Jerome Haferd of BRANDT : HAFERD, a local Black-led public art and architecture practice, has designed Sankofa, a new installation for Harlem’s Marcus Garvey Park. The work references Akan African folklore and displays the “mythology” of Marcus Garvey Park using digitally composed layers of archival images, along with other Harlem inspired motifs.
Sankofa is the first of several installations funded by the Mellon Foundation as a part of the Culture, Creativity, & Care Initiative at Marcus Garvey Park led by Harlem Grown, a nonprofit dedicated to educating youth on living healthy and sustainably.
The name Sankofa is derived from Akan African folklore and means
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