Chris Simon knew he wanted to showcase Black excellence at Blk Swan, a hip new restaurant and bar in Harbor East. The only way the restaurant owner could imagine doing that was by decorating the space ...

A massive, groundbreaking Black art exhibition installed in 1971 in Wilmington will be recreated by the Delaware Art Museum next fall. “Afro-American Images 1971: The Vision of Percy Ricks” will ...

For Esohe and George Galbreath the art that fills nearly every wall of their three-story Atlanta home is about more than aesthetics. “We want to be good stewards of our story,” said Esohe Galbreath, ...

“Reading, specifically close reading, which is one of the literary critic’s primary modes of analysis, can feel strange,” says Provost and Dean of the Faculty Daphne Lamothe. “It’s very different from ...

Theaster Gates in Black Art In the Absence of Light (2021) Toward the end of Black Art: In the Absence of Light, Theaster Gates provocatively says, “Until we own the light, I’m not happy. Until we are ...

In the mid-1960s, as the revolutionary fervor of Black Power intensified, an Afrocentric aesthetic movement was brewing. Poet and playwright Amiri Baraka opened the Black Arts Repertory Theater in ...

In 1924, a young woman named Alma Thomas posed that question in her college yearbook. Thomas was the first graduate of Howard University’s newly formed department of art. Her groundbreaking abstract ...