Detroit curator, historian, educator, and former Hyperallergic fellow Kelli Morgan thought she was finished with museum work. Then a conversation with a co-worker compelled her to set out on a mission to document and share the rich legacy of the city’s Black artists.
This past July, Morgan launched the Black Artists Archive (BAA) — a nonprofit aimed at documenting the long history of Black arts in Detroit and sharing it with a wider audience.
Morgan’s latest pivot builds on her previous work in museums and academic institutions, where she has advocated anti-racist curation methodologies over the course of her curatorial and academic careers. After publicly resigning from her curatorial role at the Indianapolis Museum of Art (at Newfields) in 2020, citing racial discrimination, she went on to establish the anti-racist curatorial practice certificate at Tufts University, where she served as the Inaugural Director of Curatorial Studies. From last fall until this past July, she worked as Senior Curator and Interim Vice-President of Exhibitions & Programs at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History.
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