Artist Dennis Shelton Shelton, based in Yonkers, creates assemblages, collages, and mixed media artwork.  Every Black artist must answer the questions posed in this call for reflection for him/herself. This is my answer. This will be the first full year without my grandmother, Mineola D. Smith, who spent her entire 103 years in Alabama and was on that same historic bus with Rosa Parks. Once I realized my grandmother was no longer here, it made me reflect on her generation. I

Artist Reggie McFly McFly’s work captures ‘extraordinary people living ordinary lives’. His work “Goldie” shows the defiant pose of Goldie Williams who was charged with vagrancy, a broad law used to criminalize the poor and marginalized.  Honestly my expectation for this year is to have none. I want to continue sharing and embracing the world with my heart, without worrying about how the work is received, and trusting that it will find the right people and the right places.

Artist Kevin Williams and Dontae T. Muse at the Pigmented Black Fine Art Faire. Muse , based in Newark, NJ, is the founder of Black Art Gallery Tour (BAG) Tour and Black art advocate. by Dontae Muse If I could condense my predictions for the Black art market heading into 2026 into one sentence, it might look like this: Black collectors will stop asking for permission from white markets and develop our own art spaces dedicated to our artists. What’s unfolding isn’t a trend, a