The Forman Arts Initiative hired its first executive director, Adjoa Jones de Almeida, to shape their vision for an exhibit and engagement space centering their vast art collection and local community. Just don’t call it a museum.

Odili Donald Odita draws on a unique combination of traditional African art, minimalism, and pop art influences in his abstract paintings that respond to contemporary social issues.

Pap Souleye Fall plays with serious themes in multifarious spaces — comic cons, a waste recycling facility—here more about his practice in our Art For Change series.

Fiber artist Cait McCormack’s sculptures defy expectations of what can be done within the centuries-old tradition of crochet. The latest in a collaboration with Forman Arts Initiative.

In going from art student to sculptor to ceramicist to curator to podcaster, Gerald Brown has been an advocate for and supporter of Black and Brown artistry — and a keen observer of the artistic process

At 25, Philadelphia artist Nazeer Sabree has gained a national reputation for his complicated portraits of young Black men and women.