‘Black Panther’ specialty jeweler Douriean Fletcher gets major solo show at MAD

Douriean Fletcher, who earned acclaim as the specialty jeweler for Marvel’s Black Panther series, has landed a major solo show at New York’s Museum of Art and Design that documents her contributions to Afrofuturism.

The show, titled “Douriean Fletcher: Jewelry of the Afrofuture,” is on view at MAD through March 15. It presents 75 works and personal items from Fletcher’s collection and was curated by Sebastian Grant, who led a recent group tour attended by Urgent Matter.

Grant said the show is organized into three sections, beginning with her formative years and the work that pushed her into her designing era, followed by a section on her film work and then her most recent creations from her independent practice.

“We want to have a bigger conversation around African American identity, and also just a bigger term of Afrofuturism, which Douriean is highly aligned with since Black Panther, of course, being one of the main Afrofuturist movies,” Grant said.