Black Artists in Mexico | With Leslie King-Hammond, Lizzetta LeFalle-Collins, Kimberli Gant, and Dalila Scruggs. Introduction by Jennifer Farrell

Join us for a panel discussion on Black artists in Mexico with a focus on the recent Elizabeth Catlett exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum and the exhibition Witnessing Humanity: The Art of John Wilson which was organized by the MFA Boston (on view Feb 8 - June 22, 2025) and The Metropolitan Museum of Art (opening September 2025).

Jennifer Farrell is the Jordan Schnitzer Curator of Drawings and Prints at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. She joined the department in 2014 after holding curatorial positions at the Yale University Art Gallery, the University of Virginia, and the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program.

Dr. Leslie King-Hammond is an artist, curator and art historian, and the founding Director of the Center for Race and Culture at the Maryland Institute College of Art, where she is also Graduate Dean Emeritus.

Lizzetta LeFalle-Collins is an independent art curator and founding staff curator of visual arts at the California African American Museum in Los Angeles. She is the author of Seasons at Lakeside Dairy; Family Stories from a Black-Owned Dairy (2024) and her work has been published in Print Quarterly, Black Renaissance Noire, and Journal of American Studies.

Kimberli Gant, PhD, is Curator of Modern & Contemporary Art at the Brooklyn Museum. She formerly served as the McKinnon Curator of Modern & Contemporary Art at the Chrysler Museum and as a Mellon Doctoral Fellow in the Department of Arts of Global Africa at the Newark Museum.

Dalila Scruggs is the Augusta Savage Curator of African American Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum.