In 1994, cultural critic Mark Dery coined the term "Afrofuturism" to refer to "speculative fiction that treats African-American themes and addresses African-American concerns in the context of twentieth-century technoculture--and, more generally, African-American signification that appropriates images of technology and a prosthetically enhanced future." Dery's primary conceptualization of Afrofuturism was situated in Black people's relationship with science fiction and technology, but epistemologically, the term speaks to the future of Black people in general. In his theorizing of Afrofuturism, Dery (1994) questioned the possibility of the Black community even being able to imagine futures because of the intentional mass elimination of their past by Northern White Europeans. In this article, Joni Boyd Acuff introduces Afrofuturism as a futuristic philosophy for an art curriculum for Black existence.