Flush With New Success, Black Art Stars Are Reinvesting Their Windfalls in the Next Generation in Ways That Could Permanently Reshape the Art World

From Detroit to New Haven to Dakar, residencies established by Black artists are training artists of color in a way that art schools can't.

Pittsburgh-based artist Alisha Wormsley leveraged the success of her “There Are Black People in the Future” project to secure funding for Sibyl’s Shrine, a local residency for Black mothers. Being able to ”just support each other and and grow together without validation from these guys,” she says, was the end goal; after that, she could use her relationships with local institutions to provide her artist-fellows with industry exposure.

In order to promote the growth of their non-profits, Black artists often have to partner inventively with institutions that have historically not supported people of color—without losing sight of the people they are ultimately managing the relationships for: the artists. 

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