A Special Musical Performance by TR7 and Jamaaladeen Tacuma | Thurs. Jan 15, 2026 | 6:30 – 8:00 pm ET | In-person

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Join us for a special musical performance celebrating the current exhibition, A Usable Past: Reflections of a Nation and Its Inheritance, featuring artists Taji Ra’oof Nahl (TR7) and Jamaaladeen Tacuma. The performance will echo themes of cultural identities inherited through family or migration, the building of new legacies within a heterogeneous society, the fragility of democratic ideals, and the failures of systems that promise unity, liberty, and self-governance.

About the Artists Taji Ra’oof Nahl (TR7) is a Philadelphia-based conceptual artist whose practice merges sculpture, sound, performance, and experimental cinema into a site-responsive method he calls Field Trips to Staged Productions. A 2024 Guggenheim Fellow in Fine Arts, his work explores civic infrastructures, ecological intelligence, Islamic cosmology, and African American intellectual lineage. His ongoing Abstract Dynamics series—often realized as duo projects—extends this approach through live scoring, moving-image presentation, and spatial activation. TR7 is the founder of Ra’oof Atelier, Channel TR7, Adam Vocabulary Club, and The Other Sounds of Philadelphia.