival materials as portals to reimagine lineage, resistance, and identity.