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Malene Barnett s plate is full. When she isn t traveling between her Caribbean-inspired home in New York City and Temple University in Philadelphia, where she s completing an MFA in ceramics, she s exploring the future of dwellings for Black families through Obsidian, a first-of-its-kind concept house.
The project is seminal for the Black Artists + Designers Guild, the nonprofit she founded with an unapologetic mission of carving out space for Black design talent. The guild is not about, how are we going to show up in your space? My point was, we don t need your space to show up. That s why we created our own, she says.