"Central to my vision of the modern historian is the willingness to transverse boundaries, cultivate interdisciplinary projects, and leverage different modes of engagement. There is no question in my mind of history’s centrality to a dialogue about our world."
Exhibition / Curation
“Afrofantastic: The Black Imaginary in Art, Literature, and Technology,” Co-Curator, African American Research Library and Culture Center, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, June -December 2023.
“Transfiguration: A Black Speculative Vision of Freedom,” Curator, Physical Exhibition, The Hand Art Center, Stetson University, January 10th- February 19th 2022.
“Black Kirby: An Afrofuturist Vision,” Curator, Physical Exhibition, Zora Neale Hurston National Museum of Fine Arts, Eatonville, Florida, January 8th- December 1st 2022.
“Beyond Black Panther: Visions of Afrofuturism in American Comics,” Curator, Virtual Exhibition, MSU Museum, February 1st -May 29th, 2021.
“Transfiguration: A Black Speculative Vision of Freedom,” Curator, Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum, January 22nd- April 25th, 2021.
“Mapping the Sonic Imagination,” Curator, Zora Neale Hurston National Museum, Eatonville, Florida, January 25th- December 31st, 2021.
“Justice for All: Social Justice in Comics,” Exhibition, Co-Curator, Residential College of the Arts and Humanities (RCAH) LookOut Gallery, March 2020, East Lansing, MI.
“A Past Unremembered: The Transformative Legacy of Black Speculative Imagination,” Exhibition, Co-curator, Zora Neale Hurston Museum of Fine Art, Eatonville, Florida, January 2020-January 2021.
“Comics and the City,” In conjunction with the 2020 MSU Comics Forum, Co-Curator, Michigan State University Library, East Lansing, MI, January 14th-February 29th.
“Take Off! Comic Artists from the Great White North.” In conjunction with the 2019 MSU Comics Forum, Co-Curator, Michigan State University Main Library, East Lansing, MI, January 14th-February 24th.
"Art in Odd Places Orlando: Noise" Exhibition, November 10-12, 2017, Co-Curator, Downtown Arts District, Orlando, Florida.
“AfroFantastic: Black Imagination and Agency in the American Experience,” Exhibition, January-April 2017, Curator, Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida.
“Beyond the Color Line,” Public History Exhibition, February-March 2017, Curator, Orlando City Hall Rotunda, Orlando, Florida.
“A legacy of Trauma” with “Heritage” by Aaron Turner in Southern Icons A to Z Curated by Rob McDonald, Donna Rosser, and Meryl Truett, SlowExposures, Whiskey Bonding Barn, Molena, Georgia, September 2016.
“The History That You Feel,” PeckaKucha 18, Orlando, Florida, (July 2016).
“The Confederate Flag: A Belated Burial in Florida,” Public Art Exhibition, 13 Flag Funerals Project, Orlando, (May 2015).
Julian C. Chambliss and Rachel Simmons, “Living Matter(s),” Dunedin Fine Arts Center, Dunedin, Florida, (September-December 2014).
Julian C. Chambliss and Rachel Simmons, “Future Bear,” 2014 Faculty Exhibition, Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Rollins College, Winter Park, FL(March-August 2014).
"Home to the Crossroads," Transit Interpretation Project (TrIP) Exhibition, Downtown Development Board Office Gallery, Orlando, Florida (June 2014).
Rachel Simmons, Future Bear, Past Imperfect #1, 2011, Screen Print with Pencil on Paper Mounted on Wood over Digital Paper. Text Written by Julian C. Chambliss, Telarian, Columbus State University, Corn Center for the Visual Arts, January 22nd-March 2nd, 2013.
“Project Mosaic: Space and Place in the Construction of Identity,” Poster and Photograph Exhibition, January 2013, Curator, Jacksonville Main Library. Jacksonville, Florida.
Julian C. Chambliss and Rachel Simmons, Future Bear, Issue #1, Past Imperfect Exhibition, Sequential SmArt, Juniata College, Huntingdon, PA, May 2012.
White Scripts and Black Supermen: Black Masculinities in Comic Book. DVD. Directed by Jonathan Gayles. 2012; South Burlington, VT: California Newsreel, 2012.
Julian Chambliss, “In the Stars: Visualizing the Third Place,” Poster Prints, 2012. Corridor Project: A Site Specific Contemporary Art Museum. Orlando, Florida.
“Superheroes and the U.S. Experience,” TEDx Orlando, Orlando Science Center, Orlando, FL. November 13, 2010.
Julian C. Chambliss and Denise K. Cummings, co-producers. "Exploring the Colony Theater." Orange TV, Orange County Scrapbook #2. Peer reviewed. 2008 National Bronze Telly Award.
Julian C. Chambliss and Denise K. Cummings, “Placing Memory, Exploring Context: Winter Park’s Colony Theatre,” Museum Exhibit at the Winter Park Historical Museum sponsored by the Florida Humanities Council Grant and United Arts of Central Florida Grant, 2006-2008.
Curator, Zora Neale Hurston Festival of the Arts and Humanities Afrofuturism Cycle (2020-2024)
Since 2020 I have been the curator for the annual academic conference of Zora Neale Hurston of the Festival of the Arts. Held in Eatonville, Florida, and across Orlando, Florida, the Association to Preserve Eatonville Community organizes the festival. As the curator of the cycle, I’ve worked closely with the Academics Committee of the festival to design an exploration of Afrofuturism. The scholars invited to the 2020 festival were the first interviews for the Voices of the Black Imaginary Oral History project. Those conversations were the basis for the fifth season of the Every Tongue Got to Confess Podcast. The festival activities also serve as the basis for an open -access digital archive of material to teach Afrofuturism. You can see that syllabus online here.