2025-26 Richard Hunt Awardee D. Lamar Preston A significant new opportunity for sculptors has officially launched. Chicago Sculpture Exhibit (CSE), in partnership with the Richard Hunt Legacy Foundation, is accepting applications for the 2027 CSE Richard Hunt Award, honoring one of Chicago’s most influential and internationally acclaimed artists. The award will support an emerging or mid-career sculptor in creating a new work for installation at a prominent Chicago location.

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

Top Row: Cultural Impact Award was given to Lavett Ballard; work by Dwight White and Marryam Moma. Middle Row: Pigment’s Allison Casselberry and Patricia Everett with Norman Teague; Cow Horn Sculpture by Teague, Paul Bacardi Smith’s Watermelanin. Third row: Chicago in Indy; Work by Lavett Ballard and Nyzere Dillon. The 6th Annual BUTTER Fine Art Fair returned to Indianapolis Labor Day Weekend, continuing its evolution as one of the country’s most consequential artist-centere

Issue VI of Pigment International's award-winning magazine issue lands this September, and it is one of our most ambitious editions yet. Inside, readers will find a profile of designer Norman Teague, whose furniture and architectural work continues to reshape how Chicago sees Black craftsmanship. The issue also spotlights Chicago artists connected to the Obama Presidential Center, tracing how the campus is emerging as a new anchor for the city's creative community on the Sout

Stephen Marc, Untitled, from Changing Chicago Project, 1988. Gelatin silver print. Courtesy: Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago. The Museum of Contemporary Photography (MoCP) invites the public to a day of programming marking the opening of If Emmett Till Lived: Freedom on American Ground, an exhibition curated by Dr. Sarah Elizabeth Lewis and Reverend Wheeler Parker, Jr., Emmett Till's cousin, close friend, and last surviving witness to his 1955 k

Heads/Hearts/Hands by Candace Hunter and In the Land of the Free by Reggie McFly. Both works are headed to museum exhibitions. Flag reinterpretations from Candace Hunter snd Reggie McFly move to museum exhibitions Two artists whose work has moved through Pigment International's galleries are now commanding national attention. Candace Hunter, whose piece Heads/Hearts/Hands from Glory! Glory! — Pigment's exhibition reimagining the American flag through Black artists' eyes — has

Artists Jesse Howard, Edo, and Reggie McFly in conversation with D. E. Simmons to close out the exhibition Revolutionary at Vjosa Cafe. Revolutionary closed the way it opened — in conversation. At Vjosa Café & Events in Bridgeport, artists Jesse Howard, Reggie McFly and Edo joined Pigment International founder Patricia Andrews-Keenan and D.E. Simmons of Diaspora Rhythms for a closing-night talk that moved from craft to calling. Edo (Eddie Santana White) went deeper into his o

Bronzeville Center for the Arts launches “From The Ground Up” in partnership with the Milwaukee Art Museum and Chipstone Foundation The Bronzeville Center for the Arts (BCA) has announced From The Ground Up, a new national speaker series bringing leaders who have built some of the world's most significant cultural institutions to Milwaukee for candid conversations about vision, resilience and legacy. Presented with the Milwaukee Art Museum and the Chipstone Foundation, the se

Phyliss North, Rhonda Sewell and Patricia Andrews-Keenan during the Museum Leaders Meet & Greet at the Vjosa Café in Bridgeport during Pigment International’s exhibition Revolutionary. On Friday, August 14, Pigment International welcomed a distinguished group of museum professionals and DEI practitioners to Vjosa Café & Events in Bridgeport for an intimate meet-and-greet focused on Black art, cultural leadership and the work of building more inclusive museum spaces. Organized

The Pigment International art team - Barrett Keithley, Patricia Andrews-Keenan, Brenda Dickerson, Amorion Bell and Phyliss North; Dickerson and Fred Hampton Jr. view the mural; Barrett Keithley and Ray Thompson, whose University of Iowa number is on the basketball court at Wharton Elementary School; Dickerson and her mother Delilah and with April Kates-Ellison with the Nubian Nine an d The Lights On Collective. (photo credit Doug Kenney) A ribbon cutting at Argo Park marked

What if the Black home could be read as a museum—one filled not with objects behind glass, but with the furniture we inherit, photographs we keep, textiles we make, books we read, and traditions we pass from one generation to the next? That question sits at the center of AfroBohemian Home: An Installation by Zsudayka Nzinga, opening September 2 at the Gregory Allicar Museum of Art at Colorado State University. Curated by Louise Cutler, the exhibition transforms the gallery in

Above: Norman Teague in conversation with Pigment International will be one of the featured artists at this year's Butter Art Fair; Bottom row: Bianca Marks will be a curator for Butter. Middle and right, Truss Chair and Ibaaka AKA Mule by Norman Teague Design Studios. (Teague image by Big_X_Tsu. Furniture images courtesy of Norman Teague Design Studio) Guest curator Bianca Marks helps shape an expanded Labor Day weekend fair in Indianapolis, as Teague's full profile debuts i

Edo will be in conversation with D. E. Simmons about his series C.O.L.O.U.R.S. exploring racism in animation this Friday at Vjosa Cafe. Board games, good company, and a conversation that matters — that's the lineup for Pigment International's Revolutionary Game Night on Friday, August 14, from 6 to 9 p.m. at Vjosa aCafe 1010 W. 35th Street in Bridgeport. Bring your competitive spirit for an evening of games, then settle in for a special artist talk with longtime Pigment colla

Improvisations in Color” brings new works by the Ethiopian-born painter to Oakland, marking the centennial of jazz legend John Coltrane OAKLAND, CA — Thelma Harris Art Gallery welcomes summer's close with its signature White Linen Afternoon on Saturday, August 22, from 2:00 to 5:00 p.m., celebrating the opening of Improvisations in Color: Wosene Worke Kosrof Celebrates Coltrane. The exhibition, on view through October 25, presents a new body of work by the internationally acc

Monetta White, executive director of MoAD (bottom right) visited Chicago last week Monetta White, Executive Director of the Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD) in San Francisco, brought her vision for Black artistic economic empowerment to Chicago this summer, meeting with Pigment International and a gathering of local artists and arts leaders, including Monique Brinkman-Hill, Executive Director of the South Side Community Art Center.  White's visit centered on building na

Seminal artist Betye Saar Betye Saar, the artist who turned cigar boxes, washboards, and family heirlooms into some of the most incisive statements in American art, died July 26 in her Laurel Canyon home, four days shy of her 100th birthday. For seven decades, Saar was assemblage's most fearless practitioner. She did not simply collect discarded objects; she indicted them. Her 1972 work The Liberation of Aunt Jemima seized a servile stereotype and armed it with a rifle and a

Freedom Monument Sculpture Park features 'Strike" by Hank Willis Thomas From coast-to-coast exhibitions to an outdoor pilgrimage in Alabama, here's how to build culture into your summer plans. Summer doesn't have to mean putting culture on pause. This season, some of the most compelling exhibitions in the country are celebrating Black artistry — and a little planning turns any trip into a pilgrimage worth taking. On the West Coast, the Museum of the African Diaspora in San Fr

Top: Barrett Keithley, Cassandra Wilson, Patricia Andrews-Keenan and Edo; Middle: Edo; Bottom: Ruby Simmons and Gyamfuah Melisiziwe; Right: Jesse Howard. Photos by Tafari Melisiziwe The conversation continues at REVOLUTIONARY, Pigment International's thought-provoking summer exhibition at Vjosa Café & Events. Curated by P. Andrews-Keenan, the exhibition features an extraordinary roster of painters, photographers, and mixed-media artists whose work examines 250 years of Black

The mural and pavilion refresh at Wharton Elementary in Summit's Argo Park arrives in time for the 85th Anniversary of Emmitt Till's birth. For the past six months, the Village of Summit has demonstrated what can happen when artists, residents, and community organizations come together with a shared vision. Through the Creative Placemaking Initiative, funded by Cook County Arts, local partners have worked to reimagine public spaces while placing community voices at the center

Remembering Dion Clarke, who passed away this Tuesday. His Harlem Fine Arts Show (HFAS) celebrated its 18th Anniversary this February, and its first iteration in the Hamptons this weekend. The passing of Dion E. Clarke, Founder and CEO of the Harlem Fine Arts Show (HFAS), leaves an immeasurable void in the world of Black art. He used what he learned working with other Black art visionaries and turned it into the nation's largest traveling exhibition dedicated to artists of th