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Black Copper Black Copper is a multidisciplinary arts organization based in NYC, dedicated to innovation, collaboration, and equity within the art world.

A biannual digital magazine—spotlighting emerging artists, explores compelling narratives in the art world.

Nydia Blas works in the space between memory and myth. Her photographs don't document — they reconstruct. Drawing from f...
10/09/2026

Nydia Blas works in the space between memory and myth.

Her photographs don't document — they reconstruct. Drawing from family history, Black feminine experience, and the surreal, she builds images that exist somewhere between what happened and what's still being carried.

Her work is in Sacred Roots, Issue No. 4.
Explore more here: https://wix.to/NisNftd



Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral is live.Phillis Wheatley's collection — the first published book by an Af...
10/07/2026

Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral is live.

Phillis Wheatley's collection — the first published book by an African American, and the second published by an American woman — is now available through BLACK COPPER.

Purchase here: https://wix.to/TkTK1Vc

Tsoku Maela uses his own body as the primary site of inquiry. His practice — photography, digital media, moving image — ...
09/29/2026

Tsoku Maela uses his own body as the primary site of inquiry.

His practice — photography, digital media, moving image — navigates identity, mental health, ancestral knowledge, and the spiritual dimensions of African selfhood. His series Abstract Peaces used self-portraiture to confront and destigmatise mental illness. His work since has continued to move between the personal and the philosophical, the body and what lies beyond it.

He is the cover artist of Sacred Roots, Issue No. 4 — and the right note to close on.

Explore Tsoku’s work here: https://wix.to/QNlly6t



Steven Baboun's practice spans photography, video, performance, and multimedia installation — rooted in Haitian identity...
09/26/2026

Steven Baboun's practice spans photography, video, performance, and multimedia installation — rooted in Haitian identity and the textures of diasporic life.

From Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and based in New York City, his work has been exhibited at the Bronx Museum, Photoville, and Contemporary-L in Seoul. He holds an MFA in Photography from Parsons.

A portion of his print sales supports OTRAH — Organisation Trans d'Haïti.

Explore his work here: https://wix.to/IRltqNw



"I have many homes, but none that intrinsically and fully represent who I am." — Kipkemoi Henke, Sacred Roots, Issue No....
09/24/2026

"I have many homes, but none that intrinsically and fully represent who I am."

— Kipkemoi Henke, Sacred Roots, Issue No. 4

Read the full interview at https://wix.to/ZeqbXFt



Early access to new publications. First look at new works on BLACK COPPER Market. Upcoming exhibitions worth your attent...
09/22/2026

Early access to new publications. First look at new works on BLACK COPPER Market. Upcoming exhibitions worth your attention. Events, programs, and everything happening at BC — before anywhere else.

The BC Monthly. Subscribe at www.blackcopper.org.

Carla Jay Harris starts with a photograph and builds an environment. Her practice — photography, installation, collage, ...
09/19/2026

Carla Jay Harris starts with a photograph and builds an environment.

Her practice — photography, installation, collage, drawing — investigates how psychological space shapes who we understand ourselves to be. History is never static in her work. It's a room you can walk into, rearrange, and leave differently than you entered.

Her work is in Sacred Roots, Issue No. 4.
Explore her work here: https://wix.to/mPL72ip



Mayowa Nwadike works in charcoal and acrylic, but what he's really examining is the space between what we show and what ...
09/17/2026

Mayowa Nwadike works in charcoal and acrylic, but what he's really examining is the space between what we show and what we carry.

His portraits centre Black emotional life — vulnerability not as weakness, but as the precise place where identity actually lives. Quiet compositions with a lot underneath them.

"The mother never forgets her child."

Read his interview here: https://wix.to/c4TrMRb



"Every stolen artifact in a European museum is a page torn from our history book."— Victor Ehikhamenor From Decolonizing...
09/15/2026

"Every stolen artifact in a European museum is a page torn from our history book."
— Victor Ehikhamenor

From Decolonizing Art Museums — a Perspectives piece in BC's editorial archive. Read it here: https://wix.to/xL7fDgj

Delita Martin's work centres Black women — not as subjects to be observed, but as vessels of spiritual and historical me...
09/12/2026

Delita Martin's work centres Black women — not as subjects to be observed, but as vessels of spiritual and historical memory. drawing, she constructs what she calls veilscapes: environments where the physical and spiritual exist in the same space.

She doesn't make portraits. She builds sites of remembrance.

"Black women have historically been marginalized and made small—physically and symbolically—so I work large to shift the power dynamics in the room."

Read Delia’s interview, here: https://wix.to/rzLdQ4H



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