The Black Art Incubator

Taylor Renee Aldridge

Jessica Bell Brown

Kimberly Drew

Jessica Lynne

Lauren Halsey & Antwaun Sargent In Conversation: July 16, 12pm

Art + Money: July 19, 20, 21, August 11

Office Hours (registration required): July 23, August 3, 11

Archive: July 26, 28

Open Crits (registration required): July 27, August 10, 17

Book Swap and Reception: July 28, 6-8pm

The Black Art Incubator is a project that will use Recess’s storefront space as a hub for public programming and the dissemination of resources for artists and arts professionals.

The Black Art Incubator is a social sculpture designed to create an intervention in the “art world” through a series of public events that bring together artists, curators, community members, critics, and scholars. Using collaboration and public engagement as guiding methodologies, The Black Art Incubator will seek to provoke new understandings of the myriad sectors that comprise the contemporary art world.

Modeling itself after an incubator, the project will offer a range of artist-led conversations, critical dialogues, panels, and teach-ins devoted to fostering discourse about community, history, and collaborative cultural production. Visitors will be invited to participate in and contribute to weekly programs including workshops on archives, conversations about art & money, office hours with leaders in the field, and open critique sessions for selected artists; more details about individual events will be available online. Notes, images, and other traces of these programs will accrue in the space, transforming Recess into a spatialized working document.

By developing a vibrant and accessible site and an accompanying set of programs, The Black Art Incubator will give specific form to an art world community—one that is united by a collective, process-based practice of self-care, knowledge-sharing, and discursive exchange.