Ep.202 Adebunmi Gbadebo (b. 1992 in Livingston, NJ) is a multidisciplinary artist working with paper, ceramics, sound, and film, exploring Gbadebo explores the archival record of her family’s ancestry. Through her research, material selection, and technical process, the artist emphasizes the prejudice of the historical record, activating her practice to restore Black subjectivity.

She received a BFA from the School of Visual Art, New York. In 2023, she was the recipient of the Maxwell and Hanrahan Craft Fellowship and the Keynote speaker for the American Ceramic Circle annual conference. In 2022, she was a Pew Fellow at the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage. Gbadebo is currently an Artist in Residence at The Clay Studio and has exhibited across the US and internationally in Africa, Europe, Asia and Australia. Her work is now on view in major exhibitions such as the 24th Sydney Biennale: Ten Thousand Suns; Minneapolis Museum of Art: Collage/Assemblage Part II: 1990-Now; and Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina, which opened at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, in 2022, and has traveled to the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, University of Michigan Museum of Art, and is now at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta.

Gbadebo’s work is in the public collections of the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Washington, D.C.; Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Washington D.C.; Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; Minnesota Museum of American Art, St. Paul, MN; Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis MN; Weisman Museum of Art, Minneapolis, MN; Newark Museum of Art, Newark, NJ; and South Carolina State Museum, Columbia, SC. Her public commissions include an ongoing sculpture project in collaboration with students and faculty from Clemson University, SC, and the Harriet Tubman Monument (2021), Newark, NJ.

Photo Credit:Tobias Truvillion

Articles

● Past Present Projects Magazine: Past Present No. 4

● The Pew Center For Arts and Heritage: Fellow to Fellow: Adebunmi Gbadebo and Odili Donald Odita on Meaning in Materiality

● WHYY: Philly artist wins $100K craft prize for her work remembering Black ancestors

● PBS: Treasures of New Jersey

● Penn Today: Ritual and Remembrance

● The Boston Globe At the MFA, enslaved Black potters’ work brings lives into the light in ‘Hear Me Now’

● The Post and Courier At the Met, in Harlem and beyond, acclaimed artist honors enslaved SC ancestors

● Forbes, Haunting Generational Trauma In “Remains” By Adebunmi Gbadebo At Claire Oliver Gallery In Harlem

● Brooklyn Rail, Abstraction in the Black Diaspora

● New York Times, Critic’s Pick: The Magnificent Poem Jars of David Drake, Center Stage at the Met

● New York Times, New Shows That Widen the Beaten Path

Ep.201 features Lindsay Adams (b. 1990, Washington, D.C.) , an Artist working across traditional mediums. Embracing her intersectional identity, Lindsay’s work serves as both a reflection and extension of self, challenging narratives of both race and representation, reflecting on personal and collective histories and memories, while simultaneously mining through the complexity of the black experience. Lindsay’s current body of work is a visual and conceptual investigation of the balance between certainty and imagination, examining themes of place, liberation, memory, and psychological space. She reflects on personal and collective histories and memories, while simultaneously mining through the complexity of the black experience. Adams’ abstracted florals serve as an index for marking and reclaiming her black ancestral connection to land, embracing both personal and shared narratives while reflecting on the importance of the sites that have accumulated histories of social, cultural, and political life. Drawing connections to place and space, she responds to each mark intuitively while making both formal and narrative considerations. She renders layers of texture and color, alternating between abstracted and defined forms, composing multiple paintings within one. Employing her educational foundation as a social scientist, with a background in foreign relations, sociology, and cultural anthropology, she systematically engages in her work with precise critical analysis and a perceptive understanding of the complex fabric of social dynamics. Lindsay received her B.A. in International Studies: World Politics and Diplomacy and Latin and Iberian Studies from The University of Richmond.

Lindsay has been the recipient of the New Artist Society Merit Award at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where she is currently pursuing an MFA in Painting and Drawing, and she has had solo presentations at Eaton DC, Washington and Riverhill Art Residency, Upstate Art Weekend. Her works were recently exhibited at Baltimore Museum of Art; James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY; Alpha Arts Alliance, Brooklyn; Gavlak Gallery, Los Angeles; Allouche Gallery, New York. Her work is in the collection of the Baltimore Museum of Art and Northwestern Law School.

Photo credit: Lana Jackson

Artist https://www.lindsay-adams.com/

“Lindsay Adams’s Intimate Paintings Explore Place, Self, and Memory”

https://www.nga.gov/stories/lindsay-adams-intimate-paintings.html

Baltimore Museum of Art https://collection.artbma.org/people/32189/lindsay-adams

James Cohan https://www.jamescohan.com/exhibitions/arcadia-and-elsewhere

Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/05/30/lindsay-adams-dream-day/

University of Richmond https://urnow.richmond.edu/features/article/-/21779/an-artist-and-an-advocate.html?utm_source=www&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=features-story

LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/lindsaybadams/

Gavlak https://www.gavlakgallery.com/artists/lindsay-adams

National Gallery of Art https://www.nga.gov/stories/lindsay-adams-intimate-paintings.html

DCist https://dcist.com/story/22/04/29/lindsay-adams-debuts-first-solo-exhibit-dc/

Green Family Art Foundation https://www.greenfamilyartfoundation.org/exhibitions/22-in-the-know-show/

Visionary Projects https://visionaryprojects.org/interviews/lindsay-adams

Loeffler Randall https://loefflerrandall.com/blogs/lr-stories/inthestudiowithlindsayadams

Soho House https://www.sohohouse.com/en-us/house-notes/issue-006/art-and-design/lindsay-adams

Marie Claire Magazine https://www.marieclaire.com/fashion/a36805666/lindsay-adams-artwork/

Refinery29 https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/2020/07/9923617/black-disabled-artist-cerebral-palsy-lindsay-adams-interview

EPISODE 200 Pamela J. Joyner has nearly 30 years of experience in the investment industry. She is the Founder of Avid Partners, LLC where her expertise has been the alternative investment arena. Currently, Ms. Joyner is focused on her philanthropic interests in the arts and education.

Ms. Joyner is a Trustee of The Art Institute of Chicago, the J. Paul Getty Trust and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. In 2020, she joined the board of trustees of the Museum of Modern Art in New York and in 2021 she became the chair of the Painting and Sculpture Committee. In 2020 with several others she also founded the Black Trustee Alliance for Art Museums.

Previously, Ms. Joyner’s philanthropic involvements have included serving as: a member of President Obama’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities; a Trustee of Dartmouth College; a Trustee of the New York City Ballet; a Trustee and Co-Chair of the San Francisco Ballet Association; as well as other arts and educational organizations.

Photo credit: Drew Altizer

MoMA https://www.moma.org/about/trustees

Black Trustee Alliance https://blacktrusteealliance.org/about/our-team/

Art Institute of Chicago https://www.artic.edu/about-us/leadership/board-of-trustees

Getty https://www.getty.edu/news/pamela-j-joyner-joins-j-paul-getty-trust-board/

https://www.getty.edu/about/leadership-governance/board/#current- trustees

SFMOMA https://www.sfmoma.org/press-release/sfmoma-announces-major-gift-from-the-pamela-j-joyner-and-alfred-j-giuffrida-collection-celebrating-black-american-artists-of-the-20th-century/

President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/president-obama-announces-more-key-administration-posts-2510

Smart Museum of Art https://smartmuseum.uchicago.edu/exhibitions/solidary-and-solitary/

NYTimes 2024 https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/25/arts/design/may-new-york-art-scene.html

" https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/10/arts/design/adriano-pedrosa-venice-biennale.html

NYTimes 2023 https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/25/arts/design/richard-mayhew-painter-gallery-review.html

NYTimes 2022 https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/09/arts/design/san-francisco-museum-christopher-bedford-baltimore.html

NYTimes 2021 https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/21/arts/art-basel-fair-returns-switzerland.html

NYTimes 2020 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/09/arts/design/black-trustees-art-museums-diversity.html

The Art Newspaper https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2020/02/12/championing-african-american-abstraction-inside-the-collection-of-pamela-joyner

Architectural Digest https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/this-san-francisco-mansion-is-a-stunning-celebration-of-black-artists

ARTnews https://www.artnews.com/gallery/art-news/photos/sfmoma-pamela-joyner-gift-1234586626/

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/pamela-j-joyner-collector-shaping-art-2020s-1202675034/

Artnet https://news.artnet.com/art-world/sfmoma-gift-pamela-joyner-alfred-giuffrida-1950427

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/what-i-buy-and-why-pamela-joyner-1811700

First Republic Bank https://www.firstrepublic.com/insights-education/art-collecting-with-purpose-pamela-joyners-mission-to-elevate-african-american-artists

Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Joyner

Books ~ Four-Generations-Giuffrida-Collection http://bit.ly/3WoA19p and https://amzn.to/4aZlGoe

Art Collection https://artcollection.io/blog/pamela-j-joyner-an-activist-collector-reframing-art-history

Mansion Global https://www.mansionglobal.com/articles/collector-pamela-joyner-made-her-san-fran-home-an-ode-to-black-artists-its-now-selling-for-nearly-15-million-cd1bedcd

Ep.199 Luke Agada is a Nigerian artist living and working in Chicago. His practice examines themes of globalization, migration and cultural dislocation within the framework of a postcolonial world, as he reflects on the African diaspora and its impact on neo-cultural evolution. He obtained an MFA in Painting and drawing at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2023. In recent years, Agada has participated in shows in Lagos, New York, Chicago, Beijing, Accra, Berlin, Casablanca. His work has been featured in several publications including Newcity Magazine, Culture type, The Pinch Journal publication at the University of Memphis, Tennessee, Nigeria Art archives, Juxtapoz, Whitewall. He has also been a recipient of various awards and fellowship including the Global warming international art prize, AII, New Yorkin 2020, Janet and Russell Doubleday Award at The Art Students league of New York in 2022, The Helen Frankenthaler Award in 2022 and The James Nelson Raymond Fellowship Award in 2023. Agada was Resident Fellow at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art in 2023. He was recently named a 2024 Breakout Artist by NewCity Magazine and is currently a Teaching Fellow at the Painting and Drawing Department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL. 

Photo: Courtesy The Artist and moniquemeloche Chicago, IL.  

Artist https://lukeagada.com/

moniquemeloche https://www.moniquemeloche.com/artists/208-luke-agada/biography/

Newcity 2024 https://art.newcity.com/2024/04/02/breakout-artists-2024-chicagos-next-generation-of-image-makers/

Newcity 2023 https://www.newcity.com/2023/10/04/today-in-culture-october-4-2023-report-says-arts-sector-not-so-healthy-equity-jeffs-love-goodman-chicago-is-still-the-best-says-conde-nast-traveler/

School of The Art Institute of Chicago https://sites.saic.edu/gradshow2023/artists/luke-agada/

Culture Type https://www.culturetype.com/2023/10/12/latest-news-in-black-art-luke-agada-joined-monique-meloche-gallery-new-atlanta-art-fair-black-studies-x-art-history-more/

La voce di New York https://lavocedinewyork.com/en/new-york/2023/09/16/luke-agada-arms-feet-and-fitful-dreams-at-monique-meloche-gallery/ 

Artsy https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-6-rising-artists-discovered-galleries-summer-group

The Artists Feature https://theartistsfeature.com/features/luke-agada

Ep.198 Allison Janae Hamilton (b. 1984 in Kentucky, raised in Florida) has exhibited widely across the U.S. and abroad. Her work has been the subject of institutional solo exhibitions at the Georgia Museum of Art, the Joslyn Art Museum, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA), and Atlanta Contemporary, as well as a commissioned solo project with Creative Time. Her sculpture, Love is like the sea… (2023) is currently on view in the Poydras Corridor Sculpture Exhibition, presented by The Helis Foundation in New Orleans, LA. Select recent group exhibitions include The Dirty South: Contemporary Art, Material Culture, and the Sonic Impulse, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts; Shifting Horizons, Nevada Museum of Art; Enunciated Life, California African Art Museum; More, More, More, TANK Shanghai; and Indicators: Artists on Climate Change, Storm King Art Center. Work by the artist is held in public collections such as the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Hood Museum of Art, The Menil Collection, Nasher Museum of Art, Nevada Museum of Art, and Speed Museum of Art, among others. Hamilton has participated in a range of fellowships and residencies, including at the Whitney Independent Study Program, New York, NY; the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY; and Fundación Botín, Santander, Spain. She is the recipient of the Creative Capital Award and the Rema Hort Mann Foundation Grant. Hamilton holds a PhD in American Studies from New York University and an MFA in Visual Arts from Columbia University. She lives and works in New York.

Portrait: Heather Sten

Artist https://www.allisonjanaehamilton.com/

Marianne Boesky Gallery https://marianneboeskygallery.com/artists/60-allison-janae-hamilton/press/

Storm King Art Center https://indicators.stormking.org/allison-janae-hamilton/

Georgia Museum of Art https://georgiamuseum.org/exhibit/allison-janae-hamilton-between-life-and-landscape/

University of Georgia https://www.wuga.org/show/museum-minute/2022-10-28/museum-minute-allison-janae-hamilton

Nasher Museum of Art https://nasher.duke.edu/stories/allison-janae-hamilton-floridawater-ii-sisters-wakulla-county-fl-and-when-the-wind-has-teeth/

Helis Foundation https://www.thehelisfoundation.org/pcse/love-is-like-the-sea...

Pippy HouldsworthGallery https://www.houldsworth.co.uk/exhibitions/140-tales-of-soil-and-concrete-brett-goodroad-allison-janae-hamilton-yun-fei-ji-arturo/works/

The Highline https://www.thehighline.org/art/projects/allison-janae-hamilton/

Contemporary Art Library https://www.contemporaryartlibrary.org/artist/allison-janae-hamilton-6327

Artpil https://artpil.com/allison-janae-hamilton/

The Clark https://www.clarkart.edu/microsites/humane-ecology/about-the-artists/allison-janae-hamilton

UGA Today https://news.uga.edu/nature-is-at-the-center-of-allison-janae-hamiltons-work/

Rema Hort Mann Foundation https://www.remahortmannfoundation.org/allison-janae-hamilton/

Ogden Museum https://ogdenmuseum.org/event/florida-stories-a-conversation-with-author-lauren-groff-and-visual-artist-allison-janae-hamilton/

Kids Kiddle https://kids.kiddle.co/Allison_Janae_Hamilton

WWD https://wwd.com/feature/allison-janae-hamilton-marianne-boesky-gallery-art-exhibition-1234792142/

Whitewall Art https://whitewall.art/art/allison-janae-hamilton-interrogates-myths-around-landscape-and-stories-of-paradise/

Whitewall Art https://whitewall.art/whitewaller/allison-janae-hamilton-a-romance-of-paradise/

Where y’at https://www.whereyat.com/allison-janae-hamilton-lauren-groff-florida-new-orleans

The Bitter Southerner https://bittersoutherner.com/summer-voices/aunjanue-ellis/allison-janae-hamilton

C& https://contemporaryand.com/exhibition/allison-janae-hamilton-a-romance-of-paradise/

The University of Texas at Austin

https://repositories.lib.utexas.edu/items/3f37e356-f2a7-4f3b-a9d4-7614ddfac848

Urban Milwaukee https://urbanmilwaukee.com/people/allison-janae-hamilton/

Ep.197 Peter Uka (b. 1975,Nigeria; lives and works in Cologne, Germany) devises figurative paintings which draw from his childhood memories of Nigeria. With a classical training in realistic figuration Uka combines various image references of time specific objects with images from his memory to convey innate and timeless human emotion.  Scenes of growing up in Nigeria, including elements like afro hair styles and bell-bottom jeans, bright mannerisms, and local customs are captured in vibrant, visual narrative.  His compositions also capture international trends from the late 20th century and the ways globalization connects countries around the world. These narratives uncover historical precedents of globalization and dynamic cultural signifiers connecting two countries that Uka calls home, while reminding the rest of the world of collective reciprocity, closeness, and connection.  Uka completed his studies in2017 at the  Kunstakademie in Düsseldorf (Germany) and has exhibited at National Museum Onikan(Lagos, Nigeria), Haus der Kunst (Munich, Germany),  Kunsthaus  Mettman (Germany) and DIDI Museum(Lagos, Nigeria). His work has been shown at the Flag Art Foundation and is included in collections such as the Long Museum.  

Portrait of Peter Uka by Kai Schmidt. Courtesy of Mariane  

Marian Ibrahim  https://marianeibrahim.com/press/247-peter-uka-galerie-magazine/

Financial Times https://marianeibrahim.com/press/115-peter-uka-financial-times-weekend/

Long Museum https://marianeibrahim.com/news/89-being-in-the-world-peter-uka-i-long-museum/

Flag Art Foundation https://marianeibrahim.com/news/68-peter-uka-remembrance-peter-uka-the-flag-art-foundation/

Colossal  https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2024/03/peter-uka-portraits/

Culture Type https://www.culturetype.com/2022/01/12/longing-new-paintings-by-peter-uka-channel-fond-memories-of-nigeria-this-for-me-is-a-moment-in-time-a-time-when-all-was-well-all-was-good/

Newcity Art https://art.newcity.com/2022/01/10/unapologetically-authentic-a-review-of-peter-uka-at-mariane-ibrahim/

It’s Nice That https://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/peter-uka-art-080421

African Digital Art  https://www.africandigitalart.com/on-painting-nigerian-contemporary-artist-peter-uka/

Galerie Magazine https://galeriemagazine.com/5-must-see-exhibitions-see-paris-month/

The Jealous Curator https://thejealouscurator.substack.com/p/art-delivery-112323

WhiteWall https://whitewall.art/art/best-paris-exhibitions-art-imitating-life/

Juxtapoz  https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/magazine/features/peter-uka-abc-to-xyz/

Metal Magazine https://metalmagazine.eu/en/post/peter-uka

W Magazine https://www.wmagazine.com/culture/peter-uka-longing-mariane-ibrahim-gallery-interview

Artnet https://www.artnet.com/artists/peter-uka/

Ep.196 Jacob Mason-Macklin lives and works in Queens, New York. Mason-Macklin graduated from the Columbus College of Art & Design in 2017. He is a 2016 alumnus of the Yale-Norfolk Summer School of Art and a 2019 alumnus of the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.

In 2021-2022, Mason-Macklin was an Artist-in Residence at The Studio Museum in Harlem, Harlem, New York, USA. Recent exhibitions include: “Underground” at Mamoth Gallery in London, UK (2023), “The Future Won't Be Long Now” at SOMEDAY, Lower Manhattan, New York, USA (2023), and “It’s Time For Me To Go” at MOMA PS1, Long Island City, New York, USA (2022-2023).

A dou-exhibition with artist Ryan Huggins at Page gallery, New York, USA (2021). “Soul Procession” at Interstate Projects, Brooklyn, New York, USA (2020). “Pure Hell” at No Place Gallery in Columbus, Ohio, USA (2020); “Bounty” with Cudelice Brazelton at the Jeffrey Stark Gallery in New York, USA. Curated by Amanda Hunt (2017).

Photo credit for headshot: Ally Caple

Studio Museum Harlem https://www.studiomuseum.org/artists/jacob-mason-macklin

MoMA https://www.moma.org/slideshows/626

MAMOTH https://www.mamoth.co.uk/exhibitions/42/installation_shots/image1586/

MAMOTH https://www.mamoth.co.uk/blog/47-watch-jacob-mason-macklin-s-residency-journey-in-london/

Art Rabbit https://www.artrabbit.com/events/jacob-masonmacklin-underground

Artfacts https://artfacts.net/exhibition/jacob-mason-macklin:-underground/1143681

Art Viewer https://artviewer.org/jacob-mason-macklin-at-mamoth/

Page NYC https://page-nyc.com/exhibitions/jacob-mason-macklin

Jeffrey Stark https://www.jeffreystark.nyc/project/cudelice_brazelton_jake_mason_macklin/

Ep.195 Connie Butler is the Director of MoMA PS1 in New York. Prior to her arrival in September 2023, since 2013, she was Chief Curator at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles where she organized numerous exhibitions including the biennial of Los Angeles artists Made in LA (2014); Mark Bradford: Scorched Earth (2015); Marisa Merz:

The Sky Is a Great Space (2017); Lari Pittman: Declaration of Independence (2019); and Witch Hunt (2021). She also co-organized with MoMA, Adrian Piper: A Synthesis of Intuitions which opened at the Hammer in October 2018. From 2006-2013 she was the Robert Lehman Foundation Chief Curator of Drawings at The Museum of Modern Art, New York where she co-curated the first major Lygia Clark retrospective in the United States (2014) and On Line: Drawing Through the Twentieth Century (2010) in addition to Greater New York (2010) and Mike Kelley (2013) at MoMA PS1. Butler also organized the groundbreaking survey WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution (2007) at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles where she was curator from 1996-2006. In 2020 Butler received the Bard College Audrey Irmas Award for Curatorial Excellence.

Photo credit: Tag Christof

MoMA https://press.moma.org/news/moma-ps1-announces-new-director/

Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornelia_Butler

NYTimes https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/08/arts/design/moma-ps1-new-director-connie-butler.html

The Art Newspaper https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2023/05/10/connie-butler-moma-ps1-director-hammer-museum

Art Review https://artreview.com/connie-butler-to-direct-moma-ps1/

Whitewalls https://www.widewalls.ch/news-feed/moma-ps1-connie-butler-director

Hyperallergic https://hyperallergic.com/873871/moma-ps1-workers-urge-director-connie-butler-to-settle-a-fair-contract/

Hyperallergic https://hyperallergic.com/820809/who-is-connie-butler-the-new-director-of-moma-ps1/

Sun Valley Museum of Art https://svmoa.org/events/lectures-talks/2023-07-20/on-collecting-three-conversations-collector-as-curator

LA Times https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2023-05-08/commentary-staff-changes-at-the-ucla-hammer-museum

Center for Curatorial Leadership https://www.curatorialleadership.org/participants/ccl-program/cornelia-butler/

ARTnews https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/connie-butler-moma-ps1-director-1234667070/

WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution https://www.moca.org/exhibition/wack-art-and-the-feminist-revolution

Mark Bradford Exhibition https://hammer.ucla.edu/exhibitions/2015/mark-bradford-scorched-earth

UCLA/ Hammer Museum https://newsroom.ucla.edu/stories/hammer-museum-connie-butler

Ep.194 Tiana Webb Evans is the Founder ESP Group LLC, a brand strategy and communications consultancy supporting international clients across art, design, and hospitality industries. She is also the founder and creative director of Yard Concept, a cultural platform comprised of a digital journal, gallery, and ‘happenings’ dedicated to fostering consciousness through the engagement of art, design, and community; and most recently the founder of Jamaica Art Society an initiative designed to support Jamaican art professional and celebrate its visual arts legacy.

Tiana’s experience includes branding, communications, strategic planning, business development and cultural programming. Before launching ESP in 2014, Tiana served as the Communications Director at Phillips Auctioneers, a global corporation focused on the sale of Contemporary Art. As Vice President of the Hospitality and Real Estate group at Nadine Johnson & Associates she was responsible for a portfolio of clients working at the intersection of art, culture and business. Prior establishing a career in communications she was the Business Director of Studio Sofield, a celebrated architecture and design firm known for its work with Gucci Group and a host of notable luxury good brands.

In addition to her professional endeavors Tiana, writes about culture, advises and supports emerging artists, and shares her expertise by serving on the boards of Project for Empty Space, the Female Design Council, and Atlanta Art Week, and is on advisory committees for the Laundromat Project, Photo Fairs, and Art at a Time Like This.

ESP Group https://espgroup.global/

Yard Concept https://www.yard-concept.com/

Jamaica Art Society https://www.jamaicaartsociety.com/

Foundwork https://foundwork.art/guest-curators/tiana-webb-evans

Brooklyn Rail https://brooklynrail.org/contributor/Tiana-Webb-Evans

Artnet https://news.artnet.com/art-world/art-world-at-home-tiana-webb-evans-1972157

LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/tianawebbevans/

Photo Fairs https://www.photofairs.org/newyork/tiana_webb_evans/

WhiteWall https://whitewall.art/art/art-mamas-community-essential-tiana-webb-evans/

Apartment Therapy https://www.apartmenttherapy.com/design-changemakers-2021-tiana-webb-evans-36866078

POW Arts https://www.powarts.org/events/2021/5/3/may-colleagues-amp-friends

Pin-Up Magazine https://archive.pinupmagazine.org/articles/tiana-webb-evans-on-african-american-home-life-in-art

Ep.193 Helina Metaferia is an interdisciplinary artist working across collage, assemblage, video, performance, and social engagement. Her work integrates archives, somatic studies, and dialogical practices, creating overlooked narratives that amplify BIPOC/femme bodies.

Metaferia received her MFA from Tufts University’s School of the Museum of Fine Arts and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Recent solo exhibitions and projects include RISD Art Museum (2022-2023); Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA (2021-2022); New York University's The Gallatin Galleries, New York, NY (2021); Michigan State University's Scene Metrospace Gallery, East Lansing, MI (2019); and Museum of African Diaspora, San Francisco, CA (2017). Metaferia's work was included in the Sharjah Biennial in the United Arab Emirates (2023), the Tennessee Triennial through the Frist Art Museum and Fisk University Art Gallery (2023). Her work is in the permanent collection of institutions including Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; Sharjah Art Foundation, United Arab Emirates; Kadist, San Francisco, CA and Paris, France; and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York, NY.

Metaferia’s work has been supported by several residencies including MacDowell, Yaddo, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, and MASS MoCA. She is currently a 2021-2023 artist-in-residence at Silver Art Projects at the World Trade Center in New York City. Her work has been written about in publications including The New York Times, Financial Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, Artnet News, The Art Newspaper, and Hyperallergic. Metaferia is an Assistant Professor at Brown University in the Visual Art department, and lives and works in New York City.

Photo credit: Tommie Battle

Artist https://www.helinametaferia.com/

NYTimes https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/24/arts/things-to-do-this-weekend.html

Artsy Helina Metaferia Honors the Activist Legacies of Black Women across Collage and Performance | Artsy

Artnet News https://news.artnet.com/art-world/how-do-you-judge-the-value-of-social-practice-art-artist-helina-metaferia-developed-metrics-to-determine-if-a-project-is-successful-2181336

Vanity Fair Leisure, Adornment, and Beauty Are Radical Acts in “Resting Our Eyes” | Vanity Fair

The Cut ‘Resting Our Eyes’: 10 Black Artists at ICA San Francisco (thecut.com)

Chicago Tribune 4 female artists mount a Chicago exhibit on climate issues: ‘Activism work is care work’ – Chicago Tribune

Sugarcane Magazine Ritual and Remembrance in Sharjah Biennial 15 - Sugarcane Magazine ™| Black Art Magazine

Interior Design Magazine Artist Helina Metaferia Celebrates Black Women Activists in Two Solo Shows - Interior Design

The Art Newspaper https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2021/06/16/black-artists-and-performers-take-over-fort-greene-park-for-juneteenth-jubilee

Financial Times ( First) https://www.ft.com/content/9b75fdcd-9f1a-4c3f-ae70-b1140fc9cdad

Financial Times (Second) https://www.ft.com/content/e8030f71-2925-4fbb-8e0a-96d6ce1cf774

Contemporary And https://contemporaryand.com/magazines/helina-metaferia-weaving-and-resisting-in-more-than-a-few-ways/