dedicated to emerging curators of color

 

the CCCADI Curatorial Fellowship in Afro-Caribbean Art

About the Fellowship

The Afro-Caribbean Art Curatorial Fellowship is dedicated to curators of color who are committed to the artistic and cultural production of the Caribbean and its Diaspora. This year-long curatorial fellowship provides mentorship, curatorial training, professional development, and institutional support as part of CCCADI’s initiative to galvanize and prepare a new generation of curators and diversify the curatorial ranks in museums and art institutions. The fellowship brings together international curators and scholars from diverse backgrounds and geographies to inspire a robust cross-cultural and interdisciplinary dialogue that elevates Caribbean Art in a global and transnational context.

2022 Curatorial Fellows

The 2022 CCCADI Curatorial Fellows hold tremendous leadership potential in the field of Afro-Caribbean Art and have been selected based on their proposed curatorial and exhibition projects as well as their arts scholarship, publications, and innovative public programs. Our latest cohort of fellows joins the program from Jamaica as part of a special CCCADI partnership with the National Gallery of Jamaica. The goals are to elevate and deepen fellows’ curatorial practice and knowledge of Caribbean/African Diaspora art and culture; advance professional development; and exchange ideas and best practices with notable curators, scholars, artists, and cultural workers about important issues in the field.

 

FELLOWS

  1. Monique Barnett-Davidson

    Curatorial Project: Pon de Cawna

  2. Katrina Coombs

    Curatorial Project: Hybridization

  3. Paula Daley

    Curatorial Project: The New Creatives

  4. Monique Gilpin

    Curatorial Project: ‘Her Flag' ‘No Mans Land' ‘Her Threads’

  5. Kirt Henry

    Curatorial Project: Man of the Cloth: Expressions of Creativity, Ritual and Protest in Jamaica’s Revival

  6. Yulanah Mullings

    Curatorial Project: ‘Si Mi Yah: Here Am I'

Summer Seminar | August 17 - 19, 2022

During the Summer Seminar, fellows are immersed in a week of artist studio visits, public programs, lectures and workshops in curatorial practice on Caribbean Art led by a faculty of notable curators who have organized groundbreaking exhibitions on Caribbean and African Diaspora Art globally. 

Faculty Curators:  Grace Aneiza Ali, O’Neil Lawrence, Marsha Pearce, David Scott, Nicole Smythe-Johnson, Cory Torres Bishop, and Iyawó

The Curatorial Fellowship and Summer Seminar are directed by CCCADI’s Curator-at-Large, Grace Aneiza Ali and co-facilitated by Dantaé Elliott and Kimiyo Bremer.

CCCADI’s dedication to exploring Afro-Caribbean art includes facilitating critical debate with curators of color committed to the artistic and cultural production of the Afro-Caribbean and its Diaspora. Our virtual talk series, Curators in Conversation, is available for viewing on demand. We invite you to check out our past dialogues, below.

Our most recent Curators in Conversation program brought together art critics and curators Suset Sánchez and Aldeide Delgado (Guest Curator of The Abyss of the Ocean: Cuban Women Photographers, Migrations, and the Question of Race) to discuss a history of institutional and independent exhibitions that address the problem of race and racism in Cuba. Guided by discussions on curatorial activism, Sánchez and Delgado discussed the challenges that Cuban curators face within the current socio-political landscape and the use of social media as a space for civil imagination. Grace Aneiza Ali offered Introductions, and Curatorial Fellow Jasmine Chavez Helm, served as the Respondent.

This program was part of the CCCADI digital exhibition, The Abyss of the Ocean: Cuban Women Photographers, Migrations, and the Question of Race.




For more information on CCCADI’s Afro- Caribbean Art Curatorial Fellowship, email curatorial@cccadi.org