Black Art Library, Part II

A Detroit native and founder of the Black Art Library, a collection of books she began curating on Black visual arts in early 2020. The Black Art Library will be a public-facing archive, research library, and collection of art books, children’s books, exhibition catalogues, biographies, and ephemera on Black visual arts and artists intended to be an educational resource for the Black community and beyond.

Independent curator and cultural strategist Antoine Girard is passionate about the arts and social change. He has worked with The Broad Museum, the California African American Museum (CAAM), and most recently The Underground Museum. His work in the museum field has garnered support from institutions such as The American Alliance of Museums and the Western Arts Foundation where he was recently recognized as an Emerging Leader of Color. He holds a BA in Art History from Howard University and is based in Southern California. Shattered Glass, an exhibition which he co-curated with Melahn Frierson featuring 40 international artists of color exploring questions of power, surveillance, and justice, will be on view in March at Jeffrey Deitch Projects in Los Angeles.

Multi-disciplinary artist, designer, and curator Maceo “Paisley” Keeling explores themes in society and identity through movement, language, visual art, and imagery. New to Detroit by way of Los Angeles, he is excited to take on his role as Curatorial Fellow at Museum Of Contemporary Art.

Founder of Olu & Company, a marketing and business consultancy at the intersection of art and social justice; co-founder of Detroit Art Week, and founder of IMG SRVR, a visual content sharing platform for creative professionals. Olu worked as an independent curator and arts writer. During this period, he organized over 40 exhibitions, co-authored Humble Art Foundation’s The Collector’s Guide to New Art Photography Vol. 1 and 2, launched his ground-breaking “Young Curators, New Ideas” exhibition series, and wrote about artists William Eggleston, Rashaad Newsome, David Benjamin Sherry, Elad Lassry, Zoe Crosher, and K8 Hardy. In 2018, Olu organized Rhythm, Repetition, and Vocab, an exhibition of abstract works by Allie McGhee and Carole Harris at the Detroit Institute of Arts.