Building discourse around contemporary Black art.
Nikita Gale & Mandy Harris Williams
In Conversation
About the Conversation
Nikita Gale and Mandy Harris Williams were the Fall 2021 guests of The Black Embodiments Studio Artist + Writer Initiative. Over the course of several months, they embarked on studio visits and conversations about their practices, with the specific goal of helping Williams develop two new pieces of writing about Gale’s practice. In this conversation, they work through some keywords that animate their thinking, from ruins, to preservation, to what Gale calls “the feminine urge to refuse to refurbish.”
Public Programming
Lisa Jarrett
Current Resident
Phenotyped (2024)
Lisa Jarrett presents new work as part of our public art project, Current Resident, wherein black artists are commissioned to research and develop art that is mailed to all residents of distinct Seattle zip codes. Jarrett’s work is included in a shared mail package sent to 24,000 residents of 98122. The artist thinks through the intersections of kinship, beauty, and Black culture to “understand and suggest how identities are constructed, how they are maintained, and how they shift over time.”
Issue 7
2023-2024
Newest Journal
Our newest edition of A Year in Black Art was edited by Camille Gallogly Bacon and designed by Sebastien Pierre.