About
Our Mission
The Black Artists Archive creates a safe, supportive, and dynamic space for people to make, exhibit, learn, and preserve Black art history & visual culture.
Our Vision
Our vision is to transform human lives by presenting Black visual culture in ways that dismantle the conventional functions of the archive, the exhibition, and traditional art history.
BAA Pillars
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The Archive
BAA’s primary foundational center is our archive, which consists of both a digital and physical repository that documents, collects, and preserves the legacies of Black artists from Detroit.
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DUO Incubatory Residency
Our third foundational initiative is DUO, a year-long artist/curator residency at the Black Artists Archive that sustains an artist/curator pair interested in experimental and contemporary praxis based in Black cultural frameworks and builds from the Archive and the BCI.
"In graduate school, I could not understand why Fred Wilson’s exhibition
Mining the Museum did not have a more permanent effect on curatorial practice and institutional responsibility to Black people and their histories."
Dr. Kelli Morgan
