Dome (detail), Lola Flash, 2019. Archival pigment print. Courtesy of the artist © Lola Flash

Peter “Souleo” Wright curates entertaining and informative events, exhibitions, and cultural programs. His focus on education and amplifying underrepresented stories are paramount to his curatorial mission and practice.

Navindren Hodges, Bill Hodges Gallery Director , boasts the gallery’s collection ranges from 19th-century Black artists Henry Ossawa Tanner to modernist, abstraction icon Norman Lewis to contemporaries Willie Cole and Carrie Mae Weems. Image: Demetrius Oliver, Totem, 2004

Anonda Bell is an Australian born, USA based, artist and curator. As the Director and Chief Curator of the Paul Robeson Galleries in Newark, NJ, she continues to make sure the “Radical Voices” in art are seen. Image: Anonda Bell, “Neither Shall You Touch It”, 2013-2014.

Artist Victor Davson’s professional and charismatic leadership has, and continues to have after 35 years, a profound impact on the artistic landscape of Newark and the Tri-State region.

Award-winning playwright, Richard Wesley, shares how the 1970s Black Arts Movement in Newark inspired his contributions to theater, film and books over the past five decades. Image: Scene from his play “The Black Terror”

Join me in a lively conversation with Nell Painter to discover how this brilliant Newark transplant uses her artistic talents to “disturb the peace”. Image: Nell Painter, 3g. Motherwell in the Adirondacks 17, 2016

Filmmaker Ernest Dickerson, directing Raised By Wolves in Cape Town, South Africa, shares how growing up in Newark, NJ continues to inform his filmmaking career. Image: Abubakar Salim in ‘Raised by Wolves’,

Art advisor and art collector, Roger C. Tucker III, shares with his daughter, Ara, how growing up in Newark informed his evolving art practice. Artwork: George Sheffield, Facing Abstraction.