Hilary Northcraft

ARTE NOIR continues to grow, and we are thrilled to introduce you to Hasaan Kirkland , who has come aboard to assist in managing the gallery space. Hasaan brings to us a wealth of knowledge as a practicing artist, curator, and arts educator. Get to know a little more about Hasaan! From where do you hail? I hail from all over— smile . As a military child, I was born in Bitburg, Germany, and for the first fourteen years of my life, my family and I traveled the world. I was able to see and...

TAKING CARE: EMBRACE WITH TENDERNESS Featuring Kamari Bright, Le’Ecia Farmer, and Annie Marie Musselman Curated by Arielle Simmons   Hedreen Gallery April 10 - June 14, 2025 Artists  Kamari Bright, Le’Ecia Farmer , and  Annie Marie Musselman  demonstrate a nurturing care for others and our one precious world in the works of this group exhibition,  Taking Care: Embrace with Tenderness . Bright viscerally reminds us of the deeply human need for another’s touch with the video poem,  Close Spaces...

"Yours, in much distress." These are the sign-off words from a pleading letter for help to President McKinley by an anonymous Black woman living in Wilmington, North Carolina. They were written in 1898, shortly after the Wilmington Massacre, when a group of white supremacists overtook the state government in a coup, destroying Black businesses and murdering an unknown number of Black residents. In the PBS documentary, American Coup: Wilmington 1898 , scholars and distant relatives gather...