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 | 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.
Weekly Artist Feature | Mickalene Thomas
Mickalene Thomas is a groundbreaking queer Black artist whose dazzling, rhinestone-studded portraits center Black women in all their strength, sensuality, and complexity. Drawing on art history, pop culture, and her own life, Thomas reclaims the visual narrative—challenging traditional notions of beauty and representation.
Weekly Artist Feature | Mickalene Thomas
Mickalene Thomas is a groundbreaking queer Black artist whose dazzling, rhinestone-studded portraits center Black women in all their strength, sensuality, and complexity. Drawing on art history, pop culture, and her own life, Thomas reclaims the visual narrative—challenging traditional notions of beauty and representation.
Weekly Artist Feature | Mickalene Thomas
Mickalene Thomas is a groundbreaking queer Black artist whose dazzling, rhinestone-studded portraits center Black women in all their strength, sensuality, and complexity. Drawing on art history, pop culture, and her own life, Thomas reclaims the visual narrative—challenging traditional notions of beauty and representation.
Weekly Artist Feature | Mickalene Thomas
Mickalene Thomas is a groundbreaking queer Black artist whose dazzling, rhinestone-studded portraits center Black women in all their strength, sensuality, and complexity. Drawing on art history, pop culture, and her own life, Thomas reclaims the visual narrative—challenging traditional notions of beauty and representation.
Weekly Artist Feature | Sophia Lacroix
Sophia Lacroix’s hyper-realistic paintings illuminate the everyday beauty and resilience of Haitian life. Through richly detailed scenes of markets, family, and tradition, her work preserves cultural memory and celebrates the strength of the Haitian spirit. With each piece, Lacroix invites viewers to witness the depth, vibrancy, and humanity of a community often overlooked.
Weekly Artist Feature | Sophia Lacroix
Sophia Lacroix’s hyper-realistic paintings illuminate the everyday beauty and resilience of Haitian life. Through richly detailed scenes of markets, family, and tradition, her work preserves cultural memory and celebrates the strength of the Haitian spirit. With each piece, Lacroix invites viewers to witness the depth, vibrancy, and humanity of a community often overlooked.
Weekly Artist Feature | Sophia Lacroix
Sophia Lacroix’s hyper-realistic paintings illuminate the everyday beauty and resilience of Haitian life. Through richly detailed scenes of markets, family, and tradition, her work preserves cultural memory and celebrates the strength of the Haitian spirit. With each piece, Lacroix invites viewers to witness the depth, vibrancy, and humanity of a community often overlooked.
Weekly Artist Feature | Sophia Lacroix
Sophia Lacroix’s hyper-realistic paintings illuminate the everyday beauty and resilience of Haitian life. Through richly detailed scenes of markets, family, and tradition, her work preserves cultural memory and celebrates the strength of the Haitian spirit. With each piece, Lacroix invites viewers to witness the depth, vibrancy, and humanity of a community often overlooked.
