California African American Museum
World Without End: The George Washington Carver Project
Los Angeles, CA • opened 2024

World Without End: The George Washington Carver Project explores how contemporary artists and thinkers working today engage with Carver’s ideas and interests. Part of PST ART: Art & Science Collide, the exhibition includes Carver’s rarely seen paintings, drawings, laboratory equipment, and notebooks alongside contemporary artworks by thirty artists and artist collectives.

George Washington Carver was a pioneer of plant-based engineering and one of the nation’s earliest proponents of sustainable agriculture. Carver’s then-radical ideas—including organic fertilizers, crop rotation, and plant-based medicines and construction materials—are now recognized as the forerunners of modern conservation.

Both the exhibition and its forthcoming catalogue, which includes previously unpublished material documenting Carver’s life and work at Tuskegee University, reframe and center Carver’s lasting impact on art and science.

Developed with Picnic Design. Red Cape Studio was hired to design the physical layout and structures for the exhibition.