About
Our Mission
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
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.
BAA Pillars
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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
