Friday, November 21, 2025
Design Showcase | 12:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Conversation | 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Hammonds House Museum
Making Meaning is an intimate conversation that explores design through the lens of furniture, textiles, and cultural memory. Featuring Aishah Rashied Hyman, the founder of Boddo, an emerging textile brand weaving together heritage and contemporary design and niCo Robinson, founder of House of Nambili furniture studio which crafts sculptural works that hold space and intention. Together, these visionaries reflect on how design in the Black home—both past and present—functions as a site of creativity, resistance, identity, and care. The conversation will focus on aesthetics, as well as values: what we hold, what we shape, and what we pass on.
The Design Showcase takes place on the 2nd Floor of the Hammonds House from 12:00 PM - 6:00 PM. The Conversation begins at 7:00 PM. This event is free with registration. Hammonds House Museum entrance fees are required.
Thriving Together Atlanta is a public art project dedicated to addressing inequality in healthcare through free events and activities. A collaboration between the City of Atlanta – Mayor’s Office of Cultural Affairs, the National Black Arts Festival, and Out of Hand Theater. The project serves as a model of how cross-sector partnerships can address the multifaceted issues affecting communities. The groundbreaking project was awarded a $1 million grant through the Bloomberg Philanthropies Public Art Challenge which brings together cities and their leaders, residents, and artists to develop temporary public art projects that address important civic issues in their communities.
To date NABF has presented the Thriving Together Atlanta Community Arts and Wellness Festival and produced two mural projects. Artist C. Flux Sing’s mural Old 4th, Forward to Victory uplifts the legacy and perseverance of Old Fourth Ward while Chloe Alexander’s The Light We Carry celebrates resilience and collective care in the West End. The final project, a mobile bus experience, launches in January 2026. The Mobile Bus Experience is produced in partnership with NEXT Atlanta and MARTA.
Visit the Thriving Together Atlanta website to stay up to date on upcoming events.
Additional funding has been contributed by Cousins Foundations, Gucci Changemakers, and South Arts. Support from the Black Leadership AIDS Crisis Coalition powered by AHF. Community partners include the Atlanta Beltline, Darwin Hotel, MARTA, NEXT Atlanta, Hammonds House Museum and Historic Mount Sinai Baptist Church.
