ADAMA Arts Salon #43
ADAMA Arts Salon is a series of conversations featuring contemporary artists, curators, scholars, and more from across the African Diaspora.
Join us for ADAMA's upcoming in-person Arts Salon featuring Lance Wheeler in conversation with Anitra Terrell, Raianna Brown, and Okorie Johnson.
Join us for ADAMA's upcoming virtual Arts Salon. Aliyah Hasinah to moderate a conversation on the topic of Creating Community, with panelists Kaci Merriwether-Hawkins, and Anderson M. Pilgrim.
About Moderator: Aliyah Hasinah is a curator, documentary director & founder of Black Curatorial.
Kaci Merriwether-Hawkins : A Dallas-based founder and visual storyteller. Within her primary medium of photography, she uses her lens to shed light on the Black experience through portraiture. In July 2022, she founded Black Girls In Art Spaces, a global, multigenerational platform dedicated to communal care through the arts.
Anderson M. Pilgrim: Noted independent curator Anderson M. Pilgrim is President of Diaspora Now Inc., an artist management and exhibition production company; as well as Executive Director of Caribbean Fine Art Fair Barbados, the Caribbean’s only fine art fair held within the region. Mr. Pilgrim grew up on the island of Barbados where he attended Harrison College, and began his career in the arts. During summer 1981, he was part of the stage management of (CARIFESTA) Caribbean Festival of Creative Arts, the preeminent regional arts festival, which was held in Barbados on that occasion. He later attended Baruch College of the City University of New York, graduating with honors in Marketing and Business Management. As US representative for Barbados Investment & Development Corp.’s US Market Development Program from 1999-2008, Mr. Pilgrim was instrumental in developing and propelling the careers of many of the country’s creative talents in the areas of art, fine craft, and fashion. His booth designs and presentations have won several awards over the years including Best In Show, Manchester Art Show, CT; and The Kuumba Award for Booth Design-First & Second Prizes, International Black Buyers & Manufacturers Expo, Washington DC.