In art museums, white supremacy culture functions a lot like a street code. There are certain symbols, figures, and phrases one must know to succeed. However, I’m pretty excellent at back-alley navigation and I’m bringing anti-racist futures into the art world one color block at a time.
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With over ten years of experience as a curator, educator, and activist in the cultural sector, Dr. Kelli Morgan is widely known as a leader in progressive museum practice whose work develops and advances anti-racist approaches to art curation, fundraising, and community engagement. She regularly trains staff and emerging curators at institutions worldwide. She is a leading and influential voice in championing museum practices that are safer for and more responsible to individuals and communities of color.
A native Detroiter, Morgan received her doctorate in African American Studies from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, after receiving her BA in the discipline at Wayne State University. Throughout her career she has remained steadfast in her commitments to Black communities and visual cultures, using her time as a curator of American art to advance curatorial methodologies & interpretive strategies that centered African Diasporic ways of knowing.
She is currently the Founding Executive Director of the Black Artists Archive, a new nonprofit arts organization in Detroit, MI that fosters a nurturing environment for creativity, exhibition, learning, and the preservation of Black art history and visual culture.
