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,

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

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.

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

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

As the nation marks its 250th anniversary, Pigment International steps into the center of the conversation with back-to-back appearances in mid-July that ask the same question from two different stages: who gets to tell America's story? On July 16, Founder and CEO Patricia Andrews-Keenan joins the open mic lineup for "America @ 250: A Journalism Reckoning," hosted by NABJ Chicago and the Field Foundation at Impact House in downtown Chicago. Set against a backdrop of press fre