Jessica Gaynelle Moss joins the Santa Fe Art Institute as Artist Relations Director, bringing deep experience in residency leadership, community engagement, and artist support systems.
Augustus Washington was among the earliest African American studio photographers—building a Hartford practice in the daguerreian era, then expanding photography’s story into Liberia.
A landmark group exhibition spotlights contemporary Afro-Puerto Rican photography at Afro Casa Silvana Museum in Humacao, on view through May 16, 2026.
Roberto Diago represents Cuba at the 2026 Venice Biennale with Hombres Libres / Free Men, an installation of scarred sculptural heads built from salvaged materials that frames freedom as embodied, hard-won, and historical.
The art industry runs on more than artists and curators. Here are 18 art world careers that keep exhibitions, collections, and programs moving, plus how people actually get into them.
Robert S. Duncanson rose from antebellum Cincinnati to become one of the most visible Black painters of the nineteenth century. His landscapes place him inside major conversations about American art, patronage, morality, and national identity while widening the frame of what Black art history includes.
James Presley Ball built one of the largest portrait studios of the 1800s, turning photography into both a business and a powerful visual record of Black life.
The 8th annual Oolite Arts Awards expands across four counties, shifting to fully unrestricted awards that distribute $425,000 in direct support plus $75,000 in acquisitions for South Florida artists.
Daguerreotypes were one-of-one photographs on silvered metal plates that helped launch photography in 1839. Here’s what they are, how they work, and why they still matter.
Born into slavery and trained inside Peale’s Philadelphia Museum, Moses Williams became the era’s leading silhouette cutter, turning precision portraiture into freedom and legacy.