Life & Work with Dr. Kelli Morgan of Detroit

Today we’d like to introduce you to Dr. Kelli Morgan

Hi Dr. Kelli, so excited to have you with us today. What can you tell us about your story?I grew up on the west side of Detroit, attended Mercy Highschool, and graduated Cum Laude from Wayne State University. After receiving my master’s and doctoral degrees from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, I set out to change the discriminatory foundations of traditional Western art museums. Thus, the concept for the Black Artists Archive began germinating in 2011 when I visited Kellie Jones’ groundbreaking exhibition Now Dig This!: Art and Black Los Angeles, 1960-1980. I identified immediately that I needed to bring more visibility to the fact that Black artists in L.A. were not an anomaly. The artists in the exhibition in L.A. were just one example of a much larger scenario.

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