Center for Afro Cultural Exchange

02/25/2026

I’m excited to share more about my newest curatorial project, Through Her Lens: Caribbean Image Makers, an exhibition bringing together six powerful lens-based artists: Brenda Hernández Díaz, Qurissy, Sonia Báez, Tameshia Glass, Alex Majerus, and Lisa DuBois. These artists have Caribbean backgrounds and connections to Haiti, Barbados, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic, grounding the exhibition in multiple island histories and diasporic experiences.

Through photography and lens-based practices, their work explores memory, migration, ritual, race, gender, and belonging. The images function as visual archives—documenting ancestral presence, everyday life, cultural survival, and the layered realities of Caribbean communities across geographies. Moving between documentary and conceptual approaches, the artists reflect on how identity is shaped by movement, inheritance, and lived experience.

I warmly invite friends, colleagues, artists, students, and community to join us for the opening reception and celebrate these extraordinary women image-makers. It would truly mean a lot to see familiar faces in the room and share this moment together.

Opening Reception: Friday, February 27
Time: 6:00–8:30 PM
Location: Puerto Rican Arts Alliance, Chicago

Let’s gather in celebration of Caribbean women, diaspora storytelling, and the power of the lens.

07/14/2025

06/26/2025

The one many can’t stop talking about today⬇️

The returned items include bronze statues of a bird, a warrior king, a cockerel, and a wooden ancestral head originally taken from the Kingdom of Benin during the late 19th century colonial raids.

Some of the artifacts were symbolically handed over to the Oba of Benin in Edo State, where they were first looted over a century ago, per the BBC.

📸: AFP

06/20/2025

05/24/2025