Top row left Ra Joy, Executive Director of BCA, artists Della Wells and Evelyn Patricia Terry, Pigment's Patricia Andrews-Keenan, curator Phoenix Brown, artist and art advocate Freida High W. Tesfagiorgis, and artist Mutópe Johnson; Works from the exhibit Building Bronzeville. Bottom row middle Brad Pruitt, Executive Director Milwaukee African American Holocaust Museum and Tina Johnson, President African American Art Alliance at the Milwaukee Art Museum. Bronzeville Center fo

Ra Joy, Executive Director Bronzeville Center For The Arts (BCA) This year America will celebrate its semi-quincentennial and the signing of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. As the nation reflects on its founding, it also finds itself wrestling with fundamental questions around what we choose to remember, who we choose to honor, what we collectively celebrate, and why it all matters. With America’s 250th birthday rapidly approaching, the stakes are high. Poli