Latest News in Black Art features updates and developments in the world of art and related culture
From left, Willie Cole. | Photo by Zak Pontz, Courtesy of the artist; Torkwase Dyson. | Photo by Suzie Howell, Courtesy PACE Gallery; and Sanford Biggers. | Photo by Gioncarlo Valentine, Courtesy of the artist
AWARDS & HONORS
The National Academy of Design in New York announced the election of eight new eight new artists and architects. The class of 2023 academicians includes visual artists Sanford Biggers, Willie Cole, and Torkwase Dyson. (9/21) | More
In Syracuse, N.Y., Light Work announced 13 artists selected for its 2024 artist-in-residence program, including Jermaine Francis (United Kingdom), Cheryl Miller (Massachusetts), and Rashod Taylor (Missouri). Francis’s residency is sponsored by Autograph in London. (9/25) | More
Three women are recipients of Pérez Art Museum Miami’s fourth annual Caribbean Cultural Institute Fellowship: Trinidadian interdisciplinary artist Shannon Alonzo; Ontario, Canada-based Farihah Aliyah Shah, a lens-based artist of Guyanese descent; and Petrina Dacres, a researcher and independent curator from Jamaica. (9/21) | More
LIVES
Jacqueline “Jackie” Copeland, a Maryland arts leader who she spent three decades working in museums, died on Sept. 20. She was 76. Copeland joined the Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History & Culture in Baltimore in 2017 as director of education and visitor services. She became executive director of the museum in 2019, serving in the role until 2020. Previously, she spent nearly 15 years at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore. Most recently, Copeland was chair of the Maryland State Arts Council. (9/24) | Baltimore Sun
APPOINTMENTS
Jade Powers joined the Birmingham Museum of Art (BMA) in the role of Hugh Kaul Curator of Contemporary Art. She officially started in early September. Since 2022, Powers had served as curator of contemporary art at Harn Museum of Art in Gainesville, Fla. Previously, she was assistant curator of contemporary art at Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art in Kansas City, Mo. (9/25) | More
IMAGE: At right, Jade Powers. | Photo by Kenny Johnson
SYMPOSIUMS
Syracuse University Art Museum and artist Carrie Mae Weems are hosting Monumental Concerns (Oct. 6-7), a public symposium exploring “the rightful place of monuments in our society and the increasing complexity they represent today in terms of their cultural, historical, and social meanings and significance.” Weems is an artist-in-residence at the university. The symposium is free and open to the public. Registration is required. (9/25) | More
MAGAZINES
The fall 2023 issue of Aperture magazine is guest edited by New York–based artist Lyle Ashton Harris and Accra-based photographer and educator Nii Obodai. With Accra as its theme, the issue “considers the Ghanaian capital as a site of dynamic photographic voices and histories that connect visual culture in West Africa to the world.” Coverage includes British Ghanaian photographer John Akomfrah in conversation with Harris and Vanessa Peterson; a feature on the Dikan Center, a photography center with an impressive library that opened in December 2022; and an interview with German Ghanaian artist Zohra Opoku conducted by Ekow Eshun. | More
MORE NEWS
In Washington, D.C., George Washington University’s Corcoran School of the Arts & Design, the Trustees of the Corcoran Gallery of Art, and the National Gallery of Art announced a new partnership. The National Gallery of Art acquired more than 9,000 works from the Corcoran Gallery of Art when it closed in 2014. Building on that arrangement, new initiatives include learning opportunities for students with National Gallery of Art experts teaching workshops at the Corcoran School; a Corcoran Legacy Gallery at the National Gallery, where a rotating selection of works from the former Corcoran collection will be on view; and at the Corcoran School, a future home base for partnership programming designed to “foster creativity and education.” (9/21) | More
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