Spring 2020
Celestia Morgan
Celestia Morgan, a conceptual photographer and sculptor living in Birmingham, AL, captures systems of inequality and justice.
Chase Hall
With his paintings, sculptures, and photographs, Chase Hall has set himself on a journey to mine the gap between the intimacies of Black life and the traces of psychopathology that gives the appearance of White supremacy an uneasy palatability.
Crystal Z Campbell
Crystal Z Campbell collapses the past and present to historically contextualize the legacy of the theater and the physicality of the crumbling film as a site of destruction and fortitude.
Tariku Shiferaw
Unabashedly confronting issues related to racial identity, Tariku Shiferaw employs an obstinately formalist language of geometric abstraction in his practice to unpack the precariousness of contemporary Black life and celebrate the cultural production of Black people.
nora chipaumire: Radical Space
New modalities of appearance and production for the Black body within performative spaces.
Randy Ford: How To Pave a Street for Queens
A conversation about creating and protecting spaces for queer and trans people of color.
Kevin Young: The Opposite of a Hoax
On the racialized history of truth, fiction, and hoax.
Dread Scott: Beyond History
Reporting as a performance observer and implicated participant.
The Moment Is Not Sufficient
“Black art” is a varied concept. The way we define the phrase is tied to the way we think about American identity and who has the ability to claim it.
Toward a Monumental Black Body
The Black body has been objectified and used to incite terror, just as it has been used to revise and shift narratives. To address the growing call for diverse representation in public space, the question is: can artists succeed where the state fails?