Discover our mission to preserve, activate, and share Black cultural heritage.
You CanтАЩt Create What You CanтАЩt See
Our vision is to transform human lives by presenting Black artistic legacies in ways that dismantle the conventional functions of the archive, the exhibition, and traditional art history.
Black archival traditions are essential to Black communities
Safeguarding the legacies and cultural histories of Detroit’s Black artists, BAA archives underrecognized collections and ensures their accessibility through stewardship, exhibitions, and education.
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.
Our third foundational initiative is┬аDUO, 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.┬а
