The Black Power Tarot Exhibition

Verge Center for the Arts is proud to present The Black Power Tarot exhibition and related programs in Sacramento. Birthed from a series of dreams that came to the vastly creative musician, artist and writer King Khan (Arish Ahmad Khan), the Black Power Tarot arose from personal interest in reading and interpreting the cards during the intensive experience of scoring the documentary film The Invaders. Khan collaborated with Chilean-French filmmaker and spiritual guru Alejandro Jodorowsky and Belfast-based designer Michael Eaton to create the deck featuring likenesses of 26 African American archetypes. Eaton, artist for the Game of Thrones television series, worked with Philippe Camoin, the direct heir of the last of Tarot de Marseille printers in Marseille, France to reconstruct a new version of the deck based on the original Tarot de Marseille from the 1760s. Verge is delighted to bring this work to Sacramento and will be hosting a screening of The Invaders on February 16th, followed by a Q&A with Khan and John B Smith, one of the original organizers of The Invaders.