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Black Art Matters (BAM) Lecture Series

  • Black Art Matters (BAM) Lecture Series

  • Black Art Matters (BAM) Lecture Series

  • A virtual conversation highlighting Black culture, representation, and history featuring leading Black voices in the arts.


    MOCA Jacksonville is pleased to present the virtual lecture series Black Art Matters (BAM), bringing Black art, culture, representation, and history as topics addressed through talks by noted artists, curators, and historians creating, thinking and writing from the heart of the perspective of the African American experience.   

    The BAM series presented its first lecture, by acclaimed artist Hank Willis Thomas, in May 2021, and has featured leading Black voices such as Tschabalala Self, Odili Donald Odita, Ebony G. Patterson and Kalup Linzy. 

    This series is free to the public with the support of The Jessie Ball duPont Fund.


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Featured Participants

Samuel Levi Jones

Samuel Levi Jones

>> Join BAM with Samuel Levi Jones

Samuel Levi Jones is a photographer and multidisciplinary artist who explores the framing of power structures and struggles between exclusion and equality by desecrating... >> Read More 

Radcliffe Bailey

Radcliffe Bailey

>> Join BAM with Radcliffe Bailey

Radcliffe Bailey (b. 1968, Bridgetown, NJ; lives and works in Atlanta, GA) is a painter, sculptor, and mixed media artist who utilizes the layering of imagery, culturally resonant... >> Read More

Shervone Neckles

Shervone Neckles

Shervone Neckles is an interdisciplinary artist, educator, community worker, and artist advocate, who uses repurposed materials and Afro-Caribbean sensibilities to retell histories... >> Read More 

Matana Roberts (Headshots for website)

Matana Roberts

Born in Baltimore in 1970, Derrick Adams is a Brooklyn-based artist whose work spans painting, collage, sculpture, performance, video, and sound. Adams obtained his BFA from the Pratt Institute... >> Read More

Derrick Adams

Derrick Adams

Born in Baltimore in 1970, Derrick Adams is a Brooklyn-based artist whose work spans painting, collage, sculpture, performance, video, and sound. Adams obtained his BFA from the Pratt Institute... >> Read More

Valerie Cassel Oliver

Valerie Cassel Oliver

Valerie Cassel Oliver is the Sydney and Frances Lewis Family Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Previously, she was Senior Curator at the Contemporary Arts... >> Read More

Dr. Kelli Morgan

Dr. Kelli Morgan

Dr. Kelli Morgan is a Professor of the Practice and the inaugural Director of Curatorial Studies at Tufts University. A curator, educator, and social justice activist who specializes in American art and visual culture, her scholarly commitment...  >> Read More

Cameron Shaw Website Profile Squares

Cameron Shaw

Cameron Shaw was appointed Executive Director of the California African American Museum (CAAM) in February 2021, after serving as Deputy Director and Chief Curator since September 2019. A native of Los Angeles... >> Read More

Ebony G. Patterson

Ebony G. Patterson

Ebony G. Patterson received her BFA in painting from Edna Manley College of Visual and Performing Arts in Kingston, Jamaica in 2004. In 2006, she received an MFA in printmaking and drawing from the Sam Fox School of Design... >> Read More

Photo by Daniel Moody. Image courtesy the artist and Monique Meloche Gallery, Chicago.
Odili Donald Odita

Odili Donald Odita

Odili Donald Odita (b. Engu, Nigeria in 1966; lives and works in Philadelphia, PA) is an abstract painter whose work explores color both in the figurative historical context, and in the sociopolitical sense. He is best known for his large-scale canvases... >> Read More

© Odili Donald Odita. Courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York. Photo by Jide Alakija.
Kalup Linzy

Kalup Linzy

Kalup Linzy received his MFA from the University of South Florida. He also attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Linzy has been the recipient of numerous awards, including a grant from... >> Read More

Charles Gaines

Charles Gaines

A pivotal figure in the field of conceptual art, Charles Gaines has long employed a generative process to create series of works in a variety of mediums. By creating space between a specific symbol and the systems applied to its representation... >> Read More

© Charles Gaines. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth. Photo by Fredrik Nilsen.
Tschabalala Self

Tschabalala Self

Tschabalala Self builds a singular style from the syncretic use of both painting and printmaking to explore idea about the black female body. The artist constructs exaggerated depictions of female bodies using... >> Read More

Photo by Chris DeFonte.
María Magdalena Campos-Pons

María Magdalena Campos-Pons

María Magdalena Campos-Pons combines and crosses diverse artistic practices, including photography, painting, sculpture, film, video, and performance. Her work addresses issues of history, memory, gender, and religion... >> Read More

Allison Glenn

Allison Glenn

Allison Glenn is Senior Curator and Director of Public Art at Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (CAMH), where she provides senior leadership encompassing exhibitions, public projects, and artist-driven initiatives in the public realm... >> Read More

Photo by Rana Young

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