Black Art Culture

Charles White Across Media opens to the public on November 7th. The extraordinary artistic legacy of Charles White (1918–1979), one of America's most influential Black artists, takes center stage this fall at the University of Chicago's Logan Center for the Arts. Charles White Across Media: A Visual Archive, opening November 6, explores how White's powerful depictions of African American life extended beyond galleries and museums into popular culture, influencing generation

Halima Taha, Kevin Okeith, Eric Stephenson, and September Gray On Saturday, October 31, author and cultural architect Halima Taha sat down with sculptor Eric Stephenson and artist Kevin Okeith at Bridgeport Art Center for a conversation that closed out Black Fine Art Month, now in its eighth year. Both artists are featured in Decadence Deux, presented by September Gray Fine Art in partnership with Pigment International, another successful collaboration between the two organiz

Beautiful Humanity and Ark of Words IV by Wosene (Photos courtesy of the artist) New York's Skoto Gallery will present a solo booth of ten paintings by Wosene Worke Kosrof at the ADAA Fair, November 12–16, 2026, at the Park Avenue Armory. The show offers collectors, curators, and art lovers another chance to experience an artist whose visual language is unmistakably his own. Born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, in 1950, Wosene earned his MFA from Howard University in 1980. Over de

On Saturday, October 31, September Gray Fine Art and Pigment International present Decadence Deux: An Afternoon of Art & Conversation, featuring author and cultural architect Dr. Halima Taha. Dr. Taha is best known for her groundbreaking bestseller Collecting African American Art Works: Works on Paper, and Canvas, the first book to validate collecting fine art, printmaking, and photography by Americans of African descent as viable assets and commodities within the marketplace

Photos by Isadore Howard and Deleshia Kinney, MD On October 23, 2026, Pigment International brought together an exceptional gathering of artists, collectors, curators, cultural leaders, and institutional representatives at the Logan Center for the Arts at the University of Chicago for Pigmented: Chicago to the World — A Black Fine Art Convening. The caliber of speakers and the depth of audience engagement affirmed the importance of creating spaces where Black art, leadership,

Mayor Brandon Johnson was part of the Beam Raising for the South Side Community Art Center. Dignitaries, community leaders, and supporters gathered Friday, October 23rd, in front of the South Side Community Art Center (SSCAC) to celebrate a major milestone: the beam raising for the nearly $13 million reimagining of the 86-year-old institution. Among those in attendance were U.S. Senator Dick Durbin, Mayor Brandon Johnson, Alderman Pat Dowell, Alderman Lamont Robinson, and DCA

Participants in Chicago to the World Convening this Friday, October 23rd at the Logan Center. One Day, One Room, a Global Conversation This Friday, October 23, Chicago opens its doors to the world. Pigment International’s Chicago to the World convening brings together artists, curators, institutional leaders, and cultural stewards to ask how our city’s creative legacy can travel, and how the world can invest in it in return. The convening is the organization’s culminating eve

Left - Cecilia Hunt and Chris Devins at the celebratory toast for Devins' mural of Richard Hunt. (Photos provided by Chris Devins) By LeeAnn Trotter Chicago’s very first mural of iconic sculptor Richard Hunt - who grew up in Chicago- is now on display in Hyde Park at 54th and Lake Park! “A tribute to Richard Hunt was long overdue,” says artist Chris Devins. Author & public historian, Michelle Duster, approached Devins about creating the mural of the late sculptor after Hunt

Works created by the winners of Ashro's Upward and Onward art competition Amuri Morris and Julia Ferguson Ashro Onward & Upward Artist Showcase has named its 2026 winners under the theme Community. Amuri Morris of Richmond, Virginia, took the Grand Prize for Eternal Embrace, an oil painting about the bond of sisterhood. Morris describes the soft blue as a newfound serenity, with the women cloaked in each other’s arms. Julia Ferguson of Providence, Rhode Island, won the Young

Next up Pigment International’s hosts Chicago To The World, October 23rd at the Logan Center. This powerful half day convening brings together arts groups from across the Midwest to discuss the state of Black art. Featured speakers include Pamela Cullerton, Chicago Sculpture Exhibit, Jon Ott, The Richard Hunt Legacy Foundation, Janice Bond, Chicago Public Art Group, Ra Joy, Bronzeville Center for the Arts, Lisa Coleman, Adler University, and Monique Brinkman-Hill, South Side

Pigment International™, the multimedia platform dedicated to Black contemporary art, is proud to serve as a media partner for the premiere of the North Shore Fine Art Expo, a boutique, curated, original-art-only event arriving at The Orrington Hotel, steps from Northwestern University, November 13–15, 2026. The Expo brings together an eclectic group of contemporary artists from across the United States, many of them exhibiting exclusively in Greater Chicagoland. Every artist

Pigment International dedicates Black Fine Art Month 2026 to the sculptor whose work reached the world and never left home. Richard Hunt with artist Chris Devins who recently completed the hunt mural in Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood. [photo credit Chris Devins] It is fitting and proper that we dedicate Black Fine Art Month 2026 to Richard Hunt. His influence on art was profound and international, yet he remained devoted to his hometown of Chicago, the South Side where he w

Every October, Black Fine Art Month turns a national spotlight on Black artists, galleries, and collectors, honoring a legacy of creative excellence that Pigment International has championed since founding the observance. Throughout the month, look for exhibitions, artist talks, studio visits, and collecting opportunities across Chicago and beyond, each one a chance to support working artists and deepen the public's connection to Black visual culture. Join us for the events

Marquette University's fall exhibitions trace African art and diaspora identity across centuries This fall, the Haggerty Museum of Art at Marquette University opened The Otherworld Is Home, a museum-wide presentation exploring personal reclamation, cultural identity, and spiritual passage across Africa's many diasporas. Inspired by the Yorùbá proverb “Life is a journey, the otherworld is home,” the exhibition unfolds across three simultaneous shows: African Art: Ancient Roots

Candace Hunter's Intentionality opens September 24th The Dan Ryan Expressway carries Chicagoans across the city every day. For artist Candace Hunter, it also marks a rupture. On September 24, Hunter opens Intentionality 1960, Whose Dreams?, an exhibition that asks viewers to look past the familiar story of urban development and confront the communities erased to make it possible. The project begins with a number: 50,831. It represents the estimated number of African Americans

Decadence Deux opened during Third Friday in Bridgeport. Top top middle: work by Eric Stephenson. Top row right: September Gray with work by Preston Sampson. Bottom row left: Marryam Moma and work by Kevin Okeith. Decadence Deux is open. September Gray Fine Art, in partnership with Pigment International, launched the second chapter of Decadence of Another Kind at the Bridgeport Art Center during the building’s Third Friday Open Studios. The exhibition brings together an inter

From top row middle - Artists Howard Simmons, Candace Hunter, Edo, Salome Jaffe and Jesse Howard. The inaugural fair opens at THE MART, October 7–10 Pigment International will exhibit at the first-ever Spectrum Chicago Show, October 7–10 at THE MART (formerly the Merchandise Mart) — a new fair joining Chicago's fall art calendar with an opening night preview and three days of public programming. Pigment's presentation features five artists, listed alphabetically: Edo, Jesse H

Top row middle D. Lamar Preston and Patricia Andrews-Keenan. Right - Gwen Yen Chiu and D. Lamar Preston, past Richard Hunt Award winners, in conversation with Christie's Steven Zick. Bottom row - Gwen Yen Chiu, Steven Zick of Christies and D. Lamar Preston. Middle: a maquette of Preston's work Gifted to Me. Right - Sculptor Eric Stephenson and Naomi Davis, Blacks in Green. Anniversary gala honored Richard Hunt Award winners at Theater on the Lake Chicago Sculpture Exhibit (CS

Middle row right - President of Columbia College Chicago Shantay N. Bolton. Bottom row - Reverend Wheeler Parker, Jr., foreground; background curator Sarah Elizabeth Lewis. An exhibition that imagines a life, not a loss Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago opened "If Emmett Till Lived: Freedom on American Ground" with an emotionally moving convening. The exhibition imagines the life Emmett Till might have lived had he safely returned home to Chicago,

French artist Frank Schroeder's work will be included in Decadence Deux at Bridgeport Art Center opening September 19th. This fall, Pigment International joins September Gray Fine Art for Decadence Deux, the highly anticipated second iteration of Decadence of Another Kind, opening at the Bridgeport Art Center. On view from September 19 through November 6, the exhibition brings together an intergenerational and international group of artists whose work moves across memory, mig