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The Changing Same? Roundtable and Book Launch
Book Launch and RoundtableWednesday, 31 May 202318:00-19:30 BSTSpeakers: Anjalie Dalal-Clayton, Paul Goodwin, Carolina Rito, Ian Sergeant, and Marlene Smith. Register here! Download publication here. ‘The Role of Visual Arts Organisations in the British Black Arts Movement in the Midlands’ is a research network funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). Co-led by Carolina Rito (Coventry University) and Paul Goodwin (University of the...
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Carol Thompson on Black Art an’ Done Exhibition
We organised a workshop with the project partners and working group members at New Art Exchange on the 7th of December 2022. The project partners were asked to give a short presentation about an event or activity that they found radical and transformative in the history of their organisation. Here is what Senior Curator Carol Thompson at Wolverhampton Gallery shared with us. Carol Thompson...
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Nation’s Finest, Putting Down Roots & Birthing
Marlene Smith Nation’s Finest, Putting Down Roots & Birthing is the title of a multi-dimensional and inter-generational project by artist Beverley Bennett, commissioned by the B2022 Commonwealth Games cultural festival and curated by myself and Ian Sergeant for the Blk Art Group Research Project. B2022 wanted a project that made reference to the rich history of the Black Arts Movement in the region and...
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The Role of Visual Arts Organisations in the British Black Arts Movement in the Midlands
The project explores the legacy of the Black Arts Movement (BAM) in the Midlands and the understudied role of the visual arts institutions in supporting the movement in the 1980s and today. This network also aims to actualise the 1980s movement’s motivations in light of today’s response of the sector in supporting, promoting and showing Black curators and artists. Objectives • To foster research...
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Keith Piper and Marlene Smith on the PanAfrikan Connection Exhibition
In-conversation with Keith Piper and Marlene Smith, moderated by Carolina Rito, exploring the BLK Art Group exhibition, PanAfrikan Connection, at the Herbert Gallery and Museum in 1983.