Exhibition – Gameform: Art/Play/Deconstruct by Diamond Beverly-Porter

About the event

Exhibition dates: October 15th – December 11th

Artist talk: Thursday October 16th, 4:30 PM with an opening reception to follow.

Gameform: Art/Play/Deconstruct is a solo exhibition by artist and game designer Diamond E. Beverly-Porter, exploring games as a formal artistic medium. Drawing on the historical and cultural legacies of Black people in the United States through embodied knowledge, Beverly-Porter fuses storytelling, game mechanics, environment design, and digital art as acts of epistemological resistance and Black feminist worldbuilding.

Her work centers Black women and girls as complex protagonists navigating sociopolitical realities, positioning her games and art as living archives of Black cultural production and Afrofuturism. Using play as a critical tool, she challenges reductive narratives and reclaims space for Black peoples’ complexity and joy.

Beverly-Porter’s character-driven, richly designed worlds invite audiences to engage with power, identity, and representation in digital spaces. As one of the few Black game developers in the industry, she creates the games she wished existed as a child—immersive spaces for cultural critique and storytelling.

An Assistant Professor in the Digital Technology and Culture Department at Washington State University and community arts advocate, Beverly-Porter’s work embodies resistance, creativity, and collective dreaming.