Cerebral Women Art Talks Podcast

Ep.262 Kathia St. Hilaire. Born in West Palm Beach, USA, Lives and works in New York. Informed by her experience growing up in Caribbean and African American neighborhoods in South Florida, the artist seeks to memorialize the communities that she has been a part of through innovative printmaking techniques. Her work draws inspiration from Haitian Vodun flags, which are used to tell the country’s history and honor ancestral spirits. Using nontraditional materials such as beauty products, industrial metal, fabric or tires, she creates ornate tapestries that seek to preserve the Haitian history and Vodun religion that lives around us in Miami. Kathia St. Hilaire received her M.F.A. in Painting and Printmaking at the Yale School of Art in New Haven, Connecticut and her B.F.A. in Printmaking at the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, Rhode Island. Her work has recently been featured in solo shows at the Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA; Perrotin, New York, NY; and the NSU Art Museum Ft. Lauderdale, Ft. Lauderdale, FL; as well as group exhibitions at the Speed Museum of Art, Louisville, KY; The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs; Half Gallery, New York; Blum & Poe, New York; and James Fuentes, New York. Photo credit: ©Photo Claire Dorn. Courtesy of the artist and Perrotin Perrotin https://www.perrotin.com/fr/artists/kathia_st_hilaire/954#news https://leaflet.perrotin.com/view/1216/the-vocals-of-the-chaotic-burst Beaux Arts https://www.beauxarts.com/expos/a-la-galerie-perrotin-la-jeune-kathia-st-hilaire-regarde-vers-lhistoire-haitienne/ Speed Art Museum https://www.speedmuseum.org/exhibitions/current-speed-kathia-st-hilaire-invisible-empires/ NYTimes https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/22/arts/american-museums-galleries-art-guide.html NSU Art Museum https://dailyartfair.com/exhibition/17305/kathia-st-hilaire-perrotin Culture Type https://www.culturetype.com/tag/kathia-st-hilaire/ Artfrofest https://artfrofest.com/visit/curators-eye-kathia-st-hilaire-vocals-chaotic-burst/?srsltid=AfmBOorzMbsps9gdivbbc0wWqO-1y3muLS93dRuf_UmpHii1rm_-vJ-0 Ocula https://ocula.com/art-galleries/perrotin/exhibitions/kathia-st-hilaire/ e-flux https://www.e-flux.com/announcements/611610/kathia-st-hilaireinvisible-empires Daily Art Fair https://dailyartfair.com/exhibition/17305/kathia-st-hilaire-perrotin France24 https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/arts24/20260113-artist-kathia-st-hilaire-s-deceptively-delicate-visions-of-chaos-and-resistance Sortiraparis https://www.sortiraparis.com/arts-culture/exposition/articles/340085-kathia-st-hilaire-une-exposition-engagee-a-la-galerie-perrotin Slash https://slash-paris.com/critiques/kathia-st-hilaire-galerie-perrotin Actuart https://www.actuart.org/2026/01/kathia-st.hilaire-the-vocals-of-the-chaotic-burst.html Amelie du Chalard https://www.amelieduchalard.com/ Franceinfo https://la1ere.franceinfo.fr/monde/outremer/expo-l-artiste-kathia-saint-hilaire-explore-les-blessures-d-haiti-pour-parler-du-monde-1669956.html Mudam https://www.mudam.com/collection/kathia-st-hilaire

Tiffanie Delune. Born in Paris, France in 1988 and living now in Montpellier in the South of France, she has exhibited internationally in Europe, North America, West Africa and Asia. Her solo exhibitions include “The Geography of Feelings”, Gallery 1957, London, United Kingdom (2024), “There's Gold on the Palms of My Hands”, Gallery 1957, Accra, Ghana (2023), “See Me Flowing”, Band of Vices, Los Angeles, United States (2022), “There's Gasoline in My Heart”, Foreign Agent, Lausanne, Switzerland (2022) and “Seeds of Light”, Ed Cross Fine Art, London, United Kingdom (2020). She has also participated in numerous group exhibitions including: “Sacred Movements”, Galerie Christophe Person, Brussels, Belgium (2025), “Alchemical Gestures”, Galerie Revel, Bordeaux, France (2025), “The Fabric of Life”, Paul Smith, London, UK (2024), “A Spirit Inside”, Compton Verney, Warwickshire, United Kingdom (2024) and The Lightbox, Woking, Surrey, United Kingdom (2023), “Touching the Sky”, Mucciaccia Contemporary, Rome, Italy (2023), “In and Out of Time”, Gallery 1957, Accra, Ghana (2023), “Unlimited”, Gallery 1957, Accra, Ghana (2022), “The Storytellers”, Gallery 1957, London , United Kingdom (2022), “Mother Nature”, The Core Club, New York, United States (2022), “Her Dark Materials”, With Eye of the Huntress, London, United Kingdom (2021) and “In the Midst of All That Is”, Band of Vices, Los Angeles, United States (2021). In 2023, Tiffanie Delune was in an art residency with Gallery 1957 in Accra, Ghana. In 2022, the artist was nominated to the Norval Sovereign African Art Prize 2023 and in 2021 to the Reiffers Art Initiatives in Paris, France. Her work has notably been published in the Financial Times, The New York Times, The Evening Standard, Cultured Magazine and Frieze Magazine and has covered the medical publication Ethics & Human Research, The Hastings Center, Garrison, NY, United States (2023), the poetry books Open Leaves poetry collections — Poems from Earth, Harryette Mullen, Black Sun Flowers Poetry, London, United Kingdom Photo credit: Ninon de Buyl Artist https://tiffaniedelune.com/ Christophe Person https://www.christopheperson.com/artworks/2121-tiffanie-delune-morph-x-2025/ Gallery 1957 https://www.gallery1957.com/artists/82-tiffanie-delune/ Art Paris 2026 https://www.artparis.com/fr/artist/112715 | https://www.artparis.com/en/gallery/3485 Drawing Now https://www.drawingnowparis.com/en/exhibitors/christophe-person/ Galerie Revel https://www.galerierevel.com/exhibitions/26-alchemical-gestures-tiffanie-delune-kartini-thomas-kimia-ferdowsi-kline-alymamah/ Cultured Mag https://www.culturedmag.com/article/2021/07/08/tiffanie-delune/ C& https://www.contemporaryand.com/fr/events/tiffanie-delune-theres-gasoline-in-my-heart SHOWstudio https://www.showstudio.com/news/frieze-highlights-how-spirituality-and-geometry-coalesce-in-tiffanie-delunes-exhibition Asakan https://asakan.art/tiffanie-delune-je-ne-cherche-ni-a-plaire-ni-a-menfermer-je-souhaite-uniquement-appeler-au-reve-a-lemotion-a-la-question-et-au-dialogue-entre-les-mondes-et-limaginaire/ Artnet https://www.artnet.fr/artistes/tiffanie-delune/ Mucciaccia https://mucciaccia.com/it/tiffanie-delune/

Ep.260 Stephanie Sparling Williams is the Andrew W. Mellon Curator of American Art at the Brooklyn Museum. Before coming to the Brooklyn Museum, she was the Associate Curator at the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, and a Visiting Lecturer in Art History and Africana Studies at Mount Holyoke College. Prior to her appointments at Mount Holyoke, she was the Assistant Curator at the Addison Gallery of American Art, and in 2016-2017, she was the John Walsh Fellow at the Yale University Art Gallery. Sparling Williams has taught interdisciplinary courses on American Art, Art and African Americans, Latinx Art, and Museums and Exhibitions at Phillips Academy, Andover; the University of Massachusetts, Lowell; Eastern Connecticut State University, and Mount Holyoke College. She also holds the 2026 Anschutz Distinguished Fellowship in American Studies at the Effron Center for the Study of America at Princeton University. Her curatorial practice is predicated on interdisciplinary research, writing, and teaching on American art, and foregrounds Black Feminist space-making. Her scholarly work is invested in the space of the museum, with a focus on African American art and culture, and the work of U.S.-based artists of color. Related interests include material histories, cross cultural exchange, strategies of address, and contemporary art that engages with the history of the United States. Sparling Williams holds a M.A. and Ph.D. in American Studies and Ethnicity, and a certificate in Visual Studies from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. She holds a B.A. in Fine Art and Ethnic Studies from the University of Colorado in Boulder. Sparling Williams has published a monographic study on feminist conceptual artist Lorraine O’Grady, and over two dozen academic articles, reviews, and catalogue essays. Her book on O’Grady, Speaking Out of Turn: Lorraine O’Grady and the Art of Language (UC Press 2021), was awarded 32nd Annual James A. Porter Book Award. Her recent work, Toward Joy: New Frameworks for American Art reimagines how contemporary audiences experience historic American art. Disrupting traditional presentations of art from the Americas and offering a new set of approaches to collection display and interpretation, this groundbreaking reinstallation and accompanying publication reframes 2,000 years of art drawn from the world-renowned holdings of the Brooklyn Museum.

Ep.259 April Bey by Phyllis Hollis

Ep.258 Born in Moscow in 1986, Yulia Bas pursued fine art studies from an early age. After earning her architecture diploma, she made the move to Western Europe. Today, she resides in Barcelona, Spain. In 2008 she and her partner established a successful yacht design studio. Shortly after they relocated to Italy first, then to Spain. Several years ago, after more than a decade in design she rekindled her passion for art, engaging in private study and collaborations with artists, curators, and art historians. Yulia has forged partnerships with international galleries, showcasing her work in solo and group exhibitions, including a display at Christie's London, as well as participating in various art fairs. Her works are being acquired for the collections around the world. Artist https://www.yuliabas.com/ Galerie LeRoyer https://www.galerieleroyer.com/fr/artists/35-yulia-bas/ Gillian Jason Gallery https://www.gillianjason.com/artists/57-yulia-bas/ G.Gallery https://www.g.gallery/about Glogauair https://glogauair.net/open-studios/december-2023/yulia-bas/ Luisa Catucci Gallery https://www.luisacatucci.com/yulia-bas-2/ Art Cat https://www.setmanadelart.cat/esdeveniment/yulia-bas-caminaboires/

Ep.257 Robert Garland is currently the Dance Theatre of Harlem Artistic Director. Mr. Garland was a member of the Dance Theatre of Harlem Company achieving the rank of principal dancer. After creating a work for the DTH School Ensemble, Arthur Mitchell invited Robert Garland to create a work for The Dance Theatre of Harlem Company and appointed him the organization’s first Resident Choreographer. He was also Director of the Professional Training Program of the DTH school, and the organization’s webmaster. In addition to choreographing several ballets for DTH, Mr. Garland has also created works for New York City Ballet, Britain’s Royal Ballet, Oakland Ballet and many others. His commercial work has included music videos, commercials and short films, including the children’s television show Sesame Street, a Nike commercial featuring New York Yankee Derek Jeter, the NAACP Image Awards, a short film for designer Donna Karan, and the “Charmin Cha-Cha” for Proctor and Gamble. Mr. Garland holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree from the Juilliard School in New York City. Photo Credit: Nir Arieli Robert Garland https://www.dancetheatreofharlem.org/people/robert-garland/ Dance Theatre of Harlem in Paris https://www.dancetheatreofharlem.org/dthinparis/ Pointe Magazine https://pointemagazine.com/robert-garland-dance-theatre-of-harlem/#gsc.tab=0 New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/24/arts/dance/robert-garland-dance-theater-of-harlem.html San Francisco Classical Voice https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/24/arts/dance/robert-garland-dance-theater-of-harlem.html National Arts Center https://nac-cna.ca/fr/bio/robert-garland Dance Consortium https://danceconsortium.com/resources/choreographer/robert-garland/ Pulse Kenya https://www.pulse.co.ke/story/the-ballet-world-needs-robert-garland-why-isnt-it-calling-2024082008555077311 Yale https://schwarzman.yale.edu/artist/robert-garland Bach Track https://bachtrack.com/performer/robert-garland News Tank Culture https://culture.newstank.fr/article/view/264305/etats-unis-robert-garland-directeur-artistique-dance-theater-of-harlem.html Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Garland_(choreographer)

Ep.256 Otis Kwame Kye Quaicoe is a Ghanaian-born, Portland-based painter whose work moves quietly but with immense presence. Born in Accra in 1988, he trained at the Ghanatta College of Art and Design in Ghana before relocating to Portland, Oregon in 2017 where he continued to develop his distinctive visual language. His luminous oil portraits have been exhibited internationally, from Los Angeles to Sydney, and his work is included in major museum collections and group shows across the United States and Europe. What began as an exploration of figurative painting evolved into a deliberate visual language rooted in identity, embodiment and cultural narrative. Quaicoe has spoken about how his move from Ghana to the United States deepened his awareness of how Black bodies are seen, read and experienced in different cultural contexts. This awareness, he explains, informs how he paints presence, gaze and posture. Vangart https://vangart.fr/otis-kwame-kye-quaicoe/ Lex Weill https://weillgallery.com/artists/41-otis-kwame-kye-quaicoe/biography/ Zongville Appreciation Series https://zongoville.com/blogs/news/otis-kwame-kye-quaicoe-24-12-2025 Russo Lee Gallery https://www.russoleegallery.com/artists/otis-kwame-kye-quaicoe Roberts Project https://www.robertsprojectsla.com/artists/otis-kwame-kye-quaicoe Zara https://www.zara.com/us/en/search?searchTerm=otis%20kwame%20kye%20quaicoe§ion=WOMAN Artsper https://www.artsper.com/fr/artistes-contemporains/ghana/98535/otis-kwame-kye-quaicoe Almine Rech https://www.alminerech.com/exhibitions/8892-otis-kwame-kye-quaicoe-superficial-incisions Juxtapoz https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/magazine/features/otis-kwame-kye-quaicoe-you-re-in-america/ Rubell Museum https://rubellmuseum.org/2021-otis-kwame-kye-quaicoe Deeds Magazine https://www.deedsmag.com/stories/in-conversation-with-exhibitor-otis-kwame-kye-quaicoe-about-pharrells-upcoming-femmes-group-exhibition-in-paris

​Kandy G Lopez (b. 1987, New Jersey) is a multidisciplinary artist exploring cultural identity, representation, and power through fiber art, portraiture, painting, and mixed media. Born to Dominican parents, she draws from her experience navigating multiple cultural landscapes. Kandy G Lopez holds a BFA in Painting and a BS in Marketing/Management from the University of South Florida and earned her MFA in Painting from Florida Atlantic University in 2014. Her background in both fine arts and business informs her meticulous material investigations and strategic engagement with art institutions. She is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication, Media, and Arts at Nova Southeastern University, where she integrates critical theory with hands-on material practice. Photo credit: Jade Lily Artist https://www.kandyglopez.com/ ACA Gallery https://acagalleries.com/artists/kandy-g-lopez/ Hyperallergic https://hyperallergic.com/kandy-g-lopez-situational-identity-new-works-in-fiber-aca-galleries/ Armory Art Center https://armoryart.org/event/past-the-eyes-artist-talk-kandy-g-lopez/ Colossal https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/05/kandy-g-lopez-embroidered-portraits/ Fondation Florence https://www.fondationflorence.fr/espacecult Vogue https://www.vogue.com/article/kandy-g-lopez-textile-truths-faces-of-resilience-aca-galleries Orlando Museum of Art https://omart.org/artwork/kandy-g-lopez-installation-view-from-the-florida-prize-in-contemporary-art/ Riverside Art Museum https://riversideartmuseum.org/exhibitions/kandy-g-lopez-invisible-threads-2/ Out Clique https://www.outclique.com/layers-you-can-see-inside-the-art-of-kandy-g-lopez/ Canvas Rebel https://canvasrebel.com/meet-kandy-g-lopez/ Bold Journal Magazine https://boldjourney.com/meet-kandy-g-lopez/ Meer https://www.meer.com/en/99807-textile-truths-faces-of-resilience Visual Arts Center of Richmond https://www.visarts.org/blog/blog/2024/a-conversation-with-visiting-artist-in-residence-kandy-g-lopez/ Luxe Source https://luxesource.com/article/artist-kandy-g-lopez VR Art Platform https://vrallart.com/artist/kandy_g_lopez/ Craft Council https://craftcouncil.org/articles/the-queue-kandy-g-lopez/

Ep.254 Trevyn McGowan is the co-founder of Southern Guild gallery in Cape Town and Los Angeles, representing contemporary artists from Africa and its diaspora. Over the past two decades, she has dedicated her career to provoking and propelling art and design across the continent by empowering makers both creatively and commercially, elevating the production and presentation of work, and fostering an ethos of community. Trevyn and her husband and business partner, Julian McGowan, pioneered Africa’s collectible design category with the establishment of Southern Guild in 2008, specialising in unprecedented modes of making, cross-disciplinary collaborations, and the ingenuity of the human hand. With the gallery as their primary focus, they have expanded Southern Guild’s programme to encompass contemporary art across multiple media and form cross-continental dialogues between artists. Works by the gallery’s artists are in the collections of museums including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, LACMA, Art Institute of Chicago, Philadelphia Museum of Art and National Gallery of Victoria. Born in Johannesburg in 1967, Trevyn graduated with a degree in dramatic arts from London’s Royal Central School of Speech and Drama and pursued a successful stage, film and television actress for 10 years. She founded Site Specific, a creative interiors agency which she ran for seven years before returning to live in South Africa in 2003. The McGowans established a number of brands and platforms to promote Africa’s creative sector, including GUILD Design Fair, the Design Foundation and the export agency Source (now renamed Design Network Africa), which supplies handcrafted homeware to global retailers. Their pioneering vision earned them places on USA Art + Auction magazine’s ‘POWER 100’ list of the most influential players in the global art world, City Press newspaper’s 100 World Class South Africans and Fast Company’s Most Creative People in Business. Headshot Image courtesy of Jorge Meza and Southern Guild Gallery https://southernguild.com/ Trevyn and Julian McGowan open New location https://southernguild.com/news/southern-guild-announces-new-tribeca-gallery-opening World African Artists Unite https://waau-art.com/events/southern-guild-presents-the-artists-kamyar-bineshtarigh-alex-hedison-bonolo-kavula-romeo-mivekannin-zanele-muholi-ziziphonposwa-and-dominique-zinkpe-at-frieze-new-york/ Artforum https://www.artforum.com/news/cape-towns-southern-guild-to-launch-first-us-gallery-in-la-252964/ Cultured Magazine https://www.culturedmag.com/article/2024/02/22/southern-guild-los-angeles-gallery/

Ep.253 features Jules BE KUTI, a young emerging artist born in 1993. His art reflects his experience as a Black person living in France, as well as his reflections on the challenges faced by Black individuals in society. Growing up in France, Jules was inspired by the richness of Black culture. He uses his art as a vehicle for intimate reflection, allowing him to explore the dynamics of memory and identity in a globalized world where national and cultural boundaries are increasingly blurred. Jules's works highlight archetypes and scenes from everyday life, each capturing emotions, experiences, and stories through the use of multiple colors. Jules's work is a celebration of diversity, offering a unique perspective on exploration and how diversity can be used to express and exalt our common humanity. Photo credit courtesy of the artist Artist ~ https://julesbekutiart.wordpress.com/ The Bishop Gallery ~ https://thebishopgallery.com/reminder-the-children-are-our-future/ Silent Gallery ~ https://silentgallery.art/artists/34-jules-be-kuti/ Artfacts~ https://artfacts.net/artist/jules-be-kuti Sugarcane Mag ~ https://sugarcanemag.com/2025/05/what-sold-at-the-11th-annual-1-54-in-new-york/ Prazzle ~ https://www.prazzleinc.com/editorial/1-54-art-fair-returns-to-new-york-highlights-and-exhibitions-to-look-out-for Movout Gallery ~ https://movartgallery.com/artist/jules-be-kuti/ The Blk Prspctv ~ https://www.theblkprspctv.com/p/jules-be-kuti-untitled-year-unknown

Ep.252 Howardena Pindell was born in 1943 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and lives and works in New York. She has exhibited extensively, including selected solo exhibitions at Fruitmarket, Edinburgh, UK, touring to Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, UK, Spike Island, Bristol, UK, and Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (2022–23); Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland (2022); The Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Texas (2022); The Shed, New York, touring to Oklahoma Contemporary, Oklahoma City (2021–22); Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois (2018); Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta, Georgia (2015); Cleveland Institute of Arts, Ohio (1994); Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut (1989); The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York (1986); Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama (1985); A.I.R Gallery, New York (1983); and Rockefeller Memorial Galleries, Spelman College, Atlanta, Georgia (1971). Selected group exhibitions include The Kitchen, New York (2024); Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark (2024); Museum of Modern Art, New York (2023); National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (2022); Guggenheim Bilbao, Spain, touring to Centre Pompidou, Paris (2021); Tate Modern, London, touring to Brooklyn Museum, New York and Broad Museum, Los Angeles, California (2017–19); Brooklyn Museum, New York (2017); Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Austria, touring to Museum Brandhorst, Munich, Germany (2016); Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas (2013); Seattle Art Museum, Washington (2009); Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California (2007); and The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York (2006). Credit: Howardena Pindell, 2018, Photo © Nathan Keay White Cube https://www.whitecube.com/gallery-exhibitions/howardena-pindell-hong-kong-2024 Garth Greenan https://www.garthgreenan.com/artists/howardena-pindell MoMA https://www.moma.org/artists/4625-howardena-pindell NYTimes https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/06/09/t-magazine/howardena-pindell.html | https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/16/arts/design/howardena-pindell-shed-video.html Fruitmarket https://www.fruitmarket.co.uk/howardena-pindell/ Stony Brook University https://www.stonybrook.edu/commcms/art/people/faculty-staff/howardena-pindell

Ep. 251 Cheryl Pope is an interdisciplinary visual artist who questions and responds to issues of identity as it relates to the individual and the community, specifically regarding race, gender, class, history, power, and place. Her practice emerges from the act and politics of listening, and recently introduces a novel material to explore the artist’s memories. Referencing the familiar repertoire of the French Post-Impressionist, Intimist, and Imagist paintings, Pope recreates deeply personal recollections that cinematically compose the silent complexities of beautiful and tragic oscillations between love and loss in our everyday lives. Images of couples are drawn from memory, referencing the artist’s own relationships and moments of disconnect, anxiety, and desire, while beach scenes depicting a mother and child accentuate a tender stillness of caregiving. In these scenes, the figures exist in a nest of choreography–a rotating stage of mystery, tragedy, and poetry of day-to-day living with feelings of presence and absence woven throughout.     Pope received her MA in Design (2010) and BFA (2003) from the School of the Art Institute, Chicago, IL, where she is an Adjunct Professor.  Pope has had recent solo exhibitions at moniquemeloche, Chicago, IL (2022, 2019); The Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, KS (2022); Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL (2019); Galleria Bianconi, Milan, Italy (2019); Andres Guerrero Gallery, San Francisco, CA (2018); and Fort Gansevoort, New York, NY (2017). Notable group presentations include Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, East Lansing, MI (2023); The FLAG Art Foundation, New York, NY (2023 2021); Everson Museum, Syracuse, NY (2023); Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, MI (2022); Weinberg/Newton Gallery, Chicago, IL (2022); Skin in the Gamecurated by Zoe Lukov, Chicago, IL (2022); Fountainhead, Miami, FL (2021); Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA (2021); Virginia MOCA, Virgina Beach, VA (2021); and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL (2020). Pope’s work will be included in the upcoming group exhibition Get in the Game: Sport and Contemporary Culture at SFMoMA in 2024. Pope’s work is in the collections of Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville, FL; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL; UBS Art Collection, New York, NY; Joan Flasche Artists Book Collection, Chicago, IL; Seattle Art Museum, WA; Honolulu Museum of Art, HI; Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA; Poetry Foundation, Chicago, IL; DePaul University Art Museum, Chicago, IL; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA; Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD; United States Embassy, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic; The Jackson West Memorial Hospital, Miami, FL; and The Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, KS. She has been the recipient of several awards and fellowships, including the Public Artist Award, Franklin Works, Minneapolis, MN (2017); Selected Artist, Year of Public Art, Chicago Cultural Center, IL (2017); Mellon Fellowship, Kenyon College, Gambier, OH (2016); and 3Arts Award, Chicago, IL (2015). Pope lives and works in Chicago, IL and Miami, FL. Artist https://www.cherylpope.net/ monique meloche https://www.moniquemeloche.com/artists/35-cheryl-pope/works/ Hyperallergic https://www.moniquemeloche.com/press/492-talking-a-big-game-the-art-of-sports/ | https://www.moniquemeloche.com/press/280-artists-on-basketball-and-its-discontents/ Art Daily https://www.moniquemeloche.com/press/451-the-baltimore-museum-of-art-announces-approximately-75/ Observer https://www.moniquemeloche.com/press/437-early-sales-and-excitement-at-art-basel-miami/ The Guardian https://www.moniquemeloche.com/press/430-strike-fast-dance-lightly-largest-ever-boxing-exhibition/ BOMB https://www.moniquemeloche.com/press/420-cheryl-pope-by-carolina-wheat/ Chicago https://www.moniquemeloche.com/press/406-fall-fashion-artists-in-their-natural-habitats/ Reader https://www.moniquemeloche.com/press/418-chicago-is-a-protest-town/

Ep.250 Valerie A. Francis is the Founding Director of Knowhere Art Gallery, an independent gallery based on Martha’s Vineyard dedicated to showcasing emerging and mid-career artists from diverse backgrounds. The gallery champions inclusive narratives and celebrates the cultural intersections that shape contemporary art today. With a career that bridges global technology innovation and entrepreneurial ventures in the arts, Valerie brings a rare and dynamic blend of strategy, creativity, and cultural insight to every endeavor she leads. Originally trained as an artist, Valerie earned a BFA in Fine Arts from Hunter College CUNY and later an MBA from Rutgers University, specializing in Marketing. Her professional journey took a transformative turn when she entered the world of global healthcare technology at Sanofi, where she rose to serve as a Technology Head leading digital strategy and analytics for teams across North America, Latin America, and Asia. Immersed in a melting pot of cultures and perspectives, she thrived on the diversity and camaraderie forged across continents. Valerie’s unwavering commitment to her artistic roots led her to co-found Knowhere Art Gallery in 2019 — a haven where creativity flourishes and artists find their voice. Since its inception, the gallery has achieved remarkable success, becoming a destination for collectors and cultural leaders alike. Under her curatorial direction, Knowhere has presented more than twenty-five exhibitions and introduced the work of over thirty artists. Signature moments include its participation in SCOPE Art Fair (2021–2023) and an acclaimed presentation during the 60th Venice Biennale in 2024 with A Common Thread That Binds Us. As a board member of Artists for Humanity in Boston, Valerie has further committed her passion to action, supporting youth empowerment through creativity and entrepreneurship. She is also dedicated to mentoring artists, cultivating private and corporate art collections, and building institutional collaborations that elevate voices from across the art world. Valerie often describes the founding of Knowhere—conceived on Martha’s Vineyard, where she met her partner—as “the nexus of Knowhere,” a place where art, identity, and knowledge converge. Through her work, she continues to sow the seeds of cultural legacy and foster environments where art becomes a catalyst for discovery, connection, and transformation. Website https://knowhereart.com/ 1-54 2025 NYC https://www.1-54.com/new-york/exhibitor-list/knowhere-art-gallery/ artcloud https://artcloud.market/show/knowhere-art-llc-women-rising MV Arts & Ideas https://www.mvartsandideas.com/2024/07/the-road-to-enlightenment-starts-at-knowhere/ Vineyard Gazette https://vineyardgazette.com/news/2024/05/05/knowhere-gallery-showcased-venice-biennale Vineyard Visitor https://vineyardvisitor.com/2024/08/08/art-in-oak-bluffs/knowhere-gallery/ Martha’s Vineyard Times https://hype.co/@themarthasvineyardtimes/2z7j289w | https://www.mvtimes.com/2024/06/12/meets-eye-knowhere-art-cousen-rose-galleries/ Martha’s Vineyard Arts and Ideas https://www.mvartsandideas.com/2024/07/the-road-to-enlightenment-starts-at-knowhere/ Artsy https://www.artsy.net/partner/knowhere-art

EP.249 Onay Gutierrez is a multifaceted artist, collector, and preservationist with a rich background that spans education, ceramics, and historic preservation. Born in Veracruz, Mexico in 1977, Gutierrez began his career as an early elementary school teacher in marginalized communities in his home state. After immigrating to the United States, honed his skills as a ceramic artist. Gutierrez has a deep connection to the Penland School of Craft in the mountains of North Carolina, where he has been a student, patron, and now serves as a board member. This connection has likely influenced his artistic growth and commitment to the craft community. In addition to his artistic pursuits, Gutierrez is a passionate advocate for historic preservation. Alongside Jeffrey Childers PhD, he has restored three National Historic Places in Raleigh, NC. His commitment to art and social justice is further evident in their founding of the Gutierrez Collection, a contemporary art collection that explores themes of mental health, LGBTQ+ rights, Latin and Latinx identities, African and African diasporic cultures, women's art, and activism. The Gutierrez Collection has gained significant recognition, with its first museum exhibition currently on view at the Cameron Museum of Art in Wilmington, NC, until September 7th, and set to travel to the NC Museum of Art's Winston-Salem campus this fall. Through his work, Gutierrez continues to make a lasting impact on the art world, historic preservation, and social justice initiatives. Photo credit: Courtesy of the artist Cameron Art Museum https://cameronartmuseum.org/exhibition/we-belong-here-the-gutierrez-collection/ The Endowment https://theendowment.org/event/cameron-art-museum-cam-after-dark-conversation-with-the-collectors-onay-gutierrez-and-jeffrey-childers/ ArtSuite https://artsuite.com/blogs/community/onay-gutierrez?srsltid=AfmBOopGnj0zCHXUCInnV8PELmUsyhmVUyW0VCdcYlMRTou3JVRDdagM Issuu https://issuu.com/ncartmuseum/docs/spring_24_preview_web North Carolina Museum of Art https://ncartmuseum.org/collection/museum-collection/new-acquisitions/ Penland School of Craft https://www.givecampus.com/schools/PenlandSchoolofCraft

Ep. 248 Adrienne L. Childs is an independent scholar, art historian, and curator. She is Senior Consulting Curator at The Phillips Collection. Her current book is an exploration of Black figures in European decorative arts entitled Ornamental Blackness: The Black Figure in European Decorative Arts, published by Yale University Press. She is currently co-curator of Vivian Browne: My Kind of Protest for The Phillips Collection. She recently co-curated The Colour of Anxiety: Race, Sexuality and Disorder in Victorian Sculpture at The Henry Moore Institute in Leeds, England. She was the guest curator of Riffs and Relations: African American Artists and the European Modernist Tradition at The Phillips Collection in Washington DC, 2020. In April 2022 The High Museum of Art awarded Childs the 2022 Driskell Prize in recognition of her contribution to African American art and art history. Childs co-curated The Black Figure in the European Imaginary at The Cornell Fine Arts Museum at Rollins College in 2017. She is co-editor of the volume essays Blacks and Blackness in European Art of the Long Nineteenth Century, Routledge. She also contributed an essay on art and activism to Volume V, part II of The Image of the Black in Western Art edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and David Bindman. As former curator at the David C. Driskell Center at the University of Maryland she curated many exhibitions including Her Story: Lithographs by Margo Humphrey; Arabesque: The Art of Stephanie Pogue; Creative Spirit: The Art of David C. Driskell and Tradition Redefined: The Larry and Brenda Thompson Collection of African American Art. Childs holds a BA from Georgetown University, an MBA from Howard University and a PhD in the History of Art from the University of Maryland. Photocredit: Rodrigo Salido Moulinié  Website https://www.adriennelchilds.com/ Phillips Collection  Vivian Browne: My Kind of Protest |The Phillips Collection https://www.phillipscollection.org/sites/default/files/2025-04/phillips-collection-presents-vivian-browne-my-kind-of-protest-press-release.pdf  https://www.phillipscollection.org/press/phillips-collection-presents-multiplicity-blackness-contemporary-american-collage https://www.phillipscollection.org/event/2020-02-28-riffs-and-relations-african-american-artists-and-european-modernist-tradition Ornamental Blackness https://www.ornamentalblackness.com/ The Driskell Center https://driskellcenter.umd.edu/news/former-driskell-center-curator-adrienne-childs-phd-wins-2022-driskell-prize High Museum https://high.org/driskell-prize/adrienne-l-childs/ The Clark https://www.clarkart.edu/fellow/detail/adrienne-childs-(1) Courtauld https://courtauld.ac.uk/whats-on/reconsidering-riffs-and-relations/ Columbia University https://abolitionism.universityseminars.columbia.edu/people/adrienne-l-childs The Wadsworth https://www.thewadsworth.org/event/public-lecture-pearl-drops-and-blackamoors-the-black-body-and-pearlescent-adornment-in-european-art-with-adrienne-l-childs/ ARTnews https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/adrienne-l-childs-david-c-driskell-prize-high-museum-1234620561/ Culture Type https://www.culturetype.com/tag/adrienne-l-childs/Enfilade  https://enfilade18thc.com/2024/09/20/lecture-adrienne-childs-on-pearl-drops-and-blackamoors/ MontclairArt Museum https://www.montclairartmuseum.org/press/press-room/montclair-art-museum-presents-landmark-exhibition-century-100-years-black-art-mam Portland Museum https://www.portlandmuseum.org/eventscalendar/2021-bernard-osher-lecture Journal Panorama https://journalpanorama.org/article/riffs-and-relations/ AHNCA https://ahnca.org/event/the-colour-of-anxiety-race-sexuality-and-disorder-in-victorian-sculpture/

Ep.247 Jas was born in Hartford CT. His talent for drawing was recognized at an early age. He sold his first painting at age seven and had his first one-man show at the age of eight. He went on to receive numerous awards and later went to study at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia. Jas currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NYC. Photo Credit: Damian Griffiths ~ Fugue 21,2022-2023 Oil on linen 183 x 228.7cm Artist https://www.jasknightfineart.com/ White Hot Magazine https://whitehotmagazine.com/articles/solitary-figures-paintings-jas-knight/3231 Entrée to Black Paris https://www.entreetoblackparis.com/blog/josephine-baker-portrait-unveiled-at-u-s-ambassadors-residence Studio Museum in Harlem https://www.studiomuseum.org/artists/jas-knight Metropolitan Museum https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/898079 | https://www.metmuseum.org/perspectives/copyist-jas-knightJas Knight books https://www.jasknightfineart.com/trichromatic-book| https://www.jasknightfineart.com/the-art-of-the-master-copy Smithsonian Institute https://menofchange.si.edu/exhibit/artist-pairings/jas-knight/ ArtRabbit https://www.artrabbit.com/events/jas-knight-terrain YRB Mag https://yrbmag.com/tag/jas-knight/ MFA Boston https://www.mfa.org/press-release/fashioned-by-sargent Long Gallery Harlem https://www.long.gallery/ Art Facts https://artfacts.net/artist/jas-knight/538698

Ep.246 Kelly Sinnapah Mary (b. 1981, Saint-François, Guadeloupe) creates paintings, sculptures, and installations that draw upon the complex interrelationships between folklore, literature, inheritance, history, and the natural world. Sinnapah Mary’s work is rooted both materially and narratively in the artist’s immediate environment of the Caribbean archipelago of Guadeloupe, a French overseas department, and her own evolving understanding of her ancestral origins. Her work has been shown both in Guadeloupe and internationally at institutions including Kunstinstituut Melly, Rotterdam, Netherlands; Peréz Art Museum Miami, Miami, FL; Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi, India; and the Osage Foundation, Hong Kong. Photo © Kelly Sinnapah Mary, 2025. Image courtesy of the artist and James Cohan, New York. Photo by Studio Zaigo Artist https://kellysinnapahmary.wixsite.com/kelly-sinnapah-mary James Cohan https://www.jamescohan.com/artists/kelly-sinnapah-mary Kadist https://kadist.org/program/the-plantation-plot/ Hyperallergic https://hyperallergic.com/997002/the-shapeshifting-paintings-of-kelly-sinnapah-mary/ Aicon https://www.aicon.art/exhibitions/kelly-sinnapah-mary Cultured Mag https://www.culturedmag.com/article/2025/03/06/artist-kelly-sinnapah-mary-painting ICI https://curatorsintl.org/about/collaborators/23413-kelly-sinnapah-mary Artnet News https://news.artnet.com/art-world/rising-artist-kelly-sinnapah-marys-spellbinding-works-take-center-stage-2616158 Foyer https://readfoyer.com/article/india-guadeloupe

Ep.245 Natia Lemay (b. 1985 in Toronto, Ontario) was raised in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, and is based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Her Interdisciplinary autoethnographic practice reflects her lived experience. Through personal stories, she interrogates the intersections between the mind, the body, and space to understand how these experiences relate to a broader cultural context. Natia Lemay has exhibited widely throughout North America. The artist was selected for the 2024 Fountainhead residency in Miami and the 2022 Royal Drawing School Residency in Dumfries, Scotland. She was awarded the National Trust Prize at Expo Chicago 2024, with her work acquired by High Museum in Atlanta in addition to being collected by the Art Gallery of Ontario, The Minneapolis Institute of Art, The Minnesota Museum of American Art, The North Dakota Museum of Art and The Montclair Museum of Art. She received her BFA from Ontario College of Art and Design in 2021 with a minor in Social Sciences and her MFA from Yale School of Art in 2023. Photo Credit is Gesi Schilling: Fountainhead Artist Residency Artist https://www.natialemay.com/ Whitehot Magazine https://whitehotmagazine.com/articles/her-first-nyc-solo-show/5792 Fountainhead Arts https://www.fountainheadarts.org/fhtv/artists/natia-lemay Juxatpoz https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/magazine/features/natia-lemay-the-act-of-being-seen/ Perrotin https://www.perrotin.com/artists/natia_lemay/1335#biography Galerie Nicolas Robert https://www.gallerynicolasrobert.com/natia-lemay Hyperallergic https://hyperallergic.com/851029/miami-fountainhead-residency-2024-selected-artists/ Ocula https://ocula.com/art-galleries/wilding-cran-gallery/artworks/natia-lemay/these-strange-girls-will-radiate-in-our-darkness/ Culture Type https://www.culturetype.com/tag/natia-lemay/ New American Paintings https://www.newamericanpaintings.com/artists/natia-lemay

Tomokazu Matsuyama. Born in 1976 in Gifu, Japan, Matsuyama is currently based in Brooklyn, New York. His work spans painting, sculpture, and installation, organically blending and reimagining diverse elements–such as ancient and modern, figurative and abstract, Eastern and Western. His art reflects both his cross-cultural experiences and the evolving nature of contemporary society in our information-driven world. Major public art projects include the Bowery Mural (New York, USA, 2019), Hanao (JR Shinjuku Station East Square, Tokyo, 2020), and Wheels of Fortune (Meiji Shrine, Tokyo, 2020, part of the Jingu Gaien Art Festival). Recent notable exhibitions include Mythologiques (Venice Biennale, 2024), MATSUYAMA Tomokazu: Fictional Landscape (Hirosaki Museum of Contemporary Art, 2023), and MATSUYAMA Tomokazu: Fictional Landscape (Shanghai Powerlong Museum, 2023). His work was also featured in Pop Forever. Tom Wesselmann &… at Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris (2024–2025). Please visit cerebralwomen.com for his expanded bio. Photo credit: Fumihiko Sugino Artist https://matzu.net/ Pen Magazine Taiwan https://www.matzu.net/media/press/pen-4/ GQ https://www.matzu.net/media/press/gq/ FT https://www.matzu.net/media/press/financial-times/ Bazaar https://www.matzu.net/media/press/harpers-bazaar/ Legend https://www.matzu.net/media/press/legend/ Hypebeast https://www.matzu.net/media/press/hypebeast-4/ Hypeart https://www.matzu.net/media/press/hypeart/ Juxtapoz https://www.matzu.net/media/press/juxtapoz/ Galerie https://www.matzu.net/media/press/galerie-magazine/ Artforum https://www.matzu.net/media/press/artforum/ Kinari https://www.matzu.net/media/press/kinari/ Takashimaya-salon https://www.matzu.net/media/press/takashimaya-salon/ Mythologiques https://www.matzu.net/media/tomokazu-matsuyama-mythologiques/ Almine Rech https://www.alminerech.com/artists/7720-tomokazu-matsuyama Kavi Gupta https://kavigupta.com/artists/95-tomokazu-matsuyama/ First Last https://www.tomokazu-matsuyama-firstlast.jp/english/ Wynwood Walls https://thewynwoodwalls.com/artists/tomokazu-matsuyama/ Kotaro Nukaga https://kotaronukaga.com/en/artist/tomokazu_matsuyama/ Avante Arte https://avantarte.com/artists/tomokazu-matsuyama Hidden Champion https://www.matzu.net/media/press/hidden-champion/ BKMag https://www.bkmag.com/2024/08/06/the-art-of-tomokazu-matsuyama-from-the-streets-of-nyc-to-big-shows-in-paris-and-venice/

Jose Duran (b. 1979, Moca, Dominican Republic) is a painter, designer, and sculptor creating fantastical worlds of cosmopolitan opulence and sumptuous, even dangerous foliage. Duran’s practice is anchored in extensive research of practices of survival, celebration, vengeance, sabotage, and aspirational desires in Black communities. He draws from baroque and rococo interiors to create scenes of architectural lavishness and femininity, producing complex compositions anchored in whimsy and play. Duran centers Black feminine figures as a reclamation of their contributions to European markers of taste, and as retribution for their forced labor under colonial rule. Duran’s fantasies retrospectively place Black women at the center of his lavish interiors, where they reap the fruits of their labor. His practice is an ode to the dreams and aspirations of his late mother, who, between the Bronx and the Dominican Republic, would imbue in the artist a taste for cosmopolitanism and beauty. Photo credit: Nelson Castillo Artist https://joseduran.studio/ Hannah Traore Gallery https://hannahtraoregallery.com/exhibition/aleluya/ James Fuentes https://jamesfuentes.com/exhibitions/elena NY Times https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/10/style/roze-traore-hannah-traore-gallery.html Art Speak https://www.artspeak.nyc/home/2024/2/13/jose-duran Island Origins Magazine https://islandoriginsmag.com/dominican-artist-jose-duran-aleluya/ Arthap https://arthap.com/hap/opening-jose-duran-aleluya/ Idiom Studio https://idiomastudio.com/jose-duran-caught-between-fantasy-reality/