La Vaughn Belle: The Haunting Between Us presents a counter narrative that haunts the Royal Danish Archive photographs from the Danish colonial period in the West Indies. LaVaughn Belle disrupts the hierarchies in the colonial images with cuts and burns transforming these construed images. The sculpture Sovereign (How to Pull a Spear from the Throat) reminds us that rebellion and resistance was waged by the indigenous peoples of the West Indians as well as Africans. As she says, “The haunting is a call to decolonization and the dismantling of systems that keep us fragmented.” Belle works in various disciplines making “invisible the unremembered through exploring the material culture of colonially creating narratives from fragments and silences.” This exhibition is a collaboration between the Carlos Museum and CAUAM with a companion exhibition ”Come Ruin or Rapture” on display at the Carlos Museum.

Come Ruin or Rapture, on view in the Carlos Museum’s John Howett Works on Paper Gallery through December 8, includes work from two of La Vaughn Belle’s series, Storm (in the time of spatial and temporal collapse) and Storm (how to imagine the tropicalia as monumental) where she uses materials from her studio that were exposed to Hurricane Maria in 2017.

The Alchemist’s Notebook is an exhibition I curated featuring work of Black Kirby, a pseudonym for two black comic book creators, John Jennings and Stacy Robinson.

This is a 2024 exhibition I co-curated with my good friend and colleague, Dr. Fahamu Pecou, on the artwork of Dr. Pellom McDaniels, III.

This 2024 exhibition is a survey of black speculative fiction authors from the late 18th century to the late 20th century. The rare books were selected from Emory University’s special collections.