Artist Spotlights
Our curated blog posts invite you to journey with us, delving into our exhibitions, events, and the gifted artists who are shaping the art narrative of the Global African Diaspora.
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Weekly Artist Feature | Luana Vitra
Luana Vitra is a Brazilian multidisciplinary artist whose work spans sculpture, installation, drawing, and performance. Drawing from Afro-Brazilian spirituality and her upbringing in the mining landscapes of Minas Gerais, Brazil, Vitra transforms raw materials like iron, clay, and soot into charged sculptural forms. Her practice reimagines tools, amulets, and ritual objects as vessels for ancestral memory, decolonial healing, and spiritual resistance.
Weekly Artist Feature | Luana Vitra
Luana Vitra is a Brazilian multidisciplinary artist whose work spans sculpture, installation, drawing, and performance. Drawing from Afro-Brazilian spirituality and her upbringing in the mining landscapes of Minas Gerais, Brazil, Vitra transforms raw materials like iron, clay, and soot into charged sculptural forms. Her practice reimagines tools, amulets, and ritual objects as vessels for ancestral memory, decolonial healing, and spiritual resistance.
Weekly Artist Feature | Luana Vitra
Luana Vitra is a Brazilian multidisciplinary artist whose work spans sculpture, installation, drawing, and performance. Drawing from Afro-Brazilian spirituality and her upbringing in the mining landscapes of Minas Gerais, Brazil, Vitra transforms raw materials like iron, clay, and soot into charged sculptural forms. Her practice reimagines tools, amulets, and ritual objects as vessels for ancestral memory, decolonial healing, and spiritual resistance.
Weekly Artist Feature | Luana Vitra
Luana Vitra is a Brazilian multidisciplinary artist whose work spans sculpture, installation, drawing, and performance. Drawing from Afro-Brazilian spirituality and her upbringing in the mining landscapes of Minas Gerais, Brazil, Vitra transforms raw materials like iron, clay, and soot into charged sculptural forms. Her practice reimagines tools, amulets, and ritual objects as vessels for ancestral memory, decolonial healing, and spiritual resistance.
Weekly Artist Feature | William Pajaud
William Pajaud was a New Orleans–born artist and curator whose expressive watercolors honored the beauty, resilience, and spirituality of African American life. Merging Southern memory with modernist form, his work depicted jazz funerals, street scenes, and Black womanhood with lyrical warmth.
Weekly Artist Feature | William Pajaud
William Pajaud was a New Orleans–born artist and curator whose expressive watercolors honored the beauty, resilience, and spirituality of African American life. Merging Southern memory with modernist form, his work depicted jazz funerals, street scenes, and Black womanhood with lyrical warmth.
Weekly Artist Feature | William Pajaud
William Pajaud was a New Orleans–born artist and curator whose expressive watercolors honored the beauty, resilience, and spirituality of African American life. Merging Southern memory with modernist form, his work depicted jazz funerals, street scenes, and Black womanhood with lyrical warmth.
Weekly Artist Feature | William Pajaud
William Pajaud was a New Orleans–born artist and curator whose expressive watercolors honored the beauty, resilience, and spirituality of African American life. Merging Southern memory with modernist form, his work depicted jazz funerals, street scenes, and Black womanhood with lyrical warmth.
Weekly Artist Feature | Isaac Julien CBE
Isaac Julien CBE is a visionary British filmmaker and installation artist whose powerful works blend cinema, choreography, and archival imagery to confront colonial legacies, Black identity, and social justice. Through richly layered visual storytelling, Julien transforms art into a space of resistance, remembrance, and radical possibility.
Weekly Artist Feature | Isaac Julien CBE
Isaac Julien CBE is a visionary British filmmaker and installation artist whose powerful works blend cinema, choreography, and archival imagery to confront colonial legacies, Black identity, and social justice. Through richly layered visual storytelling, Julien transforms art into a space of resistance, remembrance, and radical possibility.
Weekly Artist Feature | Isaac Julien CBE
Isaac Julien CBE is a visionary British filmmaker and installation artist whose powerful works blend cinema, choreography, and archival imagery to confront colonial legacies, Black identity, and social justice. Through richly layered visual storytelling, Julien transforms art into a space of resistance, remembrance, and radical possibility.
Weekly Artist Feature | Isaac Julien CBE
Isaac Julien CBE is a visionary British filmmaker and installation artist whose powerful works blend cinema, choreography, and archival imagery to confront colonial legacies, Black identity, and social justice. Through richly layered visual storytelling, Julien transforms art into a space of resistance, remembrance, and radical possibility.
Weekly Artist Feature | Firelei Báez
Firelei Báez is a Dominican-American artist whose lush, intricate paintings breathe new life into historical narratives. Drawing from Caribbean folklore, Black feminist theory, and colonial archives, Báez creates worlds where mythology and memory collide—centering diasporic identities and reconfiguring the past through a radical, transformative lens.
Weekly Artist Feature | Firelei Báez
Firelei Báez is a Dominican-American artist whose lush, intricate paintings breathe new life into historical narratives. Drawing from Caribbean folklore, Black feminist theory, and colonial archives, Báez creates worlds where mythology and memory collide—centering diasporic identities and reconfiguring the past through a radical, transformative lens.
Weekly Artist Feature | Firelei Báez
Firelei Báez is a Dominican-American artist whose lush, intricate paintings breathe new life into historical narratives. Drawing from Caribbean folklore, Black feminist theory, and colonial archives, Báez creates worlds where mythology and memory collide—centering diasporic identities and reconfiguring the past through a radical, transformative lens.
Weekly Artist Feature | Firelei Báez
Firelei Báez is a Dominican-American artist whose lush, intricate paintings breathe new life into historical narratives. Drawing from Caribbean folklore, Black feminist theory, and colonial archives, Báez creates worlds where mythology and memory collide—centering diasporic identities and reconfiguring the past through a radical, transformative lens.
Weekly Artist Feature | Carlos Martiel
Carlos Martiel is a bold Afro-Cuban performance artist whose visceral, body-centered works confront systems of power, colonialism, and racial injustice. Using his own body as a medium, Martiel stages powerful acts of endurance that expose political and social violence—transforming pain into protest and the personal into the political.
Weekly Artist Feature | Carlos Martiel
Carlos Martiel is a bold Afro-Cuban performance artist whose visceral, body-centered works confront systems of power, colonialism, and racial injustice. Using his own body as a medium, Martiel stages powerful acts of endurance that expose political and social violence—transforming pain into protest and the personal into the political.
Weekly Artist Feature | Carlos Martiel
Carlos Martiel is a bold Afro-Cuban performance artist whose visceral, body-centered works confront systems of power, colonialism, and racial injustice. Using his own body as a medium, Martiel stages powerful acts of endurance that expose political and social violence—transforming pain into protest and the personal into the political.
Weekly Artist Feature | Carlos Martiel
Carlos Martiel is a bold Afro-Cuban performance artist whose visceral, body-centered works confront systems of power, colonialism, and racial injustice. Using his own body as a medium, Martiel stages powerful acts of endurance that expose political and social violence—transforming pain into protest and the personal into the political.
Weekly Artist Feature | Tau Lewis
Tau Lewis is a visionary Jamaican-Canadian artist whose hand-sewn sculptures and assemblages transform discarded materials into spiritual testaments of Black identity, healing, and ancestral memory. Rooted in diasporic traditions, her work honors the resilience and creativity of Black communities through tender, otherworldly forms.
Weekly Artist Feature | Tau Lewis
Tau Lewis is a visionary Jamaican-Canadian artist whose hand-sewn sculptures and assemblages transform discarded materials into spiritual testaments of Black identity, healing, and ancestral memory. Rooted in diasporic traditions, her work honors the resilience and creativity of Black communities through tender, otherworldly forms.
Weekly Artist Feature | Tau Lewis
Tau Lewis is a visionary Jamaican-Canadian artist whose hand-sewn sculptures and assemblages transform discarded materials into spiritual testaments of Black identity, healing, and ancestral memory. Rooted in diasporic traditions, her work honors the resilience and creativity of Black communities through tender, otherworldly forms.
Weekly Artist Feature | Tau Lewis
Tau Lewis is a visionary Jamaican-Canadian artist whose hand-sewn sculptures and assemblages transform discarded materials into spiritual testaments of Black identity, healing, and ancestral memory. Rooted in diasporic traditions, her work honors the resilience and creativity of Black communities through tender, otherworldly forms.
