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Black Visual Archive (BVA) is dedicated to the documentation and review of contemporary black and post-black visual culture. Founded in 2010 by Meg Onli, BVA is a collection of critical writings that contextualizes the work of African American artists through historical and visual history. Based in Chicago, BVA investigates the city as a unique site for black visual culture with articles, reviews, and interviews that have surveyed the works of Kerry James Marshall and Theaster Gates while also reflecting on the defining archives of Johnson Publishing Company and Numero Group. With a particular interest in how contemporary artists mine the complex history of black representation in America, BVA will continually reflect and link works within their sociocultural constructs.
Submissions:
Black Visual Archive gladly accepts submissions on a rolling basis for individual and series themed posts. Please submit an abstract of 250 words proposing the topic of your essay or interview and one previous writing sample. Final submissions, abstracts, and writing sample should be emailed to blackvisualarchive@gmail.com. Please submit all materials as PDF files.
All content that is selected for posting will go through an editing process for content, grammatical, and spelling errors. All edits will be shared with the author.
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Black Visual Archive is written by Meg Onli
Edited by Gracen Brilmyer