Founded in the summer of 2020 amidst a national groundswell of calls for racial justice, New Roots Art Collective is a group of four Tampa based artists committed to expanding African American representation in the arts. In Root’d at Gallery221, artists Langstn, Jaurice Moore, Ron Simmons and Briauna Walker share traditional, contemporary, aspirational and reimagined visions of black power. Through their work, the members of NRAC build on the legacy of previous generations of black artists, acknowledging and honoring their cultural history, while striving to create more space for African American artists to be able to center their work in pride, joy and free expression. — Emiliano Settecasi