In Black communities, faith and art have always intersected. Henry Ossawa Tanner’s The Annunciation is a powerful example. In the painting, Tanner brings quiet humanity to the moment Mary receives … Read more
I first met Gio of Gio Chamba over a decade ago at Noches Culturales, an event sponsored by Starbucks. He had just formed the band, and I fell in love … Read more
Project Row Houses has always been a place where history, culture, and community collide, but Round 59 takes that mission to another level. One of the exhibitions, Harrison Guy’s, “For … Read more
Walking into the Houston Museum of African American Culture, I was immediately drawn into the emotional gravity of Chayse Sampy’s exhibition Who Feels It, Knows It. The title, taken from … Read more
When Timi Etebu founded Mitochondria Gallery in 2019, his motivation was simple yet profound: to create a space where Black artists could tell their own stories. As a Nigerian living … Read more
Danny Simmons brings his full creative force to the Houston Museum of African American Culture with The Journey to Everything, an exhibition that fuses multimedia paintings with African artifacts from … Read more
I recently attended JajaH’s exhibition “As It Is” at the Community Artists’ Collective in Houston. The show was quiet yet full of meaning. His paintings slow you down and turn … Read more
At The RADO Market, D.Gemm’s latest curatorial work, Accessible Abundance, delivers a powerful statement on the layered importance of access. Featuring work from Akaimi the Artist, Joshua Scott, Nessia Creates, … Read more
If you want to get good at something, you’ve got to be passionate about it. In Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell says it takes 10,000 hours of deliberate practice to become truly … Read more
When you see South African ceramic sculptor Qiniso Mungwe crafting life-like animals out of small pieces of clay, you can only marvel at how stunning they are. I watched him … Read more